WE TAKE OUR DAILY DOSE OF MILK FOR GRANTED, don’t we?
Milk is white juice in plastic bottles from the supermarket; pasteurised, homogenised, discombobulised, calcium enriched, lo-fatted, nuked, devitaminised, revitaminised; ideally suited to turning black coffee white or reducing crispy wheaten things to a soggy grey goo.
At the back of our minds the thought may lurk that there are animals in the loop somewhere—large gentle ruminant beasts with eyelashes to die for, that repose in languid pastures and blissfully convert mouthfuls of lush vegetation to golden cream.
But such thoughts are distant. Reality is the here and now: fill the trolley and move on. Few of us are aware of the other, hidden, side of milk … the HUMAN face of milking.
Needing an extra buck, I found myself alongside a Southland dairy farmer standing to the very immediate south of five hundred north-facing cows on a rotary. New title: Trainee Relief Milker …
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August 26, 2007
Categories: Humour, Life . Tags: argriculture, butter, cattle, cheese, cow, dairy, farm, milk . Author: Argus . Comments: 1 Comment