UK supermarket chain Morrisons recently announced it will use ‘best before’ instead of ‘use by’ dates on its milks. This change makes sense for the environment, and from a food safety perspective too.
Dairy cows in the Fraser Valley, B.C.
(Evan Bowness)
Technological changes on the horizon will likely disrupt the dairy industry as we know it — plans to mitigate the risks this transition poses to farmer livelihoods and animal welfare should start now.
The environmental footprint of milk containers varies substantially.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
In Canada, milk is available in jugs, cartons, bags and glass bottles. A new analysis reveals which type of container has the smallest environmental footprint — from container production to disposal.
A herd of cows returning from a drinking hole in Amboseli, Kenya.
Buena Vista Images/GettyImages
From orange juice, to tea and coffee, to alcohol — different drinks can have different effects on iron absorption. This is worth thinking about if your iron levels are low.
Some studies have linked drinking milk with higher risk of oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer.
Summersky/ Shutterstock
There are so many milk alternatives these days, but it can be difficult to tell how beneficial they might be for our health. So we asked a dietitian to run through the main options.
This insect’s unique reproductive biology could lead to new ways to control the species in the environment – and prevent the deadly sleeping sickness it spreads to people.
Richard Byma from By-Acre farms in Sussex County, New Jersey, tends to his Holstein herd.
Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)
Small-scale dairy farmers are struggling across the US – but in New Jersey they’ve developed a model that keeps their products and their customers local.
A Pennsylvania dairy farmer watches 5,500 gallons of milk swirl down the drain.
MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
Paxton Loke, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
If your child has accidentally eaten something you thought they were allergic to, but doesn’t have a response, they may have grown out of their food allergy. Here’s the safest way to check.
A dairy cow grazes on the lawns in front of Parliament House in Canberra in 2015, as part of an industry event.
Dean Lewins/AAP
Pressure is mounting on Australia’s dairy farmers, from farm gate prices to animal welfare concerns, and technology that could produce milk without cows.