Guest guest Posted February 7, 2002 Report Share Posted February 7, 2002 Hi folks, I wrote to Natural by Nature to get the skinny on their organic milk...thought you might be interested: >We add no solids or powdered milk to our skim. It's just skim milk. We are >required to add vitamins by the FDA. >When the cows are not on fresh grass they get lots of dry hay, some haylage, >and minerals. Some guys still feed some corn silage. Corn silage is good >feed but it lowers the level of sugars in the milk. A few of our producers >still feed some soybean meal (22% concentrate) but it is a very very >expensive source of protein and is hard to balance in the ration. Good >quality hay and alfalfa are the best sources of balanced nutrition for the >winter. >As for our unhomogenized milk, it is sold only in glass bottles. I'll >contact our biggest New York distributor and find out who is selling it in >Manhattan and where. >Thank you so much for your interest in our product. >Ned MacArthur I know the part about soy feed is bad, but the milk is from 25 family farms, so all in all the milk seems to be pretty high in quality (much better than Horizon at least...) By the way--found some awesome raw milk cheeses at the union square (manhattan) farmers market today. Yipeee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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