Andrea Freeman
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Okay, well, I'm team soy milk.
I like coconut milk for ice cream.
The calcium that's in milk is because of the cows eating grass and getting calcium that way.
And so when you drink cow's milk,
You have this kind of middle person of the cow where you could just eat greens and other kinds of foods that have calcium in them yourself and get it directly.
So we really don't need cow milk to get calcium.
There's a really long history of the government supporting the dairy industry.
That means actually giving money to dairy farmers.
Like through subsidies or?
So guaranteeing that they're going to get a certain price.
And if there's a fall or a decline, the government will make it up.
And so what's happened because of these subsidies is
is that there's been a massive surplus of milk in the United States.
And the government has to take that milk, which they then turn into cheese, and do something with it.
So they started storing cheese all over cold storages in the U.S.
So they still didn't know what to do with it.
They said they were going to maybe throw it in the ocean.
But then what they said is...