Glass's issue is transportation cost, so you'll want to make milk supply more local...wait a minute, this is starting to sound like commie shit

I would absolutely love the glass bottles.

I worry about breakage and substandard cleaning in the coming era of downsized food safety checkers in the Bitcoin Milhouse cabinet, but a few plebes dying from salmonella will fix that spending ... almost.

Cardboard cartons are compostable.

It could happen. It seems to be working for Farm Boy.

Clearly it's the shrinkflation

Personally, I stopped buying milk. My daughter has a dairy allergy but I used to buy almond milk for her and dairy milk for myself, but I've switched to just almond milk for both of us to reduce my contribution to the beef industry. I'll still buy some dairy products like cheese and ice cream, but generally am trying to minimize my demand.

This.

Milk on tap? Sign me up!

You don’t take your milk with an IV while you sleep? Weirdo!

I once made the mistake of telling my american coworkers that I buy over a gallon of fresh maple syrup from a local sugar shack each year and I was excited for spring because I was running low… I think I warped their perception of the canadian diet.

Don't worry, they don't have to try, it's likely in well water at this point. Guaranteed most of your store bought food probably has it too.

Bottled water? Most mustards and ketchups? Or well, any liquids in a plastic container? They now sell even olive oil in plastic bottles. I avoid them like the plague. We all should.

Some places do things a bit differently. More news at 11

It's not even all of Canada, just Ontario, Quebec, and the maritimes

In eastern Canada. I've never even seen it in western Canada.

Yea, it's shipped in a rectangular bag. It goes into a milk holder that holds the bag snug, and you snip the corner off so it pours like a spout. The jug that holds it provides the handle and stability for the bag. When the bag is empty, toss it, put the next bag in.

More eco-friendly? Where I am we can’t recycle any of the bags whereas the box and jug we can.

To repeat: plastic bagged milk is more eco-friendly than cardboard?

As a family of 5, we go through it easily in a week.

I'm in my 40s and I can only remember one bag breakingon me, but that's because my dumb ass dropped it.

The plastic feels a bit like a heavy duty ziplock bag, or piping bag material, made as a tube (so strong shape, structurally) then flat sealed on both ends. Quite thick so not that easy to puncture by accident. Once in a while there’s one that leaks but they get removed at the grocery store by stockers, mostly. It’s easy to spot, it just looks flat and at worst (if the hole is on the bottom), there’s a liter and some of milk all over in their fridge.

They’re super tough. Never seen one break.

It happens, but not very often. I used to work dairy in a grocery store, so you’d see it, fairly often, but usually we the workers would catch it (because the bag would be leaking).

I’ve never seen a bag pop, or puncture outside of that.

Exactly. I'm not sure what metaphor fits best. If there isn't one, it's an odd combination of "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" and "chicken and the egg".

They can't claim there's no demand for it if it isn't on the shelves in the first place.

Times change, the customer is always right in matters of taste, etc.

It's funny we have no issues drinking milk from any animal

Bruh we definitely have issues drinking milk from other animals.

Have you ever seen anyone drink Dog Milk? Cat Milk? Possum Milk? Pangolin Milk? Motherfuckin... Platypus Milk? They all mammals.

What I'm wondering is, we have made strides to synthetically make milk with the use of yeast to make the proteins. So theoretically, we could make any milk. Why are we making cows milk this way?

I wonder how much cost and risk is involved in reintroducing it.

Don't worry, those plastic jugs and plastic lined cardboard boxes are fulfilling your daily microplastic requirements just fine.

Nearly ever milk receptacle except for glass will be sealed with plastic. Microplastics are not a bagged milk specific problem.

Having had the cheese available in America, I have to say better grasses makes better cheese.

I refute your assessment of Canadian cheese, my good man, and I shall be available by the flagpole after recess. It's a duel.

Why are you getting down voted so much? You are absolutely right. Canadian milk products (including milk) are complete garbage. We can thank our milk cartels for that, plus the really stupid regulations put into place over concerns of germs that basically limits the amount of raw or non-homogenized milk on the market.

How come most of Europe can produce far superior tasting cheeses and also consume fresh milk from milk vending machines, but there's an inane control on it in North America?

Shit bro getting downvoted by the dairy industry 😂

We're talking about milk here, not milk products.

Keen for beer plumbing.

If we're piping allergens straight into people's homes, might as well have another one for peanut butter.

Just imagine the initial costs and maintenance costs of those pipes. It's already expensive routing water for people's houses. It's much less costly to do what was done in the past and have regular deliveries for those products in a reusable glass container and regular pickups of those containers. You also wouldn't really get a choice on the variant of the liquid you want like the type of beer, oil, or milk since everyone has their own preference or needs like with allergies.

Imagine if someone moves into a new house with a beer service line installed and they don't drink beer. The beer in that line would go bad and get really disgusting and probably contaminate beer in the rest of the line. The same goes for milk too. Imagine how disgusting a pipe filled with months old milk would be. Even ultra high temperature pasteurization won't save it. Imagine if you get a leak in your milk or beer pipe. Imagine if gets too cold or hot for the liquid and you get really warm beer out of the line or a slushy beer solution.

If you can guarantee those service lines will be used regularly, then I can see it being worth it since the maintenance costs and installation costs would be outweighed by the savings. Beer lines from a brewery to bars makes sense since the bars will be regularly going through a constant supply of beer. But on a regular consumer level, it's not worth it.

Tl;dr It's a logistical nightmare.

It's been proposed. Do a search for "soup tubes."

Do you eat cereal with water?

Oh ya, totally useless. Humans don't derive any nutrition from milk. It just teleports through their body.

I've yet to see adults drinking milk naturally meant for humans(aka breast milk) the dairy industry really got us good in brain washing