Never had goat milk. My parents would drive about 15 miles every friday after work to a small farm. There we would get milk right from the cow. Fresh laid eggs and sometimes even a just killed chicken or two.

By the time you would get home, the milk had settled in the glass gallon jugs. My parents would skim off the two inches of sweet cream and save it. When they had enough they would pour it into a wide mouth pickle jug. My job was to shake it till it turned to butter.

We drank some of the milk and poured some into quart jars and let it congeal and had our own home made yogurt.

In the fall the farmer would butcher a hog and we would split it with another family. Then my dad set up a 55 gal drum and smoke the ham and bacon in the back yard.

The old farmer was fantastic as he told tales of the old days to this wide eyed kid. If anyone is intrested there was a story of how Elliot Ness himself, sat outside his farm, and staked out the place.

I drink soy milk.
As an infant (after weening) my folks bought a goat. Only thing I could hold down.
Oddly, I’ve always had a special affinity for goats.

Even the farmers no longer have gardens, except for the Amish community which believes in raising their own fruits and vegtables.

As for health care, we don’t need more legislation or governmeant involvement. No matter how well intentioned many bills are, as they solve one problem, they tend to create many more. Just find out what the four or five leading causes for high health care and work from their to solve the problems.

Supposedly compatition betwen the insurance companies, just like in auto insurance, is supposed to lower rates, why is so little emphasis put on it. Could it be congress doesn’t want to step on toes?

Xman talking to a thirty year old female about health food can’t be considered healthy eating. And drink more milk, we have to sweeten you up.