According to Sanz, this is the industry’s »battle against its own ghosts and monsters,« again clashing with the interests of the animals involved. Today, with increasing ammonia emissions, the industry with its violent modern reproduction methods along with its automated barns is confronted with demands from NGOs for drastic measures: cutting the farm-animal population by half to protect nature and biodiversity. Víctor Muñoz Sanz aims to »think along how we stopped caring about our cows as companions and how to move forward.« Introducing the concept of cow’s ✿ive Freedoms« – freedom from hunger, discomfort, pain, and stress, and to express their natural behavior, he exposes these codes that were released from the UK Farm Welfare Council in the nineteen-sixties as one reason to justify automated solutions for dairy farming. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.This comprehensive essay looks into the relationship between humans and Dutch dairy cattle, which of course involves exploitation and cruelty. Milk will surprise and entertain in equal measure. This highly illustrated exploration of one of the most fundamental foods and drinks also includes recipes for ice-cream, milkshakes, and even milk paint.

Now that milk is considered a staple of a healthy and balanced diet, Velten investigates how and why conceptions of milk have shifted in the public consciousness, from the science of nutrition to the dairy industry’s advertising campaigns. Yet milk in the time before these scientific processes was even less natural than today-known then as the white poison, it was bacteria-ridden, mixed with additives to make it look like milk after the cream was removed, filled with chemicals to promote its shelf life, and extremely watered down. Nonetheless, there are many advocates of raw milk that long for the days before pasteurization, homogenization, and standardization. Modern milk processing produces a safe, clean beverage that is very different from pure milk straight from the cow. In Milk, Hannah Velten explores the myths and misconceptions surrounding the ubiquitous drink. And yet, despite that natural relationship to milk, the majority of the world’s population cannot digest it in the form most often available to adults-cow’s milk. From birth milk is the sustaining and essential food of all mammals. Milk-“It does a body good.” It’s difficult to deny the truth of the American Dairy Council’s former advertising campaign.

Milk by Hannah Velten