Do you know where your milk comes from? Whether you're trying to eat local or just curious about the origin of your milk, yogurt, or cottage cheese, the site Where Is My Milk From? will help you identify the city, state, and dairy where it was processed.
Most bottles and cartons of milk, as well as many containers of other dairy products like yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese, ice cream, and even soy milk, are printed with a code. This corresponds to the state and plant where it was processed – information that is made public in the FDA's Interstate Milk Shippers List but not very user-friendly.
Where Is My Milk From? makes it easy to plug in the code and get the name and location of the dairy. It doesn't necessarily give you the whole picture, as the processing dairy might bottle milk from multiple dairies, but it can still be enlightening. The site also reveals the interesting fact that "different brands of milk often come from the same dairy – and the same cows."
Check it out:
• Where Is My Milk From?
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This is really cool, however I live like an hour from Wisconsin so I'm not super worried about where its from.
Hmmm... I live in Wisconsin and you'd be surprised where your milk comes from! (not necessarily WI)
I think this tool is great.
I live on Vancouver Island, and so does all the milk that I buy :)
Lucky enough to live in a coop with local farmers, happy cows, and glass bottle delivery... (Oberweis) You really can taste a difference. I'm actually wondering if the bottles even have the printed code on there, but I suppose they must.
I'm in the Chicago area, and I buy milk mainly from dairies in Indiana. Good milk producers make it clear on the label where it's from.
What would be even neater is if someone would create a way to track the time from udder to grocery/refrigerator!
They should hook that up to something like this: http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca/teattweet/
I can't wait to show this to my mom, who (along with her husband) runs a small dairy in Upstate New York.
love Straus Family Creamery if you're in Calif.
Nice link to some great info!
A friend in MI goes to her local dairy and gets all her milk and butter directly. I feel like I should be able to do that here in MN but haven't found any place close enough to make it an easy weekly trip. (If anyone has any leads for Mpls, please share!)
Lucky me...I'm in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and live roughly 45 minutes away from where the cows producing my milk are pastured.
I talked to someone once that worked at a big milk plant. He said that when milk came back as past the "sell by" date, they threw it back in the vat, repasteurized it, and sent it back out to the grocery stores. Sounds kind of gross to me.
Where is your milk from? It is from the udders of a grieving mother that had her baby calf snatched from her at birth, so humans could steal her milk for themselves. A cow must constantly be kept pregnant to produce milk; the many offspring are not needed and end up as veal or to be used the same way, as dairy machines. We are the only species that consume milk past infancy, and use the milk from another species. And read the book "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell to learn how detrimental it is to our health. Also check out http://www.notmilk.com/kradjian.html