"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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 the milk we drink in the morning, to the leather shoes we slip on for the day, to the steak we savor at dinner. From birth milk is the sustaining and essential food of all mammals. Thought provoking and informative, Cow restores this oft-overlooked animal to the nobility it richly deserves.Milk-“It does a body good.” It’s difficult to deny the truth of the American Dairy Council’s former advertising campaign. She explores in engaging detail how despite cattle’s prominence at two ends of a wide spectrum: Hinduism venerates the cow as one of the most sacred members of the animal kingdom, while beef is a prized staple of the American diet. From there, Cow launches into a fascinating story of religious fanaticism, scientific exploits, and the economic transformations engendered by the trade of the numerous products derived from the animal. Yet there is a far more complex story behind this seemingly benign creature, which Hannah Velten explores here, plumbing the rich trove of myth, fact, and legend surrounding these familar animals.įrom the plowing field to the rodeo to the temple, Velten tracks the constantly changing social relationship between man and cattle, beginning with the domestication of aurochs around 9000 BCE. From the milk we drink in the morning, to the leather shoes we slip on for the day, to the steak we savor at dinner, our daily lives are thoroughly bound up with cows.
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