![]() Milk has become a global industry, produced at a scale that defies nature. That vision, illusory even at the time, is now almost completely obsolete. This imagery is so historically pervasive that in 1935, a Los Angeles milk inspector initiated the Dairy Roadside Appearance Program, encouraging farmers to clean up their land, paint their barns and plant flowers to perpetuate this milking myth to urban milk buyers. The typical dairy buyer lives in a city or a suburb, and likes to imagine that milk still comes from a small family farm with a red barn and cows grazing on a hill, where loving human hands squirt milk from the animals’ teats into a pail. But these days, we milk drinkers are so disconnected from where our milk comes from that it could well originate in a vending machine. ![]() Ever since the first cow udders were yanked by human hands, the substance has invited inspection, suspicion, fear and desire. Milk myths didn’t stop with the Greeks, though.
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