So, at work today I heard a guy talking about the pus in milk. I had no idea what he was talking about so of course I googled it. Apparently milk isn't the only thing that you're drinking after you pour yourself a glass of milk...
Disgusting right? I thought so too. Check out the chart below. Yeah, it's a little outdated (2001), but still...A dairy cow filters ten-thousand quarts of blood through her udder each day and uses dead white blood cells (somatic cells) to manufacture her milk. These dead cells are pus cells. Dairy scientists are aware that when one quart of milk is tainted with 400 million or more pus cells, some 35% of the milking cows in the herd are infected with mastitis. Udders bleed, discharges, including bacteria and blood drip into the milk.
(The following list contains the number of pus cells expressed per milliliter of milk... about the size of a thimbleful. To obtain the number of pus cells per LITER of milk [about one quart] please add three zeros to the following numbers) AL - 444,000 AZ - 360,000 AR - 486,000 CA - 298,000 CO - 312,000 CT - 310,000 DE - 386,000 FL - 548,000 GA - 407,000 ID - 320,000 IL - 322,000 IN - 343,000 IA - 333,000 KS - 476,000 KY - 413,000 LA - 479,000 ME - 290,000 MD - 351,000 MA - 308,000 MI - 287,000 MN - 420,000 MS - 442,000 MO - 437,000 MT - 248,000 NE - 443,000 NV - 330,000 NH - 299,000 NJ - 339,000 NM - 311,000 NY - 280,000 NC - 364,000 ND - 344,000 OH - 327,000 OK - 483,000 OR - 286,000 PA - 317,000 RI - 206,000 SC - 404,000 SD - 459,000 TN - 413,000 TX - 342,000 UT - 284,000 VT - 302,000 VA - 333,000 WA - 275,000 WV - 422,000 WI - 297,000 WY - 341,000
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