Milk, it does a body good. Or does it? Or did we do something bad to it?

Dairy in the modern world has came a long way from just the cow. Pasteurization, homogenization, and dozens of 5+ syllable words are needed to even begin to capture the industrial processing that dairy now undergoes today.

You wouldn’t think that a Food that is 85-95% water would be a good candidate for turning into a dry powder. But Big Food thought otherwise. So along with all the other processed and pseudo dairy products that line our stores and shelves, we have powdered milk.  And wow, it is added to A LOT of foods both organic and conventional. From baby formula to milk chocolate and everything in between, milk powder is a very important ingredient to the industrialized food system.

But why do this to dairy? How do food companies make this stuff?  And what does it do to us? Does organic powdered milk pass as a safe food for us to consume? (...)
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