1970's probiotic

By Value hunter on Jan 3, 2010 | In In real life, Common sense, Bad business, What is the point?

As a child, I had a pro biotic everyday of my life during the 1970s, it was called unpasteurised milk and I had it in my brews and on my breakfast.

Of course, it would never be given to a child under two years old or to an elderly person, much the same as the various "pro biotics" that we are sold in supermarkets today. They are still available today, but the laws have been changed of course, so thatÂ unpasteurised milkÂ can only come direct from a farm in your local area and not be on a supermarket shelf.
The only differences with todays products are:

They didn't cost any extra - coming directly from our milkman and in with our milk
They didn't generate any carbon emmissions or affect any carbon footprint, as unlike todays probiotics, they were not shipped in from countries as far away as New Zealand!
They were completely natural in origin, nothing added to them.

Just another way that industry has taken a product that contained something good for people, stopped providing it for free and now charges us an absolute fortune for.
Not to mention what damage it is doing to the environment that governments and business care so much about (yeh right!) with all the exporting and importing, when it used to come from round the corner from where we lived!