# New Milk Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 3, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916 "2000-08-03T00:29:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916/1 "2000-08-03T00:29:02Z")

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Where do cows get the calcium that goes into their milk? Are they supplemented, or is grass loaded with Ca?

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**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916/2 "2000-08-03T02:46:53Z")

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Before green grasses undergo the reproductive cycle that creates the grains they contain about the same vitamins and minerals as dark green vegetables…Calcium for example.

The other theory is that ruminants absorb calcium via their hooves through osmosis.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916/3 "2000-08-03T03:03:11Z")

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You have to test your forage for calcium and phosphorus, and if there isn’t enough, the cows have to have supplements, just like any other lactating mammals required to put out at about 500% capacity over and above what Mother Nature intended.  
[http://www.hitechdeterg.co.nz/animal\_health/table\_4.htm](http://www.hitechdeterg.co.nz/animal_health/table_4.htm)

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916/4 "2000-08-03T04:11:01Z")

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> New Milk Question

I have a new milk question - is New Milk like New Coke? Did they go reformulating this, too?  
😃

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**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916/5 "2000-08-03T13:49:36Z")

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Reformulated milk, **Smeghead**? Is that supposed to reduce CO and HC emissions?

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**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-milk-question/27916/6 "2000-08-03T14:34:29Z")

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> \*Originally posted by KeithT \*  
> \*\*to reduce CO and HC emissions? \*\*

i thought that’s what those lactaid pills do. hmmm.