The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector

Atkins, Peter

doi:10.26882/histagrar.073e01a

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“…This position contrasts markedly to the situation before the widespread adoption of pasteurization and statutory cattle testing programmes in the UK. For example, it has been estimated that over 800,000 people died from M. bovis infection in Great Britain between 1848 and 1960, and the zoonotic risk from M. bovis was the main driver for setting up statutory eradication programmes in Britain 19,20 . However, it could be argued that economic drivers for bTB control in cattle to protect export markets have always been more important in NI than the perception of zoonotic risk to humans 10 , as was suggested by several of the participants in this study who reasoned against attempting to eradicate bTB because it was a zoonosis.…”

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Farmer and veterinarian attitudes towards the risk of zoonotic Mycobacterium bovis infection in Northern Ireland

Robinson

2019

Veterinary Record

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Based on a qualitative social science research methodology using semi-structured interviews, this paper examines the attitudes of farmers and veterinarians in Northern Ireland around the risk of acquiring tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis from infected cattle and drinking raw milk. This region has traditionally had one of the highest rates of bovine tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and among the highest in Europe. The research finds that the risk is often downplayed and considered so rare that it is no longer a significant public health risk due to the pasteurisation of milk and intensive surveillance on farms through systematic testing and removal of positive animals, as evidenced by the low recorded human incidence. Although the incidence of tuberculosis in humans caused by M bovis is only around 1% of all annual human tuberculosis cases, this paper argues that M bovis may be underestimated as a human pathogen and makes the case for a renewed perspective. Discourses surrounding the disease may need to be re-orientated to remind relevant stakeholders that human infection with M bovis is a hazard that needs to be treated with more caution on the front line of control.

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Farmer and veterinarian attitudes towards the risk of zoonotic Mycobacterium bovis infection in Northern Ireland

Robinson

2019

Veterinary Record

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“…STANZIANI (2007); SCHOLLIERS and VAN DEN EECKHOUT (2011);ATKINS (2017). See also the work of Bruegel, Hierholzer and Guy, on food safety, the regulation of markets and public hygiene policies in BRUEGEL (2012).…”

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Cities and milk consumption in Europe, 1890-1936: the emergence of a new market in Spain

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Pujol²

2017

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“…Stanziani, Histoire de la qualité alimentaire ; Atkins, Liquid materialities ; idem, ‘Long genealogy of quality’.…”

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Why did the industrial diet triumph? The massification of dairy consumption in Spain, 1965–90

Collantes

2018

The Economic History Review

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The rise of a mass, agri‐industrial diet after the Second World War was crucial for the culmination of the nutritional transition that western countries had been involved in since the second half of the nineteenth century—but why did the industrial diet triumph? This article takes the massification of dairy consumption in Spain 1965–90 as a study case. Using a newly constructed database and qualitative material within an evolutionary socio‐economic framework, the article reaches two conclusions. First, the massification of dairy consumption was linked to most households’ transition to a softer budget constraint, which was driven mainly by increasing household incomes (and only secondarily by consumer price reductions caused by food industrialization). Second, the reason why the softening of the budget constraint played such a major role was that it was joined by a substantial increase in consumer trust in dairy products, which in turn resulted from industrial standardization. The article is in line with recent work that underlines the dietary change brought about by food industrialization, but questions whether the latter's major contribution was of a quantitative, price‐related nature and suggests that more attention should be paid to the qualitative, preferences‐related dimension.

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The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector

Cited by 5 publications

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Farmer and veterinarian attitudes towards the risk of zoonotic Mycobacterium bovis infection in Northern Ireland

Farmer and veterinarian attitudes towards the risk of zoonotic Mycobacterium bovis infection in Northern Ireland

Cities and milk consumption in Europe, 1890-1936: the emergence of a new market in Spain

Why did the industrial diet triumph? The massification of dairy consumption in Spain, 1965–90

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