Once upon a time, cows were milked in Brooklyn's
Prospect Park. The city dairy provided a safe, affordable source of nutrition for children in 19th-century New York, and was an important bulwark against one of the city's most insidious killers: swill milk. The dairy and its cows have disappeared, but the story of the
swill milk scandals lives on.
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posted by MonkeyToes
on Sep 15, 2010 -
28 comments
Nomadic Milk. Dutch artist Esther Polak uses GPS, white sand, and a robot to explore traditional versus industrial milk economies in Nigeria.
posted by shakespeherian
on Jul 12, 2010 -
5 comments
April 26, 1979, Andy Kaufman performed for a sold-out crowd in Carnegie Hall, who were welcomed to their seat by a
"press kit" containing a bag of jelly beans, a program and flier for the show, and other copied material, supposedly put together by Andy's mother. The show starting off with
an impersonation of Tony Clifton and ending by
taking the audience of 2,800 out for milk and cookies. About 10 months later on February 20, 1981, Kaufman hosted an episode of
Fridays, ABC's attempt to duplicate the success of NBC's
Saturday Night Live. Instead of performing the show as rehearsed, he took the entire cast and crew, the studio audience and
a nation of television viewers hostage. Video links and more details inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jul 1, 2010 -
30 comments
Yeah, yeah, it starts with a cow. But really, where did your milk come from?
Decode the product info on your milk or other dairy product, then pinpoint its origin at
Where is My Milk From?
posted by gemmy
on Apr 22, 2010 -
43 comments
Michael Schmidt has been found
not guilty of selling raw milk in the province of Ontario. Schmidt owns a
dairy co-op where consumers can purchase shares in a dairy herd and receive a portion of the
raw milk those cows produce in return. His farm was
raided and his equipment seized at gun point back in 2006. Experts are predicting this decision could have wide ranging effects on the rights of consumers to choose what they purchase and eat.
posted by talkingmuffin
on Jan 21, 2010 -
57 comments
If there's one thing that MeFites are absolutely universal in loving, it's the TV show Mad Men. Right? Right? Well, here's something that even the haters will enjoy :
Milk Men - A Mad Men Parody
posted by Afroblanco
on Nov 7, 2009 -
61 comments
On August 12, President Obama
will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to the late
gay-rights pioneer Harvey
Milk. Lesbian tennis star Billy Jean King and Teddy Kennedy will also be honored that day.
Previous recipients include Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi, Colin Powell (twice), Muhammad Ali, Mother Theresa, Elie Wiesel, Vint Cerf, George Tenet (
Bush fail), Irving Kristol (WTF?) Dick Cheney, Walter Cronkite, Julia Child, and Lucille Ball. Now about that
DOMA thing...
posted by digaman
on Jul 30, 2009 -
89 comments
Dr. Richard F. Daines,
NY Dept. of Health Commissioner wants you to understand why a
soda tax should be approved there. It's the new youtube video
soda vs milk, and if you dream of seeing a guy standing in his kitchen sliding trays and cans across countertops like he just stepped out of 1978, you're in for a treat.
posted by cashman
on Dec 31, 2008 -
43 comments
Thirty years ago yesterday (November 27, 1978) San Francisco Board of Supervisor
Harvey Milk and Mayor
George Moscone were assassinated by
Dan White, another city supervisor. Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the U.S. Prior to his death he championed a movement against a California proposition (Proposition 6, dubbed the
Briggs Initiative) which sought to ban gays and lesbians, and anyone who supported gay rights, from working in California's public schools. In the midst of a national right-wing, conservative, religious movement heralded by folks like
Anita Bryant the proposition was soundly defeated. Fast forward to today. A new film "
Milk" [
trailer] (starring Sean Penn in the title role) is
garnering critical acclaim and is relevant to current events. "
Harvey came up against a lot of obstacles, which I think is the case for any gay man now," says Brolin, who plays Dan White [in the film]. "The irony is that Prop 8 is now what Prop 6 was then."
posted by ericb
on Nov 28, 2008 -
60 comments
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear. "Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination."
posted by homunculus
on Apr 3, 2008 -
77 comments
Pepsiwhite It's a cheezy, calcium-fueled enticement, but the implementation is rather good. A single player 3d board game with a milky message.
posted by Sparx
on Apr 5, 2007 -
35 comments
the origin of fun bags. The age old question of where breasts came from
may have finally been answered!
[boobs] first evolved as an immunoprotective gland that produced bacteriocidal secretions to protect the skin and secondarily eggs and infants, and that lactation is a highly derived kind of inflammation response. [...] Milk is actually a kind of anti-microbial snot mixed in with a lot of fat and sugar.
All vertebrates have an innate immune system consisting of molecules which are hostile to microbes. It appears that the nutritional content of the milk is a product of mutation and repurposing of these immunological molecules! Xanthine oxidoreductase, which produces natural preservatives and disinfectants is also responsible for the essential role of encapsulating fat droplets which promotes suspension in water. Lactose (sugar) "requires a specific synthetic complex consisting of β-1,4 galactosyltransferase and α-lactalbumin for its production." As it turns out, α-lactalbumin is a modified (mutated) version of an awesome little molecule that literally skins bacteria alive - lysozyme!
posted by Tryptophan-5ht
on May 20, 2006 -
127 comments
Milkmen. "David could do it simply through suggestion. He began telling himself that he would lactate, and within a week, one of his breasts swelled up and milk began dripping out." (SFW, but not for my sense of genetic order)
posted by adamms222
on Sep 23, 2004 -
31 comments
Milk and cereal, milk and cereal, milk and cereal, milk and cereal, milk and cereal, milk and cereal, milk and cereal,
cereal and milk. (6MB .swf)
posted by emelenjr
on Dec 13, 2003 -
16 comments
How do you get teens to crave milk?
Load it with caffeine. "We're giving teens the caffeine they want but also vitamins, calcium and protein" ...and also a lot more calories.
posted by bluno
on Nov 6, 2003 -
32 comments
Milk is bad for you? Is nothing sacred? When I was growing up, milk was about the purest, cleanest and healthiest thing you could drink (except maybe for the warm carton that we were give at school every day). Now, it seems, we have been killing ourselves slowly by drinking the wrong
kind of milk. The
authorities and some
vested interests are not convinced, but there certainly seems to be quite a bit of evidence to support the theories.
posted by dg
on Mar 31, 2003 -
25 comments
Got Milk? High? Do we really need a town called Got Milk?, Calif.? One town is thinking about changing its name to get money. Is this a cool idea, or are marketing people going nuts?
posted by scudder
on Oct 30, 2002 -
21 comments
Notmilk.com hacked? A growing feud between the notmilk man Robert Cohen, who wrote
Milk: The Deadly Poison and
VegSource.com who hosted his site leads to VegSource removing all content from the notmilk.com site. Cohen sends out a newsletter saying that his site had been hacked, VegSource
responds and calls Cohen a
"big fat liar". Is this an abuse of VegSource's discretion? Is this just petty name calling? Whose extreme views will reign supreme here in Vegan Stadium!?
posted by jonah
on Feb 6, 2002 -
8 comments
