Disturbing, on numerous levels

I'm not trying to melodramatic (although it usually doesn't take much effort), but student teaching definitely changed my life. I can't enjoy milk anymore. I keep remembering a rather eloquent description of corporate-owned milk production that I heard during lunch one day. I was fairly well-informed about growth hormones, etc., but according to one very green educator, modern dairy cows are subjected to forceful milking procedures and consequently experience frequent udder infections. As a result, milk is usually contaminated with pus & blood ~ "as much as a drop of pus per glass of milk," if the broken record player in my head is correct.

Dear me. Some foods just taste better with milk. Or at least, they once did. The good news is, I'll be saving money, since milk is so ridiculously expensive these days.

The researcher in me wants to find verifiable proof of this information from reputable sources . The student in me realizes that this assignment is not priority, at the moment.

And wouldn't pasteurization eliminate pus anyway? I shall endeavour to find out. Then again, the presence or condition of pus is only part of the issue.