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Monday, December 29. 2008
Milk
A blog entry I wanted to write quite some time now... Depicted on the right is a liter carton of organic whole milk of one of the two big retailers here in Switzerland. At the bottom is the red area again, enlarged. For those who don't read french, italian or german: it's an indication of the ingredients (“Ingredients: whole milk”), and a warning for people with allergies (“Contains milk”.) No doubt information like this is an essential contribution to lowering health costs by making people chose healthier foods and being aware of what they eat.
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That's ok. On airplanes, bags of peanuts conveniently warn you of their contents and where they may have been processed: http://flickr.com/photos/jason-riedy/100637305/
Being from Argentina, a place were cows and milk seems to be everywhere, I would have been more surprised than you. But I have seen a similar milk package in Nagano, Japan. It contained 3% of milk. Yes, just 3%. So no, i am not surprised of the indications :-)
To Lisandro: for people with a milk allergy 3% can be too much (it usually is, if I recall correctly).
To Adrian: google "Sorites paradox"
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