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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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Mixed feelings and milk siblings

A friend in need has a profound effect on Alev’s feelings about women sharing their milk in this final instalment of ‘The Breastmilk Market’.

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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta

A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.

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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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  • Human milk. Photomicrograph by Léon Foucault, 1844.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • The milk of human kindness..? : the routine suffering of dairy cows and their calves is one of the biggest and dirtiest secrets of the modern farming industry / Animal Aid.
  • Humanized milk for infant feeding, advertise
  • Two women from Zanzibar, one milking the other's right breast into a cup.
  • 3 good reasons for an extra pinta : and lots of new recipes too!.
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