What About 3% Milk?

A review of the different blends of milk, and why there is nothing between 2% and whole milk.

November 30, 2001

Agrian Amazement: Somehow the work ethic of farms and Rural America never ceases to amaze me.

Christmas on the Farm: Why working farms rarely have Christmas lights.

Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Looking at the pros and cons of mega-farming.

Contempt of Farms: Farmers are backwords maybe, but essential definately.

Day My Dad Shot the Dog: A story about life and death on the farm and my old dog.

Farm Metrics: One way of trying to tell the difference between corporate, family, and play farms.

Geographical Differences in Farms: Why geography and experience define so much of the farm scene.

If You Move Next to A Pig Farm: It's going to smell like pig manure sometimes, so don't complain.

Interest Groups of the Farmer: The conflicts and issues that define the contemporary farm.

Old Farmers: With so many farmers getting old, what is the future of our rural landscape.

Raw Milk: Raw milk is dangerous but shows a demand for more milk diversity.

Smells of the Farm: The smells of farm life while obnoxious can still be quite pleasing.

What About 3% Milk?

We have whole milk (which despite it's name is 4% milkfat). And of course 2%, 1% and slightly more then 0% skim milk. Obviously only whole milk tastes good, skim milk is crap, but is good for you.

But why haven't they came out with 3% milk? They have 1% milk. Isn't that silly enough already? Why do you need 1% milk?

Think about it. 2% milk makes sense. You get half the fat of whole milk, yet much of the same taste. But why 1%? Is that to wean you off fat to work towards skim milk?

While skim milk is healthy for you and for farmer's profits, it tastes like shit, especially certian times of year (like the middle of the winter when cows are fed silage only).

Yet that still doesn't anwser the question about the lack of 3% milk. Maybe I just needed to learn more about dairying to find the anwser to my question.

Oh well. Let's just feed this article to the cows or to the burn barrel or something...