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Sound Off: Let’s have a frank discussion about organic milk (without being mean or bullying anyone!) Do you buy organic milk or organic food products? Do you have a selective list of organic products you buy or do you go all the way with organic eating? How has this impacted your health or your grocery bill?
My husband and i buy organic milk, actually the one right on your picture there! We buy it because he read a book “Fast Food Nation” that is about the processing and gross stuff they do to our foods. What they do to non-organic milk grossed him out so much we had to switch. That’s the only organic thing we buy, though. At some point, when we have more money, i’d like to buy more organic products.
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I don’t buy organic milk. I just can’t justify the extra expense. The two main reasons I’ve read for going with organic milk are growth hormones and antibiotics.
Well, there is absolutely no way to test to see if milk came from a cow that was given growth hormones–the milk is identical to that from cows not treated with it. And if a cow is sick and treated with antibiotics, the farmer is required to dump the milk from that cow until the course of antibiotics is done–so antibiotics aren’t getting into the milk supply.
Given that the two main reasons I’ve seen for going with organic aren’t compelling to me (given the above), I don’t see it to be worth the extra cost.
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I do not buy milk, but I do buy organic yogurt.
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Hi Amy!
Our one and only consistently organic grocery item is milk. With two little girls, I am just not ok with them drinking all those hormones, etc… So many girls are developing at an earlier and earlier age and one can’t help but wonder if all those hormones are impacting this.
Since we drink lots of milk – I’ve decided this is one thing I’m committed to. And, I think it is better for ME too.
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We do buy organic milk for our daughter, because I am concerned with the possibility that BGH hormones contribute to early-onset puberty in girls. It is more pricey, but this is one area in our grocery budget where we spend more. Until she is two, she’s drinking whole milk; I’m not sure what we’ll do when she reaches that age. We do have a “rewards card” from the local dairy when we turn in all the glass bottles we’ve accumulated: x number of them equals a free bottle.
We also save by buying “regular” milk for the rest of the family – DH doesn’t drink it, and I figure it’s too late for me.
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We buy the Horizon DHA added organic milk for our daughter, and try to buy other organic food for her as well (but it’s not a MUST for everything). For ourselves we buy if it’s not super expensive.
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I buy organic milk, and any other organic product that I can; such as tofu and yogurt, fruits and vegetables, etc. I prefer to give my fami;y the best that I can give.
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We buy organic milk just because it seems the safe thing to do and the right thing to do for my family.
We don’t drink A LOT of milk and so it’s not a cost thing for us.
I’m not sure if we were a large milk drinking family if I could afford it. Yet lately, the organic milk has NOT been that much more then the regular milk in my area.
Thanks for doing this topic!
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We buy organic milk just because it seems the safe thing to do and the right thing to do for my family.
We don’t drink A LOT of milk and so it’s not a cost thing for us.
I’m not sure if we were a large milk drinking family if I could afford it. Yet lately, the organic milk has NOT been that much more then the regular milk in my area.
Thanks for doing this topic!
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We are on the Gluten Free Casein Free diet because of allergies and intolerances, but we have found we can tolerate goat and sheep milk. I have found a local source of free raw goat’s milk, a treasure trove for our family! I am planning on attempting to make my own yogurt, cheese, and european style butter from this, also saving us tons of money.
We do buy organic whenever we can. If my budget is tight, I wlll not waver on buying organic garlic, onion, potatoes, and yams since non-organic means that there is a root growth inhibitor on it that will actually make calcium less availble for absorption by your body. We also try to stick with organic when buying any of the “dirty dozen” (the foods most likely to absorb large amounts of pesticide into the part you eat)
We are planting a garden with seeds from Bountiful Gardens to help save on our food bill this next year, and I plan on doing a lot of canning this growing season!
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We have recently started buying organic raw milk from a local dairy. We don’t drink a lot of milk so I usually use half of it to make yogurt. I trust the local dairy more than buying Horizon or the other organic brands. I figure the less processing, the better.
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The only product I consistnetly buy organic is milk. I limit my kids intake to 3 cups per day to help with expenses. I just can’t feel right about non-organic milk both for my kids and for the animals. I’ve found that Fred Meyer’s has the cheapest organic milk at $4.99 per gallon, so that is the only place we buy it.
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We buy organic milk for our daughter and ourselves. We also buy organic juice and other products for her. We are blessed with a good produce market that has good prices for organic produce. I always buy the organic “dirty dozen”. We are blessed to have an organic garden and buy what we don’t grow at a sustainable green market during the growing season.
I think that it is a very personal decision and for my family we buy as much organic as we can afford and don’t worry about the rest.
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I buy regular milk with the label “From Cows Not Treated with rBST*” For the * the explanation is: “No significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST-treated and non rBST-treated cows.” It costs the same as milk without the label but it’s not available at all stores. I suppose I could work organic milk into my budget…will research the differences and benefits.
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