On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 6:08:10 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:12:32 -0800 (PST), "
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 1:01:48 PM UTC-6, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>
> >> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...id=mailsignout
> >>
> >> Dean Foods, America's largest milk producer, is filing for bankruptcy.
> >>
> >> The 94-year-old company has struggled in recent years because Americans
> >> are drinking less cows milk. 2019 has been a particularly brutal: the
> >> company's sales tumbled 7% in the first half of the year, and profit
> >> fell 14%. Dean Foods stock has lost 80% this year
> >>
> >> The company, which makes some of the country's most recognizable milk
> >> and dairy products, including Dairy Pure, Organic Valley and Land
> >> O'Lakes, has blamed its struggles on the "accelerated decline in the
> >> conventional white milk category."
> >>
> >I just read this a few minutes ago and it's a bit of a shocker, too.
>
> People are realising that milk's good for calves and babies, but
> adults don't need it, unless they're stuck in the baby phase. Maybe
> they weren't breast-fed long enough.

Yet they buy the ersatz milk by the tanker-load. It's got nothing to
do with calves and babies. It's about what they enjoy and what they
believe to be healthy.

Cindy Hamilton