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Experts asking whether milk is racist in tax-payer funded project

Academics at the History of Science Museum in Oxford will research the 'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies' with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Kiwi Pete]

There is more brown stuff coming out of a cow than white stuff.
Is this observation "white supremacist" or am I OK to farm cattle for their ability to sh!t?

f**king academics

 

[Tarw Coch]

Experts, academics, this is the sort of stuff that me an my mates could discuss when seriously pi$$ed cos there’s no way we would even think of it when sober.
Question is, how do we go about getting some of this government cash so we can get pi$$ed and talk sh!t.
One good thing, at least the countries finances must be very good if they’ve got money to chuck around on stuff like this

 

[jondear]

Wtf is this being led by a vegan organization by any chance ?

 

[Danllan]

Snow is racist, ban igloos, no more snow men, blockade the Antarctic, end Winter!

How can anyone even consider voting for Reform, it will do none of the above...?

 

[Vorest Tat]

What a load of b.s.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

Like this:

Milk

Our major new exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture.

wellcomecollection.org

Desperate to link milk to our colonial past.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Is it all part of a move to undermine wholesome natural healthy foods to make it easier to get people to accept the newly emerging fake foods?
I’m sure most people will see this as total Bollox but it’s the drip drip drip effect that slowly changes peoples opinions

 

[BrianV]

Report on a news programme the other day regarding almond milk, they pointed out that the number of actual real almonds in a LITRE of ”almond “ milk was NINE the rest was a mixture of various additives, maybe they would be better off using the money to expose this more widely

The Truth about Almond Milk Sustainability: better than cow

Almond milk isn't worse for sustainability than cows milk. Don't believe the reports that it's very unsustainable and just as bad as cows milk

www.nestandglow.com

 

[Poorbuthappy]

They hadn't better mention tea then

 

[Exfarmer]

I am sorry , but speaking as a dairy farmer for many years I noticed a very strong racism by many, if not all farmers in the industry. It was absolutely shocking at times and heavily influenced my breeding policies at the time. I deliberately chose bulls based on colour since it was very well believed in the industry that very dark calves were superior for fattening. So yes I hold up my hands for pandering to old fashioned prejudice.
Daft prats!!!

 

[SilliamWhale]

Loads of products has an interesting political origin- sugar, spices, cod, salt, potatoes, corn, sheep etc.

There have been books written on all these. The pointlessness of looking at a modern day woke prism of them is the preserve of people who don't have a proper job

 

[melted welly]

Who pays for all this shite to be investigated?

All these academic studies provide nothing but division and fill a slot on Germy Whines moan in?

Guarantee that feckwit won’t be able to resist.

 

[merino]

I would point out that there is an imperial century of British history.

I don't think we should be too surprised when someone takes a look at it.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

I would point out that there is an imperial century of British history.

I don't think we should be too surprised when someone takes a look at it.

I don’t think anyone is trying to deny our colonial legacy, but when a body such as the Wellcome Trust mounts an exhibition that implicitly links (cows) milk to colonialism and other attitudes that many now find repugnant (such as a paternalistic attitude to health and diet), then you’ve got to wonder why.

(BTW, that would be the same Wellcome Trust that paid for the Eat Lancet report that recommended massive reductions in our red meat and dairy consumption).

 

[thesilentone]

Must be short of something to do, I'll save them a fortune, here's the summary:

Did you know?​

• In the last three decades, world milk production has increased by more than 77 percent, from 524 million tonnes in 1992 to 930 million tonnes in 2022.
• India is the world’s largest milk producer, with 22 percent of global production, followed by the United States of America, Pakistan, China and Brazil.
• Since the 1970s, most of the expansion in milk production has been in South Asia, which is the main driver of milk production growth in the developing world.

A few years ago, the International Dairy Federation website used to allow you to view the World Stats for dairy production/animal type, which was an eye opener. Cows, Buffalo, Goats, Sheep, Camels, etc all used for dairy production, all expanding. Now you have to pay for the reports

The idea that BEIS is going to provide funding to Oxford academics to carry out this research stinks of a stitch up.

Some interesting data here:

Milk production

An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.

ourworldindata.org

It is interesting to note, the global greenhouse gas emissions from none dairy milk (oat, almond, soy, rice) is higher than that of dairy milk production:

Meat and Dairy Production

Meat is an important source of nutrition for people around the world. How quickly is demand growing? And what are the implications for animal welfare and the earth’s environment?

ourworldindata.org

 

[nivilla1982]

There is a journalist/investigator type doing some research into what "research etc" is worthy of support from the taxpayer/university sector. Her findings are a tad concerning.

 

[merino]

I don’t think anyone is trying to deny our colonial legacy, but when a body such as the Wellcome Trust mounts an exhibition that implicitly links (cows) milk to colonialism and other attitudes that many now find repugnant (such as a paternalistic attitude to health and diet), then you’ve got to wonder why.

(BTW, that would be the same Wellcome Trust that paid for the Eat Lancet report that recommended massive reductions in our red meat and dairy consumption).

It's just a modern art exhibition
They're all like that.
There's a section in there linking milk to liberty and the revolution too.

At this point in time I'm just glad people are talking about agriculture at all in the art space, up till now the only halfway close to contemporary art being made about uk agriculture (that I was aware of at any rate) was the Abi Coombes calendar.
Which is a great deal better than nothing.

 

[Bald Rick]

Amanda Barrie was quite happy in her bath of milk in Carry On Cleo (other Carry On films are available) ....

and, in fact, milk baths are being sold as health treatments

so perhaps the Wellcome Foundation needs to give its collective head a rattle (although I see that they have a £36.8bn investment portfolio to bosch out to academics to come up with this sort of guff)

 

[yin ewe]

Snow is racist, ban igloos, no more snow men, blockade the Antarctic, end Winter!

How can anyone even consider voting for Reform, it will do none of the above...?

Well for a start should we really be calling them snow men in this enlightened age?