Ohh here [Czech rep.] we used to have these plastic bags! I googled the images to see what exactly they look like, and I remember them from when I was a child. But you don't see them in shops any more. Now it's usually just carton boxes of different sizes, or plastic bottles. Definitely more comfortable to handle than the bags XD

wait, i just remembered: I DID use milk bags before, but they were the tiny snack size ones. Annoying since none of us bring scissors around so we needed to poke the thing with a straw and make sure it didn't splurt anywhere. >_<;;;

Around 2nd/3rd year of highschool, they changed to small cartons.

Bag chocolate milk looks delicious.
Personally, i buy cartons.

Simple plastic bags...bottles sometimes too

Usually cartons and sometimes plastic bags

I've never seen milk in bags before, but considering the bagged egg (the liquid kind) we get where I work, I could see that happening.

Wabbit: I've read similar things about plastic... Unfortunately, I've never seen milk that doesn't come in plastic. even the cartons are plastic coated on the inside so it doesn't soak through.

I love that this topic has made it onto Amaranthia! I'm from Ontario (apparently the milk bag thing is an eastern Canada thing and not out west) and I never even considered it to be something out of the norm until our papers reported the Youtube ad. Thinking about it I realized that most of the places I've been haven't had bags...of course the 'shelf milk' I got while living in France was a whole other thing altogether lol. Anyhow, to answer the question, I'm obviously a bag girl!

@KTC

I remember those! I remember making a little bit of mess with them.

@Astral
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Pssh! Ontarians are perfectly capable of pouring milk from bags. In fact, we have our own (superior) secret art but we just hide that fact from you guys out east

@Wolfie
Bagged.....eggs?!

@Jayshe
Haha, we must read the same newspaper, then xD
Honestly, when I first read it, I thought it was weird that people thought this was weird! LOL

@Wabbit
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I've heard people make this claim before. Still, though, plastic jugs are the same, aren't they? And as Wolfie mentioned, there's a coating along cartons to ensure the milk doesn't soak through. It's hard to get away from plastic =/

@wolfie: ditto aeternus, what are bagged eggs? O.o?

never heard anything about milk+plastic=bad and my mum's a nurse. We heard microwaveable plastic+microwave= bad but not plastic+milk=bad.

Its not only a eastern canada thing. I live in BC and we had milk in bags as well.not sure if any really carry anymore.
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Haha, I've never heard of milk coming in a bag (though technically, they originate from the cow in a sort of "bag" right o.O?)

I haven't had actual cow milk by the glass in a while. I maybe have a glass or two if there is some special occasion and there's chocolate cake around other than that, I try to avoid milk. It's actually quite unhealthy for you. Cow milk is filled with antibiotics and hormones, and really doesn't serve much of a purpose. Tasty, of course, but I consider it a dessert item XD

It must sound weird, I apologize

hormones= unhealthy is a myth (they need to be injected into you to have any effect at all. Drinking it will not affect you. probably get melted away by your stomach acids). The antibodies thing was never proven and seems more like fear inducers.

Milk is excellent easily absorbed source of calcium, protein, and as for the fat: you can always get skim though it taste like water. Milk is obviously also a major ingredient in many dishes. So obviously, it has purpose.

I buy milk in gallon jugs.When i was a child my mother bought it from farmers in gallon glass bottles.

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I assume it would be a big bag of uncooked scrambled egg. For restaurants/hotels/places that need to make tons of food/etc., a big bag of liquid egg would be much more efficient/cost effective than having a dude cracking eggs all day and all night.

Actually, KTC, while it is true that a lot of hormones, which are essentially proteins, get denatured by the stomach's acids, this is not entirely true for hormones suspended in milk. There are many who use milk as a temporary relief for stomach acidity. This is because milk acts as a buffer, neutralizing to a significant extent, the acid levels of the stomach. Although this doesn't guarantee absorption of hormones, it certainly opens the door for it. Wide.

Furthermore, it should be no surprise that antibodies are absorbed from oral ingestion. Remember that a function of milk is to provide humoral immunity to newborns. The milk is designed to help in antibody absorption.

The problem is that there are few ventures into establishing the effect of commercial milk on humans. It's important to note that studies against milk in the US are not well funded simply because the milk industry is quite large. We need to be wary about bias when dealing with American studies. The very fact that milk is such a big industry in and of itself is reason to perform more studies. People are drinking this stuff every day.

A 2009 Japanese study showed that male mice developed significant adverse reproductive effects when given cow's milk daily. Though weak, it raises questions.

Another 2009 study conducted in Japan showed that estrogens and quite possibly other hormones, were present in significant amounts in the human bloodstream by ingestion.

A 2008 Finnish study correlated cow's milk with insulin resistance, raising questions about the rise of diabetes. Countries like the US are predisposed to diabetes due to the high calorie diets most Americans have. Additional factors like milk consumption may account for the spike in the diabetes epidemic.

Most studies detailing the harmful effects of milk come from foreign countries, showing the reluctance and inherent bias of milk-drinking countries to hurt their industries.

Regardless of harm, though, cow's milk has little to no positive effects for humans. It is nothing but tradition that keeps Western Europe and America drinking milk. Milk drinkers are actually the minority by far in comparison to the global population. In that case, I do try to tell people to reduce their consumption of cow milk and increase the consumption of soy milk, which helps lower cholesterol and protect against heart disease.

the japanese one: male mice doesn't equate to humans.

estrogen: but does it do anything and what type of estrogen are we talking about. (I'm pretty skeptical of the effects anyway since one of my male teachers is an absolute milk lover yet I don't see him developing breasts. Going from some personal problems, the supposed milk estrogen floating in your system isn't affecting you if at all either. So somethings wrong here.)

finish: correlation doesn't mean it makes it happen. US is a poor example because most of us like to eat sweet stuff and other sugar stuff increasing diabetes. I can use my dad as an example who's lactose intolerant (he doesn't drink milk) yet is almost diabetic.

The soy milk you enjoy has its own supposed dangers as well so you're merely trading one 'evil' for another 'evil'.

positive effects: you're neglecting the easy source of calcium, protein, and the part where its a cooking ingredient. *shrugs*

point being: unless there's clear causation that milk is bad for you (causation, not correlation) I'll be drinking my 2% milk and use it for milk tea. (or unless my mum tells us something different cuz my mum's a health freak and she bugs us on anything remotely health related. She never mentioned anything about milk.)

OMG, It is so weird, I have come across with a poll about this on other forums, LOL!
Tho, I prefer milk in cartons.