The couple being profiled adopt children, so they are buying food for 11 people. In context, 12 gallons of milk per week is a little over a pint per day per person, which is not unusual if you drink a glass per person per day and use some for cooking throughout the week.

It continues to amuse me that the whole reason we are currently performing this leftist experiment is because it was supposed to increase our material standard of living, and now that leftism is demonstrably responsible for its decline we are being criticized for living decadently for wanting something as basic as a glass of milk per day. My great-grandparents who were poor subsistence farmers were able to provide that.

The couple being profiled adopt children, so they are buying food for 11 people. In context, 12 gallons of milk per week is a little over a pint per day per person, which is not unusual if you drink a glass per person per day and use some for cooking throughout the week.

It continues to amuse me that the whole reason we are currently performing this leftist experiment is because it was supposed to increase our material standard of living, and now that leftism is demonstrably responsible for its decline we are being criticized for living decadently for wanting something as basic as a glass of milk per day.