Milk

Milk is a pale liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for infant mammals before they are able to digest other types of food.

A glass of pasteurized cow's milk

Federal Art Project poster promoting milk drinking in Cleveland, 1940

Quotes

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A - K

•   In petticoat of green,
    Her hair about her eyne,
    Phyllis beneath an oak
    Sat milking her fair flock:
  ’Mongst that sweet-strainèd moisture, rare delight,
  Her hand seemed milk, in milk it was so white.
  • William Drummond, "Phyllis" in Poems (1616)

• The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.
  • Michael Klaper, speech of July 19, 1985. Quoted in David Robinson Simon, Meatonomics (San Francisco: Conari Press, 2013), p. 193

O - R

• You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies.
  • George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945), Chapter 1

• Cow milk has no valid claim as the perfect food. As nutrition, it produces allergies in infants, diarrhea and cramps in the older child and adult, and may be a factor in the development of heart attacks and strokes. Perhaps when the public is educated as to the hazards of milk only calves will be left to drink the real thing. Only calves should drink the real thing.
  • Frank Oski, Don't Drink Your Milk! (Brushton, NY: TEACH Services, 1996), p. 84

S - Z

• Civilized men know the art of preparing nutritious foods from milk. For instance, in our temples and monasteries we make hundreds of first-class preparations from milk. Whenever visitors come, they are astonished that from milk such nice foods can be prepared. The blood of the cow is very nutritious, but civilized men utilize it in the form of milk. Milk is nothing but cow's blood transformed. You can make milk into so many things – yogurt, curd, ghee (clarified butter), and so on – and by combining these milk products with grains, fruits, and vegetables, you can make hundreds of preparations. This is civilized life – not directly killing an animal and eating its flesh.
  • A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Science of Self-Realization (1977), as quoted in The Higher Taste, The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

See also

• Cattle
• Cheese