Reforming a perilous product : milk in the Progressive Era -- Balancing the goods of nature : butter in the interwar period -- Purer streams and predictable profits : dairy waste at mid-century -- From the ice cream aisle to the bulk tank : the postwar landscape of mass production -- Reassessing the risks of nature : milk after 1950 -- Epilogue
Summary
Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy organic foods each year, spending billions of dollars ""Dairy farm families, health officials, and food manufacturers have simultaneously stoked human desires for an all-natural product and intervened to ensure milk's safety and profitability, "" writes Kendra Smith-Howard. In Pure and Modern Milk, she tells the history of a nearly universal consumer product, and sheds light on America's food industry. Today, she notes, milk reaches supermarkets in an
