I have a couple of friends who are organic nuts and they keep telling me that processed milk is bad and that I should drink organic milk ($2-3 more than regular). What's wrong with skin or whole milk? I thought it was good for your bones or some crap. My friends told me that chemicals are placed in processed milk to make it taste like milk and paint thinner is used or something along the lines of that. Is that stuff true and is drinking organic milk worth the extra money?

Regular milk and organic milk are different only in the way the animal is treated.
Regular milk, the cow is treated with anti-biotics (to keep the animal healthy) and hormones (to increase milk production).
Organic milk, the cow is treated with out the medications and hormones.
Both milks are processed by heat pasturization.
The reason for organics milk's higher cost is lower production of milk.

Which is better? Depends on who you ask.
Regular milk has been like this for the past thirty odd years.
No heath issues or side effects have been noted.
Organic milk is seen as more natural.
This may or may not be true.

My advice is that if you have the extra money to spend on organic milk and meats and vegetables then do it. Otherwise, you are just like the millions of the rest of us who trust our gov't regs and the food industry. So far ... so good?

There is fresh milk and processed milk. I don't know what you mean by natural milk. Both fresh and processed are natural.

I think most milk nowadays is pasteurised or homogenised. Fresh milk straight from a cow on a farm tastes a lot creamier and fuller.

So raw milk is better? Also, it doesn't matter what the cows eat? I know cows eat grass for organic milk but I couldn't taste the difference between organic and pasteurized. From what you all said I'm guessing both types of milk are the same.

Fresh milk .. direct from a cow .. has bacteria and will not keep for more than a day in your refrigerator.
Pasturisng the milk .. makes the shelf life of the milk longer.




Of course it matters what the cows eat.
And, yes you should be able to taste the difference in a side by side comparasion.

No, the beneficial and non-beneficial bacteria keep each other in check. Thus raw milk usually sours due to lactic acid production, which is not particularly bad.

wrong. in organic milk cows are not grass fed unless it specifically states so and I've yet to find any that have
organic only means not injected with bovine growth hormone or antibiotics