Dairy Cannot Be Made the Villain of India’s Food Safety Story

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By Kuldeep Sharma | Dairynews7x7 I have no sympathy for anyone who deliberately adulterates food, cheats consumers or compromises public health. Food safety must never be compromised. But I am increasingly concerned about the way milk and dairy are being portrayed in India’s food-safety narrative. Somewhere between the laboratory report, the enforcement action and the…

Dairy Farming in Africa Dates Back At Least 6,000 Years

Our history with milk presents a chicken-or-egg conundrum: Humans couldn’t digest the beverage before they evolved mutations that helped them do so, yet they had to already be consuming milk to change their DNA. “There’s always been the question of which came first,” says University of Pennsylvania geneticist Sarah Tishkoff. “The cultural practice or the…

Dairy Farming in Africa Dates Back At Least 6,000 Years

Our history with milk presents a chicken-or-egg conundrum: Humans couldn’t digest the beverage before they evolved mutations that helped them do so, yet they had to already be consuming milk to change their DNA. “There’s always been the question of which came first,” says University of Pennsylvania geneticist Sarah Tishkoff. “The cultural practice or the…