Come on now. Pus in cows milk? What? Really?

[Spidermama]

I told my dh I have this information on the highest authority - mumsnet - that cows milk contains pus. Also mucous.

He's laughed long and hard at me all evening so who's right?

Either way I've been drinking my coffee black ever since.

I'll leave this with you.
I must go and make packed lunches.

I was told that non organic milk has more mucous thab organic,something to do with the grain that the cows eat making more mucous than grass of the lovely organic frolicking cows.

It converted me to organic

don't know about pus though.....gross

SM...sorry,have I freaked you???

Blame Heather.Would you like me to find the article for you?
Hang on,could be online.
Try last week's Observer.

I've been wondering about this for a while.

Isn't pus the same thing as white blood cells, as in the immune system stuff that all milk has? Only, because the milk has been pasteurised, refrigerated, etc, the white blood cells are dead?

Oh, no, it's a side-effect of mastitis in the cows, apparently. Here is the best link I could find. The vegan sites seemed a bit ... biased? "Pus" is such an emotive word ...

It's rubbish. It is also rubbish that milk makes mucus. Just not true. Vegan propaganda.

Load of bollocks. Milk is teasted to make sure that it has below the permited load of bacteria.....and before anyone flips at the thought of it having any bacteria at sourse, we are all covered in bacteria, every square cm of us!

And then them milk is pasteurised, which kills off bacteria that do exist.

source

But mb, it's even sillier than that - the "pus" is just white blood cells (ok, formed in response to bacteria, but still!). They have a "somatic cell count" limit per litre, which is the amount of white blood cells.

And yeah, there's a limit on the amount of bugs in frozen brocolli, etc etc (as in, there's always going to be some, they just make sure there aren't too many). Food always contains gross stuff, really.

We do too! A third to a half of a healthy turd is made up of dead bateria, mostly E coli! Our skins wouldn't be so healthy without their coating of bacteria. There is now some evidence that alleric responces may be linked to not getting worms any more!

My old Ma used to say 'We all eat a peck of dirt before we die'. We are far too manic about bacteria etc. Brocolli is grown is faeces FGS

Face mites have no anus!

It's not just bacteria, there are tiny insects all over us too, if I remember rightly.

I believe the 'bi-product of mastitus' line. I've been drinking my coffee black for the past couple of days anyway. I've been on the verge of giving up milk for years and this was the final straw.

Martianbishop - my mum always uses the 'peck of dirt' saying too!

sounds pretty revolting but if we took in everything that is published in the press about food there would be nothing left to eat!

Spidermama, I read that here too a little while ago, I don't remember who started the conversation or where their information came from though. I don't know the ins and outs of it, but the information seemed reliable and plausible, and as I'd also been on the verge of giving up milk, I moved to organic on the grounds that it was less nasty than ordinary milk. I do prefer organic farming anyway, as I fondly hope that it's true that the animals farmed that way have a more natural diet and a more natural life (in as far as any farmed animal can be deemed to have a natural life).

Cows with mastitis are milked seperately & the milk thrown away.As is the milk of cows that have just calved,been treated with medicines ect.