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Cow’s milk, and the products therefrom, has been a staple in the human diet dating back 7500 years or more. Pure, healthy, and unadulterated, this has been the image of milk for a long time. In more recent years, milk and its production have come under increasing scrutiny. Pasteurization of milk and the movement in medicine to have single healthy foods to treat disease led milk to its rise to the top of the food pyramid. It did not hurt that milk helped to reduce the incidence of rickets at a time when incidence in urban areas was staggeringly high. In recent years, however, milk has been implicated in developed countries with diseases such as obesity and heart disease, environmental issues, and animal welfare and ethics issues. On the other hand, movement to natural and organic food has led to issues concerning food safety, and whether or not we were even meant to consume milk. Production of milk...
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Cherney, D.J. (2018). Milk Production: Ethical Issues. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_452-2
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