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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy

The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.

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  • John Butter, 1790-1876
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Butter
  • William Henry Butter Stoddart. Photograph, 1895.
  • John Butter. Mezzotint by H. Cousins after J. Lucas.
  • John Butter. Mezzotint by H. Cousins after J. Lucas.
  • Butter, bacon, cheese : June 1st, 1896 / Reynolds, Sons & Co.
  • Anchor Butter & Olive Oil Blend : all the taste of free range butter, all the goodness of olive oil / [New Zealand Milk (UK) Ltd.].
  • Anchor Butter & Olive Oil Blend : all the taste of free range butter, all the goodness of olive oil / [New Zealand Milk (UK) Ltd.].
  • Anchor Butter & Olive Oil Blend : all the taste of free range butter, all the goodness of olive oil / [New Zealand Milk (UK) Ltd.].
  • Anchor Butter & Olive Oil Blend : all the taste of free range butter, all the goodness of olive oil / [New Zealand Milk (UK) Ltd.].
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