Rebuild from Depression Blog

“Hey Amanda. Dead Milkmen or how about “Cream”? ‘Liven’ that milk. Make it raw.”

Tom nominates Dead Milkmen or Cream as both rock groups and depression buster foods. Apparently he likes it unprocessed, just as it comes out of the cow.

Dead Milkmen is an interesting choice because raw milk advocate and Organic Pastures Dairy owner Mark McAfee often talks about the “Got Dead Milk?” people: the regular old dairy industry. Many raw milk drinkers talk about “dead milk” – pasteurized milk. Most probably don’t know about the punk band “Dead Milkmen.”

I met the "Dead Milk" people this week at the World Ag Expo and their talk about raw milk was about recent news here in California (you can see that I do extra curricular writing over at The Ethicurean which is one reason this poor blog suffers).

Milk is a great source of protein and calcium. Feed the cows grass and they will have higher levels of Omega 3 fatty acids. The same goes for the cream.

But as much as I like milk and cream, they did not make the depression buster cut. When you are doing an index based on the weight of food, milk is at a bit of a disadvantage because of its high water content, but neither cream nor cheese made the cut even with their lower water content. Milk is a high fat food but it is actually not a great source of Omega 3s even when the cows are pastured. Milk is basically a non-source of Omega 3s when cows are confined.

So don’t get me wrong, I am drinking as I write this (and what I am drinking may even be milk), but neither milk nor cream made the list. Sorry Tom.

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