This is the “revelation” that some crazy researchers have ‘discovered’ that normal milk is worse for you when compared to organic milk.

The site “spiked-online” had this to say:

“The issue is omega-3 fatty acids, found abundantly in oily fish (such as salmon, herring and cod), fish oil, walnut and flaxseed oil. Omega-3s have been thought to protect against cancer and heart disease, though the scientific evidence for these benefits has been thin and somewhat elusive.

Now a group of researchers (funded by the organic industry) is claiming that milk from 19 ‘conventional’ farms only contains 60 per cent as much omega-3s as milk from 17 ‘organic’ farms. They claim the finding is ‘significant’, and the press believed it. One newspaper headline in the UK declared: ‘Organic milk: it looks good, it tastes good and by golly they’ve proved it does you good.’ “

To me this is a crazy claim and one that we shall look at a little further.

The first issue here that springs to attention is that this research was conducted by the Organic Industry, this already shows that there is likely to be a bias in these results.

Essentially the only claim that they have is the difference in the omega-3 oils, which in my personal opinion are not only over-rated but also are being seen too much lately across a number of food product lines. This is also an issue due to the fact that there are different levels / types of omega-3.

To go out and claim that one milk is healthier than the other because of a single oil is borderline on preposterous, especially when this single item they claim makes it better can be collected by the body from many other sources and makes very little difference when taken from the usual amounts of milk that we all drink and eat.

The British Food Standards Agency says it will review the matter but has yet to be convinced that organic milk is any more nutritious.

Now here is the kicker! It turns out that it wasn’t even a correctly executed experiment, the key reason being that the study really compared pasture-fed cows to cows fed hay and grain, already a remarkably large difference in the two subjects.

At the end of the day milk simply isn’t a major source of omega-3 in our diets no matter how it is produced. For this very reason, along with not being able to accurately know which omega-3 oil you are actually getting, there is really no difference between any milk that you drink, meaning that after all the mooing this is a non-issue.

Keep an eye out for claims of these omega-3 oils, and I recommend you have a little read of the details so you can be aware of what to look out for.

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