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 Aussie Bridge 
 Has a Cow, Man 

Sydney Harbour span picnic features livestock, hectare of real turf

Oct 22, 09 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Australians will get up close and personal with their breakfast on Sunday when 15 cows and a football field’s worth of turf take over the Sydney Harbour Bridge for a picnic. The cows and grass are part of “Breakfast on the Bridge,” an event that showcases regional... More »

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milk • cows • bridge • Sydney • grass

Nestle Scraps Milk Deal With Mugabe Farms

Critics threatened company boycott over 'blood milk'

Oct 2, 09 8:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nestle will stop buying milk from Zimbabwean farms seized by the wife of Robert Mugabe after human rights advocates called for an international boycott of the Swiss conglomerate's products. The leader of a South African right group tells the Telegraph he's happy Nestle was giving up "blood milk."... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • milk • Nestle • Grace Mugabe

Nestle Buys Milk From Farms Mugabe Seized

Zimbabwean leader's wife sells 265K gallons a year to food giant

Sep 28, 09 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nestle is buying up to 265,000 gallons of milk a year from a Zimbabwean farm seized from white landowners and now owned by the wife of Robert Mugabe. Grace Mugabe has taken over at least six of the country's most valuable farms, reports the Telegraph. As a Swiss... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • milk • Nestle • food industry • Grace Mugabe

Euro Farmers Protest Falling Prices With Huge Milk Dump

800,000 gallons in Belgian field after recession takes big toll

Sep 16, 09 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - European farmers today dumped 800,000 gallons of milk in a Belgian field, AFP reports, in a protest against a dramatic dive in prices. The group behind the scene says three French farmers committed suicide in the past week over prices, which have fallen by as much as half as... More »

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Belgium • milk • Europe • waste • recession • European Commission • farmers • commodity prices • financial crisis • milk prices

(Newser) - A new study suggests that children who eat more dairy products live longer lives, the BBC reports. Researchers followed up a 1930s study of childhood diets and found that those who had diets rich in milk, butter, and cheese had lower mortality rates from strokes and other causes. The children... More »

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milk • children • dairy • stroke • dairy products • longevity • calcium

(Newser) - Millie Hinkle loves camel milk, and thinks the rest of America should, too. “It’s taken over my life,” she says. That’s why she’s drained her savings, cut down her day-job hours and devoted herself to opening the US’ first camel dairy, the Wall Street Journal... More »

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milk • dairy • camels • camel • Millie Hinkle • camel milk • Camel Milk USA

(Newser) - "Got Milk?" isn't the question organic dairy farmers want to hear these days. Consumers couldn’t get enough of organic milk three years ago, but the souring economy and glut of new-to-the-market organic farmers have spoiled sales, which are expected to drop nearly 15% this year. “We’... More »

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organic food • milk • Vermont • dairy • farmers • organic farming

(Newser) - A British milk ad showing an angry black-spotted bull "purifying" himself white is racist, consumers are bellowing—charges a UK advertising council has labeled bull. "Viewers were likely to understand that the black-and-white bulls were intended as a metaphor for milk and were unlikely to interpret the purification... More »

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milk • cows • racism • bulls • black • advertisements • racist • television advertising • tainted milk

(Newser) - A 5-year, $53 million project has resulted in the sequencing of the cow genome, the Houston Chronicle reports. The results will likely take the guesswork out of breeding, but also mark the end of big-money sequencing projects. “It was pretty dumb to do the cow for $50 million when... More »

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milk • beef • cows • genes • genome • Baylor University • scientific research • sequencing

 Got Milk? 
 It May Fight 
 Alzheimer's 

Drink is great source of key vitamin B12

Mar 1, 09 5:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Two glasses of milk a day could help prevent brain-deteriorating diseases like Alzheimer’s, scientists at Oxford have found. Milk, they observed, is an excellent source of vitamin B12, which experts believe helps protect nerve cells; elderly people with low B12 levels experience twice the brain shrinkage of those with... More »

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medical breakthrough • dementia • milk • vitamins • Oxford University • health research • Alzheimer's Disease

 As Milk Prices Sour, 
 Cows Head 
 to Slaughter 

Farmers can't afford to keep them

Feb 16, 09 9:17 AM CST
(AP) - Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. Dairy farmers say they face a perfect storm of destructive economic forces: At home, feed prices are rising and consumers... More »

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milk • beef • cows • consumer prices • farmers • recession depression

(Newser) - Robert Holding believed he was providing a “public service” when he put a little something extra in his milk deliveries. Police nabbed the 72-year-old for selling pot to 17 pensioners in the UK for at least 6 months, the Daily Telegraph reports. Holding’s elderly customers—the oldest... More »

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drugs • milk • medical marijuana • marijuana • Bill Maher Grid

3 Sentenced to Death in China Milk Scandal

Chairwoman of tainted milk firm gets life

Jan 22, 09 3:49 AM CST
(Newser) - A Chinese court has sentenced three men to die for adulterating milk for profit and poisoning thousands, CNN reports. The former chairwoman of the milk company at the heart of the scandal that killed six infants and sickened 300,000 has been sentenced to life in prison. Other defendants, including... More »

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China • death penalty • milk • melamine • Sanlu Group • tainted milk

 Chinese Exec 
 Pleads Guilty in 
 Melamine Case 

Sanlu leaders could face death penalty for tainted milk scandal

Dec 31, 08 1:23 PM CST
(Newser) - The former chair and general manager of China’s Sanlu group pleaded guilty to selling the tainted powdered milk that killed six children and caused a national food scare, the New York Times reports. Tian Wenhua said she knew that the firm’s milk contained dangerously high levels of the... More »

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China • milk • melamine • trial • food scare • infant • Sanlu Group

 China Milk Scandal 
 Trials Begin 

Toxic formula left 6 babies dead, 300,000 others ill

Dec 26, 08 1:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Trials began today in China for six people accused of intentionally tainting and selling the milk powder that killed six babies and sickened 300,000, the Guardian reports. The men added the toxic chemical melamine to diluted milk to help it pass quality tests in one of China’s worst... More »

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China • milk • melamine • trial • contaminants

ANALYSIS

 Whole Foods' Labels 
 Tell Half the Story 

Food chain's labels don't provide enough information about allergens

Nov 23, 08 10:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Eat, drink, and be wary, chocolate lovers: Whole Foods may not be telling you the whole story about its premium chocolate bars, reports the Chicago Tribune. In an investigation into product labels that promised “good manufacturing practices.” the Trib found that the supermarket chain’s chocolate bars... More »

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FDA • organic food • milk • Whole Foods • gluten • chocolate • label • food allergies • tree nuts • Soy • peanut • consumers

 US Blocks 
 Chinese Milk 
 Products 

FDA demands independent tests before products can enter

Nov 14, 08 1:43 AM CST
(Newser) - All Chinese products containing milk will be blocked at the US border until tests prove they're free of a widely used toxic contaminant, Bloomberg reports. The FDA is demanding independent testing to prove such products are not tainted with melamine like those which sickened 50,000 children in China. The... More »

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China • milk • melamine • Department of Health • dairy products • Food and Drug Administration • testing • milk formula

 China Orders Total Milk Recall 

All products over a month old pulled from shelves

Oct 14, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to reassure its milk-drinking public, China has issued a complete recall on any milk, powdered or liquid, made more than a month ago, the BBC reports. The products will return to shelves only after passing a quality test and receiving an approval sticker, according to the state... More »

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China • milk • melamine • recall • tainted milk

 Chinese Recall Milk as Tainting Scandal Spreads

Melamine found in 10% of milk from top dairies; massive recalls begin

Sep 19, 08 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Milk from some of China's biggest dairies has been found to contain poisonous melamine, prompting authorities to clear shelves of dairy products, in addition to the earlier recall of tainted infant formula, the BBC reports. A watchdog group found the banned chemical in 10% of samples from three dairies, including... More »

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China • milk • melamine • dairy products • scandal • tainted milk

 Toxic Milk Poisons 6,000 Babies 

Outrage over escalating scandal as 3 die

Sep 17, 08 3:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The toll from contaminated infant formula in China continues to mount alarmingly, with more than 6,000 babies poisoned and at least three killed, reports the BBC. Another 158 are suffering from acute kidney failure. The chemical melamine—which caused widespread pet deaths in contaminated food last year—has now... More »

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China • milk • food contamination • poison • baby formula • Sanlu Group • Fonterra

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