Why is the expiration date on organic milk so much farther in the future than "regular" milk.

It’s ultra pasteurized

Not all organic milk is ultra pasteurized, and some non-organic milk is ultra pasteurized. It’s just most common with organic milk.

Heh. My mother sees the extended expiration date as proof that organic milk really isn’t healthy at all.

I have to say this is shocking to me. It seems like a contradiction that organic milk is ultra-pasteurized. I have freinds who are into organic/whole food living and they buy raw milk. Funny. I’m assuming they ultra-pasteurize because the milk might actually be travelling farther, assuming there are fewer Organic dairy farms around?

I love it. It tastes so much better to me than regular milk. I don’t drink that often, mostly because I don’t care all that much for the taste, but I actually like organic milk! I don’t know why it lasts longer, but if you live alone and don’t drink much, that extra time is fab!

@drdoombot That’s all I buy, but I never really noticed it until @JLeslie mentioned it.

@avvooooooo I think organic milk tastes better than regular milk also. I only use milk in cereal, I never drink it. On the link @Likeradar posted it said the opposite, that organic milk doesn’t taste as good. The big negative is it costs so much more, and I am not clear if they treat the animals better? That is initially why I started using it, for humane reasons. One of the organic milks available to me says right on the carton that they are nicer to their cows, bu tnot all organic milk says it.

My fathers best friend owns an organic dairy, and the cows seem happier than the ones that aren’t. The cows have less “stress” as an animal, and I guess you could say that they are spoiled. If they could talk, they would get everything they ever wanted.

@shego thanks.

your welcome

@JLeslie I think, even with the reduced milkfat ones, that they taste… creamier? I only drink 2% when I do drink milk so I’m not sure what whole fat organic tastes like, but even the reduced is better.

@JLeslie Goat’s milk is also “ultra-pasteurized”.

My SIL & BIL’s entire family came down w/a rare bacterial infection this summer. They had been buying raw, organic milk. I’ll take the ultra-pasteurized anytime!

@avvooooooo Me too.

@SpatzieLover Yeah, I think raw milk is crazy, unless it is your cow in your back yard. It is illegal in some states. I wondered if when they sell raw milk if they put it all into one vat before bottling it? That is the big problem if they do. If one cow has an infection then the whole vat gets infected, if it is one cow to a particular group of bottles, only that set of milk will be infected—still ewww.