Commentary
I am old enough to remember when milk was considered one of the healthy building blocks of any human diet. I remember glass bottles delivered to the door with the cream sitting on top waiting for whoever reached it first to sneak a taste before the rest of the family arrived. I remember the reminders from Mom and Granny: “Drink your milk. It will build strong bones.”
I also remember when the cream disappeared.
Milk began to look less like milk and more like pale dirty dishwater. In my 20s, I began struggling with digestive issues and was told I had “lactose intolerance” and was struggling with a digestive disorder that was “exacerbated” by milk and milk products. These were ailments that had previously been foreign to me….