Whole Milk vs Organic

kelleymark82606 · January 2011

What are your thoughts?

What did you use?

Why did you use it?

Would you do it differently next time?

Anything you want to add.

KathrynMD · January 2011

We used organic whole and then switched DD to organic 2% about 2 months ago. She gets regular non-organic milk at school. I buy organic meat and dairy when I can, but organic milk is really easy to find.

I just think the less growth hormones she gets the better. I'll keep her on organic (and us too) but I don't go nuts about it either. I went to store the other day and they didn't have any organic half gallons of low fat, so I just bought regular low fat.

daisyterp · January 2011

We buy Whole Organic for DD still. She's in the 5th% for weight and can use the fat. Also my mom (teacher) and dad (doctor) have both heard numerous speakers/studies, etc. about fat being essential for brain development, etc.

Occasionally we just buy whole milk that is rBST free (like if we had run out and DH is driving by a High's or Wawa on his way home from working late.) Trader Joe's dairy products are all rBST free, so that's what we eat for yogurt, cheese, etc.

We typically drink low-fat/skim milk from TJ's (so rBST free.) From everything I have read it's more important for full fat dairy products to be organic because the fat is what holds more toxins, pesticide residue, etc.

FieryIrishAngel · January 2011

I buy organic all the time, mainly to avoid the growth hormones. I usually buy 2%, but if the store is out of it, I'll buy whole. DD is the primary milk-drinker in the house and I'm not terribly concerned about the amount of milkfat she gets. Aside from that, someone just told me a couple of weeks ago that the percentage of fat difference between while and 2% is actually very, very little.

jcsntms06 · January 2011

We buy organic whole for DD to avoid the growth hormones. DH and I usually buy regular 1%, but we really like organic, so we started to buy the organic for ourselves as well. I was buying the Horizon Organic, but they only sell OWM in the 1/2 gallon, so I just started to buy the store brand OWM because they have it in gallon.

daisyterp · January 2011

there is no advantage to buying Horizon brand. Horizon uses replacement cows that aren't organic and doesn't have as high of standards as some of the store brands.

mrs. remy · January 2011

We buy organic occasionally but most of the time just buy conventional (2%) milk that is hormone free. after doing a ton of reading on it, I am not sure if its worth the added cost to me. My biggest concern is the hormones, and if I can buy a gallon of hormone free milk for $2.50 vs. $6 I am going with the $2.50.

I used to freak about antibiotics until i learned that conventional milk is tested for antibiotic residue and that a batch will have to be thrown out if any is found. The difference is cows in organic farming operations are never treated with antibiotics unless its absolutely necessary and then that cow can't be used again. so often they will get sold to slaughter. In a conventional operation, the cow will be pulled out of the herd until the antibiotics are out of its system. I kind of take issue with companies like Horizon and the way they advertise, you would think conventional milk is absolutely pumped full of every kind of poison imaginable. So i think they make a lot of money off playing off people's fear. Ok sorry, tangent.

anonsouthernbell · January 2011

Matthew can't have dairy but if he could I would buy organic milk and local if possible. There are some CSAs as well as local farms that you can get a part of that will actually deliver milk either to your house or pretty close to it. The advantage to that is that you can find grass fed cow milk - which is quite a mouthful! There are more nutrients in grass fed cow milk than in corn fed cow milk. Additionally, I try to steer clear of big supermarket chains of organic milk as they tend to all be ultrapastuerized. (I will be honest that I haven't had a chance to look into ultrapastuerization myself, but someone else was telling me that it wasn't that great for you. So in that case I will buy regular milk that doesn't have rBHT in it, which FWIW is all the milk sold at Walmart and is available at Target too).

jcsntms06 · January 2011

daisyterp:
there is no advantage to buying Horizon brand. Horizon uses replacement cows that aren't organic and doesn't have as high of standards as some of the store brands.

I know that. I don't buy brand name anymore.

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