[Cheese] A story about draining whey

[Jack Schmidling]

JOHN MURREN wrote:
> Who's jumping to conclusions?  Isn't it a good thing that corporate
> America is finding another use for whey?

Yes.  My point was the motivation not the utility of doing it.

>And I disagree that, in
> this case, it's only because of the sugar; it's very well known that
> a great deal of protein gets thrown away with the whey, and these
> guys love being able to note the added protein content on their label
> that the whey provides.....

They can do the same thing with soy protein but whey is obviously cheaper.

>I also doubt that the "whey problem" is as
> significant as you state,

You are free to doubt it but I think if you look into the issue you will 
find it a major expense of cheese production.

>as long as America still has a pork
> industry, why would they need to dump it?

Because of the transportation costs to get it to the pigs.  It costs as 
much or more to ship $3 per ton whey as it does to ship $3 a gallon 
gasoline.  The sewer was the least expensive alternative.

js

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