Why We’ve Been Fighting About Milk for 10,000 Years

A quart of milk may sit in virtually every refrigerator, but milk has never been just another food. Its merits and dangers have been argued over for at least the past ten thousand years, making it the center of humanity’s longest-standing health-related, moral, and economic food debates. In the United States, milk was the among the first foods ever to be tested in a scientific laboratory, and today, it is the most regulated food in most countries around the world.