Changing consumer habits could spell the end of bagged milk

With all the news about microplastics maybe we should go back to glass bottles.

With all the price gouging happening and shrinkflation, changing consumer habits could spell the end of food.

Is it "changing consumer preferences", or is it the industry seeing an opportunity for shrinkflation.

I prefer kegged milk myself

So Canadians are giving up on milk and just drinking maple syrup now? Sweet!

How will our kids get their daily dose of microplastics????!!!!

You guys drink milk out of bags? We use glass, plastic, or cardboard jugs down in the States.

I love bagged milk, but I can't go through THREE FUCKING BAGS as a family of two.

They're more eco-friendly than the box or the jug, but I guess that goes against the goal of consuming more raw materials.

It's funny we have no issues drinking milk from many animals, but people would be grossed out knowing it's milk from a human breast, and wouldn't drink it.

Edit: changed any to many

I've always wondered about the bagged milk... Don't they get broken a lot? I'm genuinely curious

Bagged milk was available in MB in the late 80s/early 90s, but it disappeared some time after that.

Is this.. Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk..?

I think this is what ended it in AB. People just stopped buying it and bought jugs instead.

I grew up with bagged milk but don't have it where I live now. With my two kids and I enjoying breakfast cereal regularly, our recycling bin fills up fast. I miss milk bags. So low waste. I remember we'd slit the end and use them for sandwich bags in our lunch bags. Or use them to wrap blocks of cheese.

I swear I remember my mum freezing sealed bags of milk for the cooler to keep meat cold on the way to the cabin.

Are these changing consumer habits mostly being driven by how insanely expensive and low quality milk products are becoming? Canadian cheese and butter are trash and cost an arm and a leg - especially when you get into goat and sheep cheeses that a lot of lactose intolerant west coasters prefer.

Tastes better 🤣🤣🤣🤣 those micro plastics sure kick up the flavor a few notches!!

Instead of buying 4L (they are in 3 bags) of milk for $7, you will need to buy 2x 2L tetrapak at $5 each.

It's just for money that they are ending bags.

bagged milk is a pretty wild concept to me, but obviously there are a lot of facets of american life that are fucking bonkers to everyone else (and lots of us) so I cant really speak to it

I just had a shower thought, probably dumb and I am tired, but how about pipes to deliver regular liquids/fluids? 🤔

I think I read somewhere in Germany brewery would have pipes to bars delivering a continuous supply of beer.

Now let's do that with ultrafiltered and/or ultra-high-temperature milk (less prone to spoiling).

How about adding pipes for beer (or some other alcohol or wine), cooking oil (whichever most suitable), and any other frequently used liquid I forgot?

If spoilage is well controlled, would that be a less energy intensive distribution method?

Isn't milk kinda useless for humans after they stop being toddlers?

This isn't a Canadian specific thing. Its common in most of the world.

But the problem isnt milk, its animal milk. Soy and oat milk should be fine.