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9780814719381

Nature's Perfect Food : How Milk Became America's Drink

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814719381

  • ISBN10:

    0814719384

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-02-01
  • Publisher: New York University Press

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Summary

For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as "nature's perfect food," as "indispensable" and "the most complete food." These milk "boosters" have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the American Dairy Council and its ubiquitous milk moustache ads. The image of milk as wholesome and body-building has a long history, but is it accurate?Recently, within the newest social movements around food, milk has lost favor. Vegan anti-milk rhetoric portrays the dairy industry as cruel to animals and milk as bad for humans. Recently, books with titles like, "Milk: The Deadly Poison," and "Don't Drink Your Milk" have portrayed milk as toxic and unhealthy. Controversies over genetically-engineered cows and questions about antibiotic residue have also prompted consumers to question whether the milk they drink each day is truly good for them.In Nature's Perfect Food Melanie Dupuis illuminates these questions by telling the story of how Americans came to drink milk. We learn how cow's milk, which was associated with bacteria and disease became a staple of the American diet. Along the way we encounter 19th century evangelists who were convinced that cow's milk was the perfect food with divine properties, brewers whose tainted cow feed poisoned the milk supply, and informal wetnursing networks that were destroyed with the onset of urbanization and industrialization. Informative and entertaining, Nature's Perfect Food will be the standard work on the history of milk.

Author Biography

E. Melanie DuPuia is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Consumption
Why Milk?p. 3
The Perfect Food Storyp. 17
Why Not Mother? The Rise of Cow's Milk as Infant Food in Nineteenth-Century Americap. 46
The Milk Question: Perfecting Food as Urban Reformp. 67
Perfect Food, Perfect Bodiesp. 90
Production
Perfect Farming: The Industrial Vision of Dairyingp. 125
The Less Perfect Story: Diversity and Farming Strategiesp. 144
Crisis: The "Border-Line" Problemp. 165
Alternative Visions of Dairying: Productivism and Producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and Californiap. 183
The End of Perfectionp. 210
Afterwordp. 241
Notesp. 244
Bibliographyp. 271
Indexp. 297
About the Authorp. 311
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