Milk: Symbol Of Purity, Symbol Of Conflict
Dairy farmers protest, Brussels, 5th of Oct. 2009 by Teemu Mäntynen
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Previously this week, European Union dairy farmers chose to protest milk price controls by spraying authorities with high-pressure hose pipes fulled of milk. It definitely wasn't the first time that food has been both subject and symbol of discontent (see food riots). However this one sticks out because of the dramatic images. According to Reuters, hundred of farmers shut out traffic with tractors along a few of Brussels' busiest streets and intended hose pipes at the Parliament building. Normally, authorities and passersby got showers they were not expecting. Later, the farmers set fire to barrels of hay and piles of tires. States Reuters:. "The European Milk Board, which coordinated the two-day protest, said prices with current quotas were putting small farmers out of business.
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| 0.135257 | Deborah Valenze notes in her book Milk: A Local And Global History, "Milk, a liquid associated with kindness and love, has never been free from conflict throughout history." |
| 0.241645 | "seized upon milk en route to one of her favorite causes: the virtue of rural simplicity over the worldly arrogance built into life in the city," writes Valenze. |
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Our complicated relationship with milk may make images of this week's EU dairy farmers' protest more powerful then say, if they sprayed police with water. For much of human history, says historian Deborah Valenze, we've wavered between reverence and revulsion for the stuff.
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