“Consumption of milk per capita has gone down every year over the last 30 years,” says Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. “Actually, it’s gone down by more than 20 per cent since 2015.”

While bagged milk is often cited as a unique Canadianism, it’s actually not sold west of Ontario. Those who prefer it, however, say it’s more cost efficient and some even believe it tastes better.

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      Nor are most people making cheese with bagged milk from the grocery stores.

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        There are probably some slight differences between milk used for further processing and milk sold directly to consumers but it’s of a very similar quality. A lot of cheese in Canada is made from third party milk rather than milk produced on premises.

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          You can make the argument that the quality of milk in general is dropping, and that’s reflected in the quality of milk products. But to say that poor quality of milk products themselves are driving the decrease in milk consumption? I don’t see how the logic follows.

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        Do you usually make the cheeses you buy in the grocery store?

        Your argument makes no sense.

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              8 months ago

              Milk purchased in bulk from dairy farms, not bagged milk from the grocery stores.

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                Do you think milk from dairy farms and milk in cheese products come from different sources?? [They don’t]

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                  Cheese producer buys milk from farm X to make cheese. Grocery store also buys bagged milk from farm X. Cheese producer makes low quality cheese. How will that lead to people buying less bagged milk?

                  I said this in another branch of this thread, but I’ll repeat it here. You can make the argument that low quality milk from farm X leads to people buying less milk, but I don’t see how low quality cheese can cause people to buy less milk.

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                    You don’t see how consumers would equate bad milk with bad cheese? We’re done here. You have no clue what you’re talking about.

                    It’s literally in this thread.