Thanks to food industry behemoth General Mills, most of us can find Greek yogurt in our neighborhood grocery stores. Lured by the extra flavor and the promise of twice the protein of regular yogurt, you may have bought this week’s product: Yoplait Greek Yogurt Honey Vanilla.
The Cause of the Dairy Crisis — Fake Food
It’s been in all the papers, on all the major media network news: The U.S. dairy industry is in trouble. Farmers are pouring milk down drains and slaughtering their cows for beef. Why? Ostensibly, it’s because a surplus of milk has prices at an all time low. But why is the demand for milk fallen off a cliff? Is it really that the average consumer is buying less of it? Nope. Turns out it’s because of a new fake food hitting the market: milk protein concentrates (MPCs).