# What Type of Factory Makes Milk? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373 "2012-09-21T10:22:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/1 "2012-09-21T10:22:53Z")
Milk for most of the OECD consumers arrives in wax-coated boxes or plastic bottles. Where is it manufactured? Do you children know? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/2 "2012-09-21T10:56:38Z")
What is an OECD? I could google it and figure it out, but you use it so freely. I would think milk comes from a dairy, as for where it is stored and processed and packaged um a processing plant? ---
**Author:** ![Huvudtvatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Huvudtvatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huvudtvatt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/3 "2012-09-21T10:57:34Z")
Is this a Whoosh? The milk comes from animals called “cows”. They live at places called “Farms”. The owner of the farm (“Farmer”) sells the milk to a “Dairy” or “Milk processing plant” where it is processed and packaged. (Sometimes these plants are owned by farmers’ collectives). The plastic-coated paper boxes was an invention by the company Tetra-pak. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/4 "2012-09-21T11:01:42Z")
Mmm, tell me more about these “cows”. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/5 "2012-09-21T11:03:28Z")
OECD = Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Basically the “nicer” countries to live in. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/6 "2012-09-21T11:08:09Z")
Next you’ll be telling me that there’s a “magic animal” that we get pork, ham AND bacon from. But I think Post #3 covers the OP as much as can be answered. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/7 "2012-09-21T11:50:26Z")
I dunno about them “cows” and “milk” stuff, …but, man, what I wanna know is where they make chickens. There’s something wrong with the factory where they make the whole chickens—The individual parts are pretty nicely packaged and well manufactured. But if you buy a new, complete unit it comes with all kinds of extra , yukky stuff inside. I don’t get it—it must cost the factory more to make all that stuff, and then somehow insert it inside the chicken . Why bother? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/8 "2012-09-21T11:53:25Z")
Chickens are a great invention. You put bugs and corn in one end and eggs come out the other. How cool is _that_? ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/9 "2012-09-21T12:03:35Z")
> [@Ken001](#): > > Where is it manufactured? In cow tits. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/10 "2012-09-21T12:04:06Z")
You know what I like? Those little baby hot dogs. Do they small down the regular ones, or do they make 'em different? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/11 "2012-09-21T12:30:33Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You know what I like? Those little baby hot dogs. Do they small down the regular ones, or do they make 'em different? I don’t know, but they come with this delicious red sauce that it looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, _it ain’t ketchup_! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/12 "2012-09-21T13:30:38Z")
Cheese and yogurt are made from Milk. Which again comes from the mythical “Cow”. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/13 "2012-09-21T13:48:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Next you’ll be telling me that there’s a “magic animal” that we get pork, ham AND bacon from.(snip) And supposedly this magical animal produces sausage as well. Well I’ve made sausage, and I hope you don’t expect me to believe that a hooved animal can stuff sausage casings. They just don’t have the dexterity or the patience. Someone is pulling our legs. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/14 "2012-09-21T13:51:09Z")
And you know what this “cow” also produces? Hamburgers!! Yep, that’s one versatile mythical beast alright. ---
**Author:** ![SubaRhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@SubaRhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SubaRhubarb)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/15 "2012-09-21T13:51:13Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You know what I like? Those little baby hot dogs. Do they small down the regular ones, or do they make 'em different? You see, when a mommy and daddy hot dog love each other very much… ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/16 "2012-09-21T13:53:08Z")
> [@SubaRhubarb](#): > > You see, when a mommy and daddy hot dog love each other very much… someone jumps out and chops off daddy hot dog’s “wiener” and there you have your smaller version. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/17 "2012-09-21T13:55:44Z")
The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was that it was a joke, but then I thought of what I have heard about people who really think that all food comes from factories; e.g., vegetables are made out of some kind of paste in a factory. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/18 "2012-09-21T13:58:09Z")
From a D&D game I was told about: Monster: Where cheese come from? Human: It comes from cows. Monster: But, when me kill cow, me no see cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/19 "2012-09-21T13:58:15Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > And you know what this “cow” also produces? Hamburgers!! > > Yep, that’s one versatile mythical beast alright. No, hamburgers come from McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373/20 "2012-09-21T14:00:52Z")
> [@Huvudtvatt](#): > > Is this a Whoosh? > > The milk comes from animals called “cows”. They live at places called “Farms”. The owner of the farm (“Farmer”) sells the milk to a “Dairy” or “Milk processing plant” where it is processed and packaged. (Sometimes these plants are owned by farmers’ collectives). The plastic-coated paper boxes was an invention by the company Tetra-pak. This. I’ve seen cows being milked. The result is milk, and I think you could drink it straight, but I believe it is later processed to help preserve it and to reduce fat. That could happen at a plant outside the farm. Then you get what you see at the grocery store. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-type-of-factory-makes-milk/635373.md?page=2)