an abomination

aren't dangerous things adapted, naturally, to give off warnings? poisonous fruits and animals in red, toxic substances that smell or taste bad?

last week I had a delicious french cocoa with milk that claimed to be two weeks past its date but tasted and smelled fine. today I went to open up the quart of milk that was waiting in the fridge as its replacement, and was at its pull date. smelled fine. looked fine. smelled it again. fine. poured some in a glass to test- super vile and gag-inducing.

now, doesn't milk usually smell bad first? I am frightened with the state of our food production system if one week, we can be drinking month+ old milk, and then have odorless, repulsive spoilage with barely-past dairy the next week.

where is our food coming from, and what is being done to it? does my milk even come from a cow, or a mammal for that matter? I have less and less faith in our food system, especially since moving to the east coast and further from good fresh food- I find myself more and more meatless with time, but one begins to wonder... first concern over corn and potatoes (Pollan), now milk.... oh bother.

damn toxic milk... should I be sticking to european cheese and yogurt, unsustainable as that may be? bah.