My reply to a post on Nestle’s coagulated milk

If you happen to meet with them again, tell them that the Dutch drink only FRESH milk - kept pasteurized and refrigerated. Their shelf-life lasted for only a few days.

There is no supermarket in The Netherlands that sell milk in tins. You can get them only in African shops!

The Dutch produce powdered milk only for exports.

Companies like Nestle bring it to Africa, add some water and deploy their marketing people to gimmick it up like some healthy and highly-nutritious miracle drink!

… Milk are not exported to Africa in paper because it will cost more money and that will cut the profit margin. Remember that fresh must be pasteurized and refrigerated. The imported fresh milk are mostly for the expats who can afford it! Have you ever seen a European consuming tin milk?

In the Netherlands, the excess milk that is not sold is turned into cheese, butter etc, the rest is DRIED and packaged in sacks and shipped to Africa.

Companies like Nestle hire white-jacketed people to mix and put them in tins. The white jackets are needed to create the illusion that it involves some high grade chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, science, engineering, technology etc.

… A good thing that the marketing chief is reading it.

I didn’t say that Nestle produce Peak milk.

“Companies like Nestle bring…” is what I wrote.

…. Why should we even think that cow milk is good for an adult human?

Do we see cows drink milk from their mothers after they are weaned?

Apart from young animals that lost their mothers, do we see any other animals drink milk from another species?

Why should we even think that powdered milk, produced in Holland, transported across the oceans, housed for weeks or months in a warehouse, mixed with water in a factory, put in tins and placed on shelves in hot African weather for days, weeks or months will have any nutritional value?

We certainly have a long way to go in educating ourselves on the type of thing we put into our mouths and stomachs.

We can begin our interrogation by reading up on lactose intolerance, especially for Black people.

We can also examine why we refuse to see a link between what we eat and the debilitating diseases that afflict us today on epidemic scale - hbp, diabetes and stroke.

Fẹmi Akọmọlafẹ is a writer and author

February 3, 2021