Why Goat Milk LegatoGelato instead of Cow Ice Cream

Shelter/Living Space:

My goats have a humane, enriched life, live in a stable herd, and have access to shelter, toys, and the outdoors 24/7. Modern dairy cows live in cement floored indoor barns, no toys, no sunshine, no grass, no soft dirt to lie on and 100+ other cows to compete with for food and water and resting stalls.

Feed Eaten:

My goats eat a barley-based food that you could eat as breakfast cereal. It is completely vegetarian, no soy or corn. They have mangers full of alfalfa hay & grass hay: free-choice minerals, grass, weeds, and branches to nibble on in their pasture. They get lots of fresh air and sunshine. They go out onto crown land to eat wild plants about twice a week. Everything they eat smells great. Dairy cows get silage, which is corn, and hay, chopped, compacted into a pit or plastic tube and allowed to ferment, like sauerkraut, but it smells terrible. They also get processed grain that is mixed and pounded so they can’t pick out the best parts; they have to eat it all.

Milk produced:

          Goat milk: Has more Calcium, more Vitamin A and less Lactose.

          My goat milk (Snapdragon Dairy) is produced in a clean environment with healthy       animals. Clean happy animals get less disease.

          My goat milk can be used raw (18 years & counting for myself).

          My goat milk has some of the best test results in BC (extremely low bacteria counts).

Cow milk:  Well it would depend on the dairy, the environment the cows live in and the husbandry of the dairy people. National pasteurization of all milk in Canada has lead to (in my opinion) a lack of cleanliness & hygiene with many dairies, mainly in the living areas of the cows, not the milking parlors. However, some leave much to be desired.

         

Gelato:

          Much less fat than ice cream

          Made from milk, not cream

          Smoother & Richer

          More fruit & flavour

          Served warmer, easier to eat

LegatoGelato:

          Made with lovely, wholesome, fresh, local goat’s milk

          Organic or Local (or both) Ingredients

          Amazing flavours

          No fillers, additives, gums, agars, gels, chemical stabilizers, or emulsifiers are used.

Nothing added that isn’t REAL FOOD. You can read and recognize every single ingredient on our label.

          Made slowly, carefully and with attention to every little step.

Why NOT LegatoGelato?