On Nestle’s Coagulated Tin Milk
My Mission: Stultitia Delenda Est - Stupidity Must be Destroyed!
[Introduction. This one is from my archives. I wrote it when I used to waste my time on Zuckerberg's Facebook.
A lady friend had written a post complaining about her experience with Nestle's Ghana. According to her story, she was not amused by the replies she got when she complained to Nestle officials about tin milk she bought that had coagulated in the tin. She wrote that they dazzled her with biochem bugabuga, which didn't answer her questions or concerns.
This was my reply to her.]
Greetings to you.
If you happen to meet with them (Nestle's officials) again, tell them that the Dutch, like most Europeans, drink only fresh milk—kept pasteurized and refrigerated. Their shelf life lasts only a few days.
No supermarket in the Netherlands sells milk in tins, and none of them sells condensed milk. You can get them only in African shops!
The reason is that the Dutch do not drink dried milk mixed with water and whatnot, which is sold to us in Africa.
The Dutch, ranked second among the world’s milk producers, produce powdered milk only for export.
Companies like Nestle bring it to Africa, add water, and deploy their marketing people to gimmick it like some healthy and highly nutritious miracle drink!
Milk is not exported to Africa in paper because it will cost more money, cutting the profit margin. Remember that fresh milk must be pasteurized and refrigerated. Imported fresh milk is mostly for expats who can afford it!
Have you ever seen a European consuming our tin milk? They don't and wouldn't, simply because they know what they put inside it.
In the Netherlands, the excess milk not sold is turned into cheese, butter, etc. The rest is dried, packaged in sacks, and shipped to Africa.
Companies like Nestle hire white-jacketed people with degrees in biochemistry and suchlike to mix and put them in tins. The fanciful white jackets and the serious-laboratory-looking edifices are needed to create the illusion that it involves some high-grade chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, science, engineering, technology, etc.
It is, as they say in Nigeria, part of the show.
The only thing that these people do is add water to the dried powdered milk.
The question here is why we should consider cow milk, especially dried milk, suitable for adult humans in Africa.
Do we see cows drink milk from their mothers after they are weaned?
Do we see other animals drink milk from another species apart from young animals that have lost their mothers?
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, months, or even years will have any nutritional value?
We certainly have a long way to go in educating ourselves about what we put into our mouths, stomachs, and, ultimately, our bodies.
We can begin our interrogation by reading up on lactose intolerance, especially for Black people.
We can also check our mental faculties on why we refuse to see a link between what we eat and the debilitating diseases that afflict us today on an epidemic scale - HBP, diabetes, and stroke, from which our parents did not suffer on a large scale and which, unfortunately, our governments in Africa are not addressing properly.
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