Food Chain Radio Show #1153

Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist

10,000 Years of Milk

Guest: Mark Kurlansky, Author Milk! A 10,000 Year Food Fracas

How did milk do our bodies good?

We have been drinking, eating, and fighting over milk since the dawn of agriculture.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – 10,000 Years of Milk!

Fighting over milk?

Why, yes, we do fight over milk. As Mark Kurlansky points out in his Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fight Fracas, we fight over…

• the importance of breastfeeding.
• the proper role of mothers in feeding babies.
• the healthful versus the unhealthful qualities of milk.
• the best sources of milk.
• how milk should be produced.
• what rights dairy animals should have.
• whether raw milk is better than pasteurized milk.
• if organic milk is better than conventional milk.
• whether soy milk is milk or juice.
• the proper role of government in the milk trade.
• whether dairy animals should be fed GMOs
• and so on, and on and on…

It’s a fight that seems to bring everyone to the boil, including gourmets, agronomists, parents, feminists, chemists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, biologists, economists, and animal lovers.

The extent to which we fight over milk, while using it to build our civilization, is a pretty good indication of its importance in our lives. And so we pause for a moment to look back at the 10,000 year history of our relationship with this food and ask:

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Tune in here, for the syndicated the Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1153 June 30, 2018 Saturday 9AM Pacific

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