Milk Comes from Cows!
When you pour milk on your cereal, do you know where it came from? A cow!
Dairy cows are raised on farms. Farmers wake up very early every morning — sometimes at 4 AM! — to milk their cows. Cows need to be milked every day, rain or shine.
The milk goes from the cow into a big refrigerated tank on the farm. Then a special truck picks up the milk and takes it to a processing plant. There, the milk is heated to kill any germs (this is called pasteurization) and put into cartons, jugs, or bottles.
From that one cow's milk, we also get:
- Cheese — milk is thickened and aged to make cheese
- Yogurt — milk is fermented with special bacteria
- Butter — cream is churned until it solidifies
- Ice cream — cream, sugar, and flavors are frozen
- Cream — the fatty part of milk that rises to the top
A single dairy cow can produce about 6-7 gallons of milk per DAY! That is enough for about 96 glasses. Thank you, cows!