Milking it….
Fonterra – what’s going on!? Sensationalised and done to death by the media, yes, but dear me – it seems they really did have no process in place to deal with a possible contamination – no way to identify where a contaminated batch had come from – no “recall plan” ready to roll out at a moment’s notice and so on and so on. Ditto re communications – no apparent foresight of such an event and no “damage control” plan prepared and packaged and ready to go. Unbelievable!
I haven’t bought their products for years – something they put in the stuff gives me – and a lot of other people – crippling stomach pains. We’ve had no explanations about how the stuff, which in it’s natural state goes off in a day or two, manages to last so long nowadays – an expiry date a week or two hence and it still pours smoothly into one’s coffee for days after that. And if it really is just a matter of being treated with extra heat then one has to ask if there are any nutrients left?
There are stories that it has inulin added. Inulin is a natural product which occurs in small amounts in some plants – it is most often extracted from the chicory plant. However tests show that where people were given inulin at the high levels present in milk and other milk products – like ice cream and packaged cheesecake – they suffered stomach pains or indigestion.
So why aren’t people made aware that this stuff is added? And why is it permitted to market something as a natural food as long as the additives are natural? When people thing “natural milk” they think of milk as it comes out of the cow – not milk that might have any number of “natural” substances added – some of which people might be sensitive or allergic to!?
Then there’s the green slime they add to the stuff now – a whey product that used to be thrown away but which is now added back into the milk. I’m told some people can see the “green” – perhaps that’s why they brought out the bizarre “lightproof” bottle? Do we not already have milk cartons? Are they not light proof? At least they don’t have the horrible “plastic” taste that the old bottles and, I believe, the new ones have.
I don’t know anyone who was worried about sunlight getting into their milk. I know quite a few who are worried about the lack of light shining upon Fonterra and it’s practices.
Rubytoos 