Raw Milk in Pärnu, Pärnu

Ireland’s Agriculture Minister admitted he drinks raw milk himself while detailing the EU hygiene package’s 20km, 30-litre weekly derogation for farm sales.

Erling Haaland, Colt McCoy, and Marlon “Chito” Vera each drink raw milk, and two of the three have named exactly where they get it.

From Bronze Age gold cups to a scholar’s field notes on a dying herd, three thousand years of writers described the aurochs before it went extinct in 1627.

From Mycenaean gold cups to a Macedonian king’s temple offering, the aurochs was a mark of status across Greece and Rome long before Caesar wrote about it.

Herberstein and Schneeberger left the last eyewitness accounts of the aurochs before its 1627 extinction, from a royal gift calf to a dying herd’s final count.

Caesar’s account of the aurochs in De Bello Gallico is among the earliest surviving descriptions of cattle’s wild ancestor. The full Latin passage, examined.