FoodBanter.com - Got my morning batch of Brown Rice finished!

On Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 5:06:32 PM UTC-6, Hank Rogers wrote:
> wrote:
> > On Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 12:40:00 PM UTC-6, Hank Rogers wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm eating a bowl of cheerios!!!!
> >>
> >> With 4% milk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >>
> > I had scrambled eggs with spinach and parmesan cheese. Plus coffee
> > with fake creamer and aspartame.
> >
> Eggs sound great! May I have my coffee with only a splash of H&H?

That's pretty much what I was thinking, but these days morning coffee is
just a little espresso in a lot of whole milk, which is really 3.25%. On work
days I supplement that with a 200mg caffeine tablet. Around here, the only
way you can get 4% milk is directly from a farmer, and that's really
expensive.

Folks might find this interesting. Braum's milk rocks. You can't get it in StL.
The closest place they distribute is Springfield, MO, and that's 200 miles
away.

Oklahoma is a crazy place in most ways, but they have very permissive
regulations on the sale of raw milk. You can buy raw milk in Illinois too, but
mostly near Chicago. Raw milk is a treat. I don't buy into it having health
benefits, and it understandably is more expensive because the cows' udders
must be cleaned more carefully before milking, and labor is not, and should
not, be cheap.

Illinois has 2 or 3 Guernsey dairies west of Chicago, and their milk is, I
believe, higher than 4% fat. I understand that it is practical for most milk to
be Pasteurized, but with high standards of production, I'd like to see all
States permit boutique raw milk. For those who are not
immunocompromised, the health risk is very low. If it weren't, raw milk
producers wouldn't be able to obtain insurance, and if there's one group of
professionals who are consistentently at the top of their game, it is
actuaries.

I'll go so far as to say that the insurance industry, in conjuntion with a fair
tort system, is one of the most functional aspects of market capitalism.
Actuaries function independently from ideology; the risk assessments
that actuaries provide are unbiased to the extent that they get good data.
Gung-ho laissez-faire folks should believe them regarding the risks of
human induced climate change. The Pentagon brass *do* believe them,
and assess the national security threats of climate change accordingly.

--Bryan