----- Original Message ----- From: "doug foskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Where in Aus are you? It sounds like it could be NR of NSW?
Greetings Doug, I'm on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns Queensland. Its the location for Australia's only Tropical Dairying Area and home of "the worlds longest milk run". Have also worked in Dairy factories across N.S.W. and in Canberra. First job was in the lab of a large dairy company in Hunter Valley, Newcastle N.S.W.. In those times milk was delivered to the factory in milk cans. Each farmers milk would be tipped into one side of a double sided weighing vat. Part of my job was to sample the milk for methylene blue quality testing (this was in the days before widespread microbiological testing and indeed anyone who was capable of such tests was held in godlike status). Each farmers milk would have a different fragrance depending upon its freshness, the mix of cows in the herd and what they were eating. Many times I succomed to temptation and sucked a little harder on the sampling pipette to get the taste of a good smelling batch. >(for the internationals, we have an organic dairy near Kyogle who also sells milk from > selected cows (A2 milk), supposed to be low in undesirable fats?.) > This milk (the normal one, anyway) is Jersey milk, & my children will not > drink it as it tastes 'different'. To me it tastes like I remember milk.... Some years ago when I worked at an agricultural college a company was trialing a product that coated feed components and moved them unaltered through the initial phase of a cows digestive system. The aim was to produce milk with less saturated fats, not sure of the mechanism or outcome of the trials. Guess its what you are used to and expect of a product. Butter for instance always has a yellower colour in summer because of the better pasture, winter butter is harder to sell because the comsumer expects a nice yellow colour, (can remember my grandmother's homemade butter being very pale and a bit too salty but good), so the buttermakers send a lot of the butter they make off to cold store. Summer butter gets blended with winter butter to improve the colour and excess butter from summer gets shipped to cold store for use in winter. Another example is any product with a strawberry flavour.The colour the consumer expects is way in excess of what the proportion of natural fruit could provide. This is just an example of the hurdles organic produce face. Marketing has transfered our selection criteria from our noses and taste buds to our eyes. Fruit with skin blemishes does not necessarily taste inferior. Indeed it can have a better taste and nutritional content than a perfect example of a variety grown specifically for its presentation value, ability to be force ripened at the required time and its durability to travel. Tomatoes are a good example of this. Was given the task of making up a ten gallon batch of custard for a TV ad crew once. The normal custard was considered too pale and not thick enough for the filming. Both thickness and colour had to be dramatically increased for the desired effect until the end result was more like a batch of orange dyed cement mix. > As yet in Aus, we do not have a lot of processing on raw veges (that I lnow > of anyway..) We still get eyes sprouting on potatoes, etc. Atherton Tablelands is a potatoe growing area and we can buy bags of spuds straight from the farm, still covered with the rich red volcanic soil they grow in. Ironic part is that even though this soil is reputed to be some of the best farm soil in the country and will grow almost anything, every time we are cut off from southern distribution markets by flooding our local supermarkets run out of vegetables. >BUT unfortunately we seem to have a govt going down the GM road - even tho the populace do not > trust it. I wonder if the US powerbrokers are using pressure to make us go > this way (So no competitor can be GM free, & have a powerful market position) > Ah well, conspiracy theory mode off.... > > regards Doug The ultimate insult from GM products would seem to me to be the reports of fines for farmers whose properties adjoin those with GM crops and find that some of those crops are sprouting in their fields. Do GM crops set true to seed or do they throw back like hybrids? Enouth of my waffling, its probably information everyone is familiar with anyway. Regards, Paul Gobert. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Save up to 80% on top-quality inkjet cartridges & refill kits at Myinks.com Free shipping on orders $50 or more to the US and Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5702 http://us.click.yahoo.com/YrYXfA/AyWGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
