Before the birth of the child, I, as probably most mothers, did not think at all about the question: how to choose the right milk products. I wanted milk - I went to the store, from a whole range of the presented assortment I chose what I liked more about the design of the package, or by name, or by date. Yes, and milk with curd, to admit, not so often wanted.
My attitude towards dairy products changed when it was time to introduce milk and sour-milk products to the baby in the diet. Here, and stood in front of me the choice: to give milk shop, or home. Long hesitated, chose and bent to the side of home production. I will explain my point of view, I hope this can help someone.
I'm not a technologist, as dairies make milk and I have not seen cottage cheese, I do not know. Whether they add powder, palm oil or something else, I do not know. But I argue as follows: representatives of the dairy go to villages, buy up milk. They buy cisterns, milk from different cows. Among these cows there may be sick animals - there are not conscientious people, and people in the villages survive, many sell milk - almost the only permanent earnings. The cow can be badly washed - again, who will check there. They have killed or sold. All milk, from different cows, merges into one cistern. Who and how to wash it - also a question.
From these considerations, I decided to abandon the store milk. The cottage cheese is not cottage cheese at all, but a cottage cheese mass. It is tasty - yes, but it is far from the present cottage cheese with its high content of calcium.
One more thing. Daily dairies produce hundreds of liters of milk. The question is, where do they take it. After all, if you drive in the warm season along the villages, you can see the colossal difference between how many cows grazed about ten years ago, and how much now. If earlier in each yard they kept a cow, or even 2-3, now everything has changed a lot. Many are not able to keep a cow. I have three friends, all live in villages, in different villages. And they were forced to sell the cows or to kill them. And they themselves buy milk from fellow villagers.
So the question arises: where do dairies take such daily quantities of milk and what do we generally use when buying packages with milk?
Milk is homemade. Here, too, has its drawbacks. Well, first of all, good, unleavened milk - too fat for children's gastrointestinal tract. Secondly, buying milk from people you do not know, take the risk. You can not be sure of the health of the cow, in the cleanliness of the hostess, in the cleanliness of the container in which the milk is sold. Well, it can be diluted with water with the addition of chalk. Also there are many dealers in the markets - they come early, to the very opening of the market, or - directly to the bus at the station. Meet grandmothers from the village, buy them wholesale milk, all poured into one container. All is well: and the grandmother from the village - did not manage to arrive, as everything sold, and speculators, who will add water to add to the volume of production.
Also confuses packaging, in which milk is sold. It comes to ridiculous - in the dairy pavilion hang signs forbidding the sale of milk in plastic containers and immediately, under these tablets, sell milk in plastic bottles. And it's good if the container is made of mineral water, and if from some "drink" of a poisonous-green color or the color of an outraged orange, but poorly washed-you will have a milk with a table of Mendeleev. And another question: where did the seller get these bottles? That's really it, selling even a day for 2-3 bottles of milk, so much water drinks. Something took me ... But all this, unfortunately, the realities of our lives.
I will say that somehow I came to the milk pavilion with a glass jar - they looked at me like an alien.
The purpose of the article was not to intimidate someone, to make anti-advertising to dairy products or to ensure that the consumer refused dairy products. Not at all. I just want the consumer, especially the one who takes milk to the child, thought well before buying and weighed the pros and cons and chose for his family: shop or home. After all, no matter how terrible the realities of our life were, milk is necessary for children, without milk, babies can not receive normal, rational nutrition. And if you, as, unfortunately, I do not have any relatives in the village with a cow, for you too sooner or later there will be a question: where to buy, how to choose?
For myself, I found a way out. I take home milk, cottage cheese and sour cream. Milk I dilute with water. Yogurt and kefir do myself (milk + leaven). Long sought the supplier. I remembered about my neighbor, who once a week goes to the village. With a neighbor, the relationship is good, I know her family as decent and clean, so I am sure of the quality of the products. Milk is brought to me in glass jars.