Diy Plant Milk: A Recipe-Manifesto and Method of Ethical Relations, Care, and Resistance

Arvidsson, Matilda

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“…The demand for ethical production and consumption informs the innovation of new products (Sexton et al, 2019), but also adds fuel to the ideological battleground that food has increasingly become (Warde & Yates, 2016). Within this context, many consumers are now eschewing cow's milk and its derivatives altogether (Linne & McCrow-Young, 2017;Westhoek et al, 2014) to select grain and plant 'milks' (Arvidsson, 2017) such as soy, oat, pea, almond and coconut. Clay et al (2020, p. 947) describe how the palatability of these 'mylks' is carefully choreographed by creating an 'aspirational sense of novelty and disruption'.…”

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(Re)connecting the food chain: Entangling cattle, farmers and consumers in the sale of raw milk

Hamilton

Carrigan

Bellet

2021

The Sociological Review

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This article investigates the growing market for cow’s milk sold directly from the farm, often known as ‘raw milk’. Drawing on qualitative research with UK raw milk producers we add new insights to the sociology of food by demonstrating how knowledge about the ‘goodness’ and ‘purity’ of cow’s milk arises and becomes powerful in producer and consumer groups. Our empirical findings highlight that for a small proportion of producers and consumers, raw milk helps to provide visual, gustatory and sensory points of contact. These contact points, we argue, address some of the contemporary concerns that have arisen over the source, content and ethics of milk by bringing together the means and ends of the food chain. Importantly within this process, cattle and farmyards help forge a powerful entanglement that sustains the commercial exchange. Our findings show that messages about ‘goodness’ and ‘purity’ in raw milk provide a timely counterpoint to the distancing and separation that characterises many modern food chains.

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