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Lenny Leneey,

Mixing segments about milk and meat?

Not very kosher...

Tsk, Tsk

Will you mention the Chinese milk scandal?

Humans are the only creature who wined off their mother’s mums in order to get stack under another creature's utters for the rest of their lives.

We were not meant to drink cow’s milk. Cow’s milk is meant to raise cows; a much larger animal than us. In addition, as we just heard, most of these cows are raised in very poor conditions and are poorly fed, not to mention the amount of hormones and antibiotics they receive.

Research shows that countries and areas that don’t consume high amounts of dairy as we do have less occurrences of cancer (especially breast cancer) and osteoporosis, so you do the math.

In addition, the process of pasteurization actually kills beneficial enzymes and bacteria that are essential for digestion of milk, rendering it toxic to our digestive system.

Finally, for infants human milk is best, but if for some reason human milk is not available, goat or sheep milk is much better than cow as these animals are similar in size to us and are usually fed on grass in open pastures.

That’s all I wanted to say…

patti - lots of parents switch to organic foods when becoming pregnant or giving birth. probably a good idea

This may have been discussed, but is there any truth to the claim that the hormones used in much of our milk today leading to earlier onset of puberty for girls?

I'm about to give birth to a girl and was ready to switch over to hormone-free or organic.

If you could ask this question, that would be great.

After learning on how cows are usually treated, I'm seriously thinking of switching to soy milk!

What do your guests know about Ronnybrook farms?

is beef made from milk cows?

which cuts?

animal rennet vs. vegetable enzymes -- according to my cheesemonger a huge area of innovation currently -- address?

Buffalo milk is very popular and common through out south Asia and south East Asia. it has a very high fat content, the reason it is much sought after. the cheese is more creamy.

what do you think of dannon's new "innovative" culture, found in their yogurt product "activia"?

also, if one makes yogurt using culture from activia and another yogurt, combined, will that simply create a more complex culture? is that patent infringement, technically (since dannon owns that particular culture)? i suppose i would know this if i better understood the process, sorry for the simple questions...

finally ,what is the difference betwn cottage cheese and milk?

these are 3 questions i came across yesterday in the course of making yogurt and figured you might be just the person to ask!