Milk!
Sources
E. Melanie Dupuis – Nature’s Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink
Ian Mosby – Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front
Ian Mosby, Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952
Unreserved – The Dark History of Canada’s Food Guide
Karen Nichols, Historic Resources Branch Manitoba – The Dairy Industry in Manitoba, 1880-2000
Government of Canada – History of Canada’s Food Guide
The Winnipeg Tribune Archives, via U of M Digital Archives
The Winnipeg Free Press, accessible online via the Winnipeg Public Library
Manitoba Archives
Dairy Farmers of Manitoba – Fun with your program
Once a year, in ye olde days of the late 90s, children across Manitoba would dress their teachers as cattle, wear their best milk moustaches to school, and go to bed dreaming of winning a giant, inflatable cow. In this episode, Alex interrogates the historical origins of this somewhat unusual childhood tradition known as Milk Spirit Week.
Listen to find out:
Were six spilled cans of milk coincidence or conspiracy?
How did pants settle a milk delivery strike?
And just why do North Americans drink so much milk, anyway?
All that and more in this ultra-niche milk episode!
Listen to the full episode :
A 1976 interview with Adele Davis, noted milk promoter.
