The reason why I choose the topic of dairy is because milk is one of the drinks that I grew up with and I didn’t know about its history and how it the milk industry went from small farms to big corporate farms.
Milk is supposed to be one of most important essentials in people’s homes, but I was really surprised to read about the conditions that our milk goes through in its processing. In the early days of dairy farming cows were kept in overcrowded and unhealthy barns and they are fed with waste residue from grains used in nearby liquor breweries. By the 1800’s, laws started to changes to make production safer but with our refrigeration and proper handing milk quality didn’t improve very much. At the end of the 19th century local governments pushed for the pasteurization of all milk which put a lot small dairy out of business because they couldn’t afford the equipment and the cost that was involve with it.
Today the majority of our milk is in the hands of a few big corporations and they are totally control of our dairy produce. Even though these large corporations have made milk “safe” It has been through processes which have caused milk to be unhealthy in another way. They have adding hormones, unnatural feed and new technologies to milk the cows faster.
The milk that my family grew up drinking for many years was the most pure milk that anybody can drink as it was provided for us by a nearby farm right after they milked the cow. These cows are not fed with dead cow’s parts or injected with hormones to produce greater amount of milk like the large corporate farms.
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