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• Got Weird? Milk Is Headed for Its Strangest Year Yet -- The New York Times (6 February 2025)
  
  
• Why has new additive Bovaer prompted people to throw Arla milk away? -- BBCNews (4 December 2024)
  
  
• ‘Toddler milk’ has no nutritional benefits, American Academy of Pediatrics reports -- CNN (20 October 2024)
  
  
• World’s oldest preserved cheese found in necklaces on mummies in China -- Popular Science (25 September 2024)
  
  
• The secret to healthier ice cream? Use a horse -- The Telegraph (7 August 2024)
  
  
• ‘It’s the great leveller, uniting people across social classes’: Grace Dent on Britain’s love affair with cheese -- The Guardian (16 September 2023
  
  
• Emmentaler: Switzerland's king of cheeses -- BBCTravel (05 September 2023)
  
  
• Farmers Say Because There Are No Teats On Almonds, It Can't Be Called "Almond Milk" -- Cowboy State Daily (02 August 2023)
  
  
• Anti-innovation and consumer choice? Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat, cheese and fish -- FoodNavigator Europe (03 April 2023)
  
  
• Soy, Oat and Almond Drinks Can Be Called Milk, F.D.A. Says -- The New York Times (23 February 2023)
  
  
• France's undisputed queens of cheese -- BBCTravel (12 October 2022)
  
  
• The truth about raw milk -- BBCReel (4 October 2022)
  
  
• Production of French salers cheese halted due to drought -- The Guardian (13 August 2022)
  
  
• Coffee bad, red wine good? Top food myths busted – The Guardian (14 May 2022)
  
  
• Upcharging for milk alternatives: unfair, illogical – and racist? – The Guardian (03 March 2022)
  
  
• Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA [milk; lactose intolerance] -- BBCNews (22 December 2021)
  
  
• Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all -- The Guardian (26 September 2021)
  
  
• Best served chilled: green tech keeps the cool on India's dairy farms – photo essay -- The Guardian (06 April 2021)
  
  
• French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers rem food religion -- The Guardian (26 March 2021)
  
  
• Making honey without bees and milk without cows -- BBCNews (23 March 2021)
  
  
• Should we be drinking milk? -- BBCReel (23 March 2021)
  
  
• I coped through the pandemic with a diet of junk food. Now I'm regretting it -- The Guardian (28 February 2021)
  
  
• 'Rock stars of American cheese': the enduring legacy of Cowgirl Creamery -- The Guardian (14 February 2021)
  
  
• Can dairy adapt to climate change? -- BBCfuture (08 December 2020)
  
  
• Impossible milk could be coming to your cereal bowl -- CNN Business (21 October 2020)
  
  
• Why China developed a fresh taste for milk -- BBCFuture (19 October 2020)
  
  
• French dairy giant accused of polluting country's famous rivers for years -- The Guardian (19 October 2020)
  
  
• Alleged animal abuse in US dairy sector under investigation -- The Guardian (15 October 2020)
  
  
• The surprising origin of burrata cheese -- BBCNews (29 September 2020)
  
  
• Trade talks: Why chicken, cheese, and cod are a tricky menu -- BBCtravel (09 September 2020)
  
  
• Activists sour on Oatly vegan milk after stake sold to Trump-linked Blackstone -- The Guardian (01 September 2020)
  
  
• Stilton drives wedge between UK-Japan Brexit deal cheese -- BBCNews (11 August 2020)
  
  
• An Australian food company is finally renaming its racially offensive cheese brand -- CNNbusiness (24 July 2020)
  
  
• Ancient Butter Dish Found in Scottish Lake Still Held Butter -- AncientOrigins (24 July 2020)
  
  
• 3 Myths About Livestock and Climate Change Debunked -- AbWeb (10 July 2020)
  
  
• US rivers and lakes are shrinking for a surprising reason: cows -- The Guardian (02 July 2020)
  
  
• Chemical evidence of dairying by hunter-gatherers in Lesotho in the first millennium AD -- PhysOrg (11 May 2020)
  
  
• The Business of Burps: Scientists Smell Profit in Cow Emissions -- The New York Times (01 May 2020)
  
  
• Americans have been souring on dairy milk for decades. Here’s how farmers are trying to win us back -- The New York Times (14 March 2020)
  
  
• Milk and Juice Are Not as Needed as You Might Think -- The New York Times (24 February 2020)
  
  
• Which milk alternative should we be drinking? -- BBCNews (10 February 2020)
  
  
• You're drinking what? Dairy lobby fights back with a new definition of the word 'milk' -- The Guardian (31 January 2020)
  
  
• Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink? -- The Guardian (29 January 2020)
  
  
• 'She can't say no': the Ugandan men demanding to be breastfed -- The Guardian (28 January 2020)
  
  
• Cut meat and dairy intake 'by a fifth', report urges -- BBCNews (23 January 2020)
  
  
• 'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession -- The Guardian (08 January 2020)
  
  
• US dairy industry suffering as Americans consume less milk -- The Guardian (06 January 2020)
  
  
• German court forced to rule as cheese smell gets up woman's nose -- BBCNews (17 December 2019)
  
  
• Is it better to drink cow’s milk or a dairy-free alternative? -- BBCFuture (24 November 2019)
  
  
• A Milk Giant Goes Broke as Americans Reject Old Staples -- The New York Times (13 November 2019)
  
  
• Ask a ‘sotan: How does the state regulate buying raw milk? -- MPRnews (07 November 2019)
  
  
• Ancient Sippy Cups Could Help Explain a Prehistoric Baby Boom -- WIRED (05 October 2019)
  
  
• Dynamite vs. dairy cows: The odd legal foundations of Minneapolis labor law -- MPRNews (03 October 2019)
  
  
• Prehistoric Parents Used Baby Bottles Made of Pottery -- The New York Times (25 September 2019)
  
  
• What Should Young Children Drink? Mostly Milk and Water, Scientists Say -- The New York Times (18 September 2019)
  
  
• Earliest direct evidence of milk consumption -- BBCNews (10 September 2019)
  
  
• Global food producers 'failing to face up to role' in climate crisis – The Guardian (04 September 2020)
  
  
• The physics professor who says online extremists act like curdled milk – The Guardian (23 August 2019)
  
  
• The floating farm for cows – BBCnews (15 August 2019)
  
  
• The plight of a US dairy farm – BBCnews (15 August 2019)
  
  
• Got Impossible Milk? The Quest for Lab-Made Dairy -- The New York Times (02 August 2019)
  
  
• US state set to outlaw calling a veggie burger a veggie burger – The Guardian (23 July 2019)
  
  
• Why Justin Trudeau is fighting over milk-- BBCtravel (23 July 2019)
  
  
• Stung by Trump’s Trade Wars, Wisconsin’s Milk Farmers Face Extinction -- The New York Times (26 April 2019)
  
  
• Should we drink milk to strengthen bones? -- BBCfuture (09 April 2019)
  
  
• These coffee snobs ban milk and sugar -- BBCworklife (03 April 2019)
  
  
• Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk? -- The Guardian (29 March 2019)
  
  
• What the Green New Deal will mean for your hamburger -- The Guardian (07 March 2019)
  
  
• Is the world ready for lab-grown meat? -- The Guardian (03 March 2019)
  
  
• Meat Is a Big Climate Issue. What About Dairy? -- The New York Times (20 February 2019)
  
  
• Why humans have evolved to drink milk -- BBCfuture (20 February 2019)
  
  
• Revealed: how big dairy pushed fattier milks into US schools -- The Guardian (04 February 2019)
  
  
• White gold: the unstoppable rise of alternative milks -- The Guardian (29 January 2019)
  
  
• Is milk healthy? Canada's new food guide says not necessarily -- BBCNews (22 January 2019)
  
  
• Italy’s practically perfect food [Parmigiano-Reggiano] -- BBCtravel (28 January 2019)
  
  
• Cowbell dispute rings out in tranquil Bavarian town -- BBC News (03 December 2018)
  
  
• Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers -- The Guardian (30 October 2018)
  
  
• America is drowning in milk nobody wants -- Bloomberg (17 October 2018)
  
  
• Yoghurts (even organic ones) 'full of sugar' -- BBCNews (19 September 2018)
  
  
• Got Milk? Or Was That Really a Plant Beverage? -- The New York Times (31 August 2018)
  
  
• Ancient Egypt: Cheese discovered in 3,200-year-old tomb -- BBCNews (18 August 2018)
  
  
• Decades Later and Far Away, Chernobyl Disaster Still Contaminates Milk -- The New York Times (08 June 2018)
  
  
• Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth -- The Guardian (21 May 2018)
  
  
• Poland’s surprisingly beautiful cheese -- BBCtravel (29 March 2018)
  
  
• As Milk Prices Decline, Worries About Dairy Farmer Suicides Rise -- MPRNews (27 February 2018)
  
  
• The Non-Dairy Milk You're About to See Everywhere -- FOOD & WINE (22 February 2018)
  
  
• Cursed are the cheesemakers: Spain and Mexico locked in manchego dispute -- The Guardian (25 January 2018)
  
  
• How bugs make cheese delicious -- BBCfuture (05 January 2018)
  
  
• Georgia’s addictive cousin to pizza? [Khachapuri]-- BBCTravel (21 November 2017)
  
  
• Now at Whole Foods: Cheaper milk, 'farm fresh' Amazon Echo -- MPRnews (28 August 2017)
  
  
• How formula milk helped women go back to work -- BBCNews (24 July 2017)
  
  
• Coconut oil 'as unhealthy as beef fat and butter' -- BBCNews (16 June 2017)
  
  
• Dairy-free diets warning over risk to bone health -- BBCNews (12 April 2017)
  
  
• Beaten to death for being a dairy farmer -- BBCNews (07 April 2017)
  
  
• The milk that lasts for months -- BBCfuture (27 March 2017)
  
  
• India's Largest Dairy Brand Prepares To Market An Acquired Taste: Camel Milk -- Shaina Shealy, NPRthesalt (15 February 2017)
  
  
• Quinoa is over: let it go. The dietary future belongs to ghee -- Guardian (05 January 2017)
  
  
• Gentrification and Junk Food: Chopped-Cheese Edition -- The New York Times (22 December 2016)
  
  
• Don't call it soy milk, Vermont congressman says -- USA TODAY (16 December 2016)
  
  
• Butter's rich history: 5 things you might not know -- MPRNews (22 November 2016)
  
  
• Hey Arkansas: Eat my queso! -- San Antonio Express-News (03 November 2016)
  
  
• Cheese: why we love it or hate it -- DairyReporter (03 November 2016)
  
  
• For Helping Immigrants, Chobani’s Founder Draws Threats -- The New York Times (31 October 2016)
  
  
• US government buys 11 million pounds of cheese to tackle dairy mountain -- The Telegraph (27 August 2016)
  
  
• Gouda Find: Divers Discover 340-Year-Old Dairy Product in Shipwreck -- Smithsonian (28 July 2016)
  
  
• A cheese made from… donkey milk? -- BBCtravel (27 July 2016)
  
  
• Want a healthier diet? Then don't believe the hype -- The Guardian (06 July 2016)
  
  
• Weird foods only a local could love -- BBCtravel (05 July 2016)
  
  
• Smoothies and fruit bars are latest targets in war on sugar -- The Telegraph (03 July 2016)
  
  
• That's a lot of cheddar: 20,000 pounds of cheese stolen in Wisconsin -- The Guardian (01 July 2016)
  
  
• The elusive cheese with no recipe [Marija Zvijezda Trappist] -- BBCtravel (15 June 2016)
  
  
• 10kgs of 2,000-year-old butter found in a bog in Ireland to go on display -- BBCfuture (15 June 2016)
  
  
• The cheese that inspired Dalí -- BBCculture (05 May 2017)
  
  
• The two word games that trick almost everyone -- BBCfuture (05 May 2016)
  
  
• Iron Age Man Was as Fond of Swiss Cheese as We Are -- ScienceDaily (21 April 2016)
  
  
• Chemical Analysis of Pottery Demonstrates Prehistoric Origin for High-Altitude Alpine Dairying -- PLoS ONE (21 April 2016)
  
  
• In defense of dairy fat -- MPRnews (18 April 2016)
  
  
• Are fried cheese curds Wisconsin's most important food innovation? -- Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel (21 April 2016)
  
  
• Paleo-Diet Debates Evolve Into Something Bigger -- Washington Post (07 March 2016)
  
  
• A Point of View: What does vanilla yogurt have to do with the secret of happiness? -- BBCNews (19 February 2016)
  
  
• Chinese gourmands' growing love of cheese -- BBCcapital (08 January 2016)
  
  
• How did Santa get hooked on cookies and milk? -- MPRNews (22 December 2015)
  
  
• Europeans Only Started Digesting Dairy 4,000 Years Ago -- Smithsonian (02 December 2015)
  
  
• Cheese Was Food of the Gods in Stone Age Britain -- Telegraph (13 October 2015)
  
  
• Here’s Why Cheese Curds Are One Of Cheese’s Best Kept Secrets [poutine] -- The Huffington Post (16 June 2014)
  
  
• A nation of tall cheese-eaters -- BBC News (29 September 2013)
  
  
• Russia's war on Western food: Detaining cheese, crushing frozen geese -- MPRNews (22 August 2015)
  
  
• First Scandinavian Farmers Were Far More Advanced Than We Thought -- ScienceNordic (17 August 2015)
  
  
• The secret to making great-tasting yoghurt -- BBC News (18 August 2013)
  
  
• The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist' -- BBCNews (05 August 2015)
  
  
• Which oils are best to cook with? -- BBCFuture (28 July 2015)
  
  
• The Swedish cheese that can’t be moved -- BBCFuture (24 July 2015)
  
  
• Everything You Need to Know About Lactose Intolerance -- New Scientist (23 July 2015)
  
  
• Cheeseheads: A Taste of Summer in America -- BBC, The Essay (07 July 2015)
  
  
• How did milk become a staple food? -- BBCFuture (06 July 2015)
  
  
• A Milk and Ochre Paint Mixture Used 49,000 Years Ago at Sibudu, South Africa -- PLoS ONE (30 May 2015)
  
  
• Will Cheez Whiz expire after Kraft-Heinz merger? -- MPRNews (29 March 2015)
  
  
• Deconstructed Nutella: nuts, cocoa – and 58% sugar -- TheGuardian (20 January 2017)
  
  
• Antiquity of dairying on Emerald Isle revealed -- Science Daily (16 January 2015)
  
  
• The strange world inside cheese -- Veronique Greenwood, BBC (17 November 2014)
  
  
• Food: How mozzarella became the perfect pizza cheese -- Veronique Greenwood, BBC (06 October 2014)
  
  
• Prehistoric dairy farming at the extremes -- Science Daily (29 July 2014)
  
  
• Medieval Italian Skeleton's Surprising Diagnosis: Livestock Disease -- LiveScience (15 July 2014)
  
  
• Little too late: Pathogenic bacterium in 700-year-old skeleton identified -- Science Daily (15 July 2014)
  
  
• Raw milk producers aim to regulate themselves -- NPR (8 July 2014)
  
  
• Lumps of Oldest Cheese Found on Mummies Necks, Chests -- Discovery News (27 February 2014)
  
  
• British Neolithic Farmers Preferred Milk Over Fish --  Past Horizons (18 Februaary 2014)
  
  
• From surf to turf: Archaeologists and chemists trace ancient British diets -- ScienceDaily (12 February 2014)
  
  
• A thousand years ago, Central Europeans digested milk as well as us today -- Science Daily (23 January 2014)
  
  
• Famine, Not Calcium Absorption, May Have Driven Evolution of Milk Tolerance in Europeans -- Science Daily (22 November 2014)
  
  
• Archaeology: The Milk Revolution -- Nature (31 July 2013)
  
  
• Why Do People Drink Milk? -- LiveScience (21 June 2013)
  
  
• Kids think fish fingers come from chicken: BNF study -- FOODManufacture.co.uk (03 June 2013)
  
  
• Dutch government to probe export of milk formula to China -- BBC News (8 May 2013)
  
  
• Archaeologists Find Ancient Evidence Of Cheese-Making -- NPR (13 December 2012)
  
  
• How humans have made cheese for more than 8,000 years -- Telegraph (13 December 2012)
  
  
• Evidence of World's 'Oldest' Cheese-Making Found -- BBC News (12 December 2012)
  
  
• How African Cattle Herders Wiped Out an Ancient Plague -- NPR (14 September 2012)
  
  
• Anglo-Saxon Woman Buried with a Cow -- Past Horizons (05 July 2012)
  
  
• Where do milk, eggs and bacon come from? One in three youths don't know -- The Telegraph (14 June 2012)
  
  
• A Tale of Two Dairies–How to End the Crisis on Our Farms -- Politics of the Plate (16 December 2010)
  
  
• 9,000-Year-Old Milk Cartons Found -- Discover (08 December 2008)

• 3,000-year-old butter found in Kildare bog -- Leinster Leader, Kildare Today (19 August 2009)
  
  
• A Tail of Two Dairies--How to End the Crisis on Our Farms -- Barry Estabrook, Gastronomica, Fall 2010, pp. 48-52
  
  
• Bones Reveal 18th and 19th-Century Breastfeeding Fads -- NewScientist (03 Novwmvwe 2011)
  
  
• Cheese curds -- Louisa Kamps, The New York Times, (17 October 2014)
  
  
• Central Europeans Were First Adults to Drink Milk -- New Scientist (28 August 2009)
  
  
• Century-Old Butter Found in Antarctica -- DiscoveryNews (16 December 2009)
  
  
• Chemical Analysis Reveals First Cheese-Making in Northern Europe 7,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (12 December 2012)
  
  
• Cows Are Key to 2,500 Years of Human Progress -- Guardian (04 April 2010)
  
  
• Cows with Names Make More Milk -- LiveScience (27 January 2009)
  
  
• Dalby, Andrew. Cheese: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
  
  
• Dairy and the US Congress -- University of Vermont Libraries
  
  
• de Garine, Igor, and Valerie de Garine, (Eds.). Drinking: Anthropological Approaches. Anthropology of Food & Nutrition Series. NY: Berghahn, 2001.
  
  
• The Feta Cheese Dispute: Issues of Regional Identification Involving EU Regulations and “National” Brands of Food -- Mike Peluso (20 November 2005)
  
  
• First Americans Brought Anthrax? -- National Geographic News (23 March 2009)
  
  
• The Foods that Make Billions -- Top Documentary Films (177 min., 2010)

  The Foods that Make Billions -- BBC Two

  The Foods That Make Billions 1 - "Liquid Gold" [bottled water industry] (2010)

  The Foods That Make Billions 2 - "The Age of Plenty" [cereals] (2010) (alternate link) (alternate link)

  The Foods That Make Billions 3 -- "Pots of Gold" [yoghurt] YouTube

  OU on the BBC: The Foods That Make Billions [including episode guides and discussions and extras] -- Open University (flyer)
  
  
• Freidberg, Susanne. "Milk: Border Politics," Ch. 6 of FRESH: A Perishable History. Harvard Belknap, 2010.
  
  
• Kirby, David. Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. NY: St. Martin's, 2010.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into The Food on Your Plate, Revised Edition. London: Penguin Books, 2013.
  
  
• Le, Stephen. 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today. NY: Picador, 2016.
  
  
• Levenstein, Harvey. Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
  
  
• McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984.
  
  
• Khosrova, Elaine. Butter: A Rich History. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2016.
  
  
• Kostioukovitch, Elena. Why Italians Love to Talk About Food. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. [English translation by Anne Milano Appel, 2009]
  
  
• Martindale's Nutrition Center Dairy, Meat, Fish, Poultry, Cereals, Fruit, Vegetalbes, Herbs etc.
  
  
• Mendelson, Ann. Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages. Alfred Knopf, 2008.
  
  
• Michelson, Patricia. Cheese: Exploring Taste and Tradition. Gibbs Smith, 2010.
  
  
• Milk Drinking Started Around 7,500 Years Ago In Central Europe -- ScienceDaily (27 August 2009)
  
  
• Milking the Sahara – 7000 years ago -- Past Horizons (26 June 2012)
  
  
• Newman, Kara. The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets. Columbia University Press, 2012.
  
  
• Of Neanderthals and dairy farmers -- Harvard University Gazette (11 December 2008)
  
  
• Paxon, Heather. "Locating Value in Artisan Cheese: Reverse Engineering Terroir for New-World Landscapes," American Anthropologist, Vol. 112, No. 3 (September 2010), pp. 444-457.
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• Pottery Shards Put a Date on Africa’s Dairying -- Nature (20 June 2012)
  
  
• Profit triples at Land O'Lakes; sales up 13% -- StarTribune (10 May 2011)
  
  
• Significance Of Milk In Development Of Culture To Be Studied -- Science Daily (9/4/08)
  
  
• Smart Meat and Dairy Guide (PDF) -- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  
  
• Stone Age Milk Use Began 2,000 Years Earlier -- National Geographic News (06 August 2008)
  
  
• Stone Age Scandinavians Unable to Digest Milk, Study Shows -- ScienceDaily (01 April 2010)
  
  
• "Syltemilk and Ecological Adaptation," Ch. 8 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
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• Vermeer's Masterpiece: The Milkmaid -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
  
• Visser, Margaret. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal. NY: Grove, 2010 [1986].
  
  
• Warner, Melanie. Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal. NY: Scribner, 2013.
  
  
• While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales -- By MICHAEL MOSS

  When sales of Domino's Pizza were lagging, a government agency stepped in with advice: more cheese. This is the same government that, for health reasons, is advising less cheese.
  [in other words, buy cheese, but don't eat it.]
  
  

• Wiley, Andrea S. Re-Imaging Milk. NY: Routledge, 2011.