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First Aired - 04/25/2010 02:30PM
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Anne Saxelby, Hilary Dennis & Leah Mayor talk about milksheds: what is a milkshed, and how does it affect the quality of what we eat day to day?
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Cutting the Curd Introduction: Milkshed (20:38)
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Cutting The Curd, Anne Saxelby, Heritage Radio Network, http://saxelbypam.blogspot.com, How Not To Raise F'd Up Adults, Pam Saxelby, milk shed, New York City Milk Supply, Hilary Dennis, NYU, College of Arts & Science, thesis writing, King Corn, the dairy world is like going down the rabbit hole, much of our food supply is like that, milkshed is analogous to the term watershed, New York State landscape is ideal for dairy farming, many farmers are going out of business, New York City used to have a very strong local foodshed, swill milk, transportation routes, milk trains, alleged monopolies in the dairy industry, lobbying power, small farmers can't defend themselves, farms became more reliant on the system, the system has started to take advantage, farms are more specialized, that means that corporations have farms in a stranglehold, they only produce milk, pasteurization, homogenization, dairy trucks, processing plants, independent truckers,Hilary Dennis & Leah Mayor Discuss Monopolies in the Dairy Industry (17:37)
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