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As lactose intolerant I have come to find the EU policy of vast overproduction of dairy problematic. Milk powder is stocked like crude oil reserves and used to
by ganzuul 7y ago
As lactose intolerant I have come to find the EU policy of vast overproduction of dairy problematic. Milk powder is stocked like crude oil reserves and used to influence the market, not only in the EU but also abroad. Cattle farming in Africa can not find a foothold because European products are subsidized so heavily using money lifted from EU taxes. Instead, they compete with substandard yogurt made from milk powder and palm oil.
Milk powder gets added to all kinds of foods it does not belong in because it is too cheap, and I suffer for it when something slips onto my dinner plate. An inflamed gut leads to mental health issues, and as we now know contributes to premature aging.
To me it looks like systematic poisoning of the food supply and I think it is a catastrophe in the making that nobody talks about.
- justin66 7y agoSo basically, milk powder is the EU's equivalent of the US's problem with corn syrup? That's rather interesting. I wouldn't even know how to use it as an ingredient, although that's true of at least half the stuff in most packaged foods.
- ganzuul 7y agoSimilar I suppose yes. I think it was in the '70s that there was talk in media here about butter mountains, so it's not a new problem either. Forgot to say, industrial cattle farming also uses a lot of antibiotics. Haven't heard of superbugs escaping yet, perhaps because of competent veterinarians.