Nature's Perfect Food How Milk Became America's Drink

Name: Nature's Perfect Food How Milk Became America's Drink
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ISBN: 9780814719381

ISBN-10: 0814719384

ISBN-13: 9780814719381

Edition: 2002

Authors: E. Melanie Dupuis

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For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as nature's perfect food. More recently, vegans have portrayed milk as bad for humans. This book tells the story of how Americans came to drink milk.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

E. Melanie DuPuis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink .ï¿½



Acknowledgments



Consumption



Why Milk?



The Perfect Food Story



Why Not Mother? The Rise of Cow's Milk as Infant Food in Nineteenth-Century America



The Milk Question: Perfecting Food as Urban Reform



Perfect Food, Perfect Bodies



Production



Perfect Farming: The Industrial Vision of Dairying



The Less Perfect Story: Diversity and Farming Strategies



Crisis: The "Border-Line" Problem



Alternative Visions of Dairying: Productivism and Producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and California



The End of Perfection


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author