Posts about: 'Europe'
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1/20/2021 - 6/29/2026
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Carlo Petrini (1949–2026): Slow Food Founder Dies at 76
Founder of the Slow Food movement, the Ark of Taste, and Terra Madre, Carlo Petrini spent four decades defending artisanal food traditions, raw milk cheeses, and the right to good food worldwide.
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Why Europe Has Raw Milk Vending Machines and the US Doesn’t
Raw milk is accessible in most US states. No vending machine network has developed in any of them. The reasons are structural: no machine-specific framework, a bottling default, shopping habits incompatible with raw milk’s shelf life, and farm geography.
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How to Find a Raw Milk Vending Machine in Europe: A Practical Guide
Where to find raw milk vending machines across Europe by country, with local search terms and directory links. Covers Italy, France, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, and England.
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Lait Cru in France: Raw Milk at the Farm Gate, the Vending Machine, and the Supermarket
Raw milk in France is available at the farm gate, from automated vending machines, and on the shelves of organic grocery stores, including Biocoop nationwide.
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Raw Milk by the Liter: Switzerland and Austria’s Vending Machine Culture
Switzerland’s federal food authorities have confirmed raw milk vending machines are permitted under a consumer information framework. Austria operates a formal inspection regime under AGES with mandatory boiling notices. Two Alpine approaches compared.
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How Slovenia’s Dairy Farmers Cut Out the Middleman With Raw Milk Vending Machines
Squeezed by merchant pricing that paid farmers roughly 30 cents on the euro, Slovenian dairy farmers built a direct-sale raw milk vending network that now spans close to 70 locations nationwide.
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Italy’s Raw Milk Vending Machines: The Distributori di Latte Crudo
Authorized by national agreement in January 2007 and codified into permanent law in 2013, Italy’s network of raw milk vending machines spans more than 1,000 locations from the Po Valley to Sicily.
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How a Raw Milk Vending Machine Works
Refrigerated tank, motorized agitator, dosing pump, steam-jet nozzle sterilization, and cellular monitoring: the mechanics of the machines that dispense raw milk across Europe, from DF Italia and Brunimat specifications.
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Raw Milk Vending Machines in Europe: How Automated Farm Access Works
Automated dispensers supplying unpasteurized milk from single named farms operate across Italy, France, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and beyond. An overview of the machines, the regulatory frameworks governing them, and where to find them across Europe.
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Where the 60-Day Raw Cheese Aging Rule Came From and What It Was Designed For
Raw milk cheese sold across state lines in the U.S. must be aged 60 days by federal law. Here is where that requirement came from and what it was designed to prevent.
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Who Named Pasteurization? The Coinage and Spread of a Scientific Eponym
Pasteur never used the word “pasteurization.” Others coined it as an honorific, first in French, then in English in 1881, applied to wine. The path to milk took another decade.
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Louis Pasteur: Chemist and Pasteurizer of Beer and Wine
Every conventional milk carton bears his name, but Pasteur never pasteurized milk. His study of fermentation developed a heat-treatment for wine in 1865 and beer in 1871.
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Franz von Soxhlet: Agricultural Chemist and Inventor of Milk Pasteurization
Before pasteurization reached milk, it was applied to wine and beer. The chemist who first proposed heat-treating milk was Franz von Soxhlet, in Munich in 1886.
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Abraham Jacobi, Father of American Pediatrics, and the Milk Question
Imprisoned in Prussia for his role in the 1848 revolution, Abraham Jacobi arrived in New York in 1853 and spent the next six decades building the institutional foundations of American pediatrics and shaping the debate over how urban children should be fed.
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Nathan Straus and the Pasteurized Milk Depots, 1893–1920
Bavarian-born merchant and Macy’s co-owner Nathan Straus built a privately funded network of 297 pasteurized milk depots across 36 American cities between 1893 and 1920, accumulating the mortality data that drove mandatory pasteurization legislation across the United States.
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A Colorado Memo Got the History of Pasteurization Wrong, and the Real Story Is More Interesting
A 2026 Colorado legislative memo claims Pasteur invented pasteurization for milk in 1863. The real history: Pasteur targeted wine and beer, and milk pasteurization came from Franz von Soxhlet in 1886.
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Built to Drink Milk: The Evolutionary History of Lactase Persistence
Humans became lactase persistent through thousands of years of dairy intolerance. Drinking milk through the pain eventually rewrote human genetics.
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Why Many Dairy-Intolerant People Report Tolerating Raw Milk
Dairy intolerance doesn’t always extend to raw milk. Many report tolerating it without symptoms, yet the mechanisms behind why have yet to be formally studied.
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A1 and A2 β-Casein: The Amino Acid Difference Behind BCM-7
One amino acid separates A1 and A2 β-casein. That difference determines whether digestion produces BCM-7, an opioid peptide linked to gastrointestinal effects. Here is what the research shows.
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Does Raw Milk Contain Lactase?
Mammary glands produce no lactase. Here’s where the myth comes from, what actually does appear in bottled raw milk (and why), and what the science says about the widespread reports of people who say raw milk solved their dairy intolerance.
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Does Raw Milk Reduce Allergies?
Multiple large European studies have linked raw milk consumption in childhood to lower rates of asthma and allergies. This article reviews what the research found.
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Mother Noella Marcellino: Microbiologist, Nun, and Raw Milk Cheese Pioneer
The Benedictine nun, PhD microbiologist, and raw milk cheesemaker whose landmark barrel experiment protected artisan cheese.
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Formula Industry Recalls Highlight Dangers of Ultra-Processed Infant Nutrition
As manufacturers add synthetic compounds to mimic breast milk, they’re creating fragmented supply chains with new contamination risks.
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Alberta district votes two-thirds in favor of raw milk
The Municipal District of Greenview files a motion to lobby the Canadian federal government to legalize on-farm raw milk sales.
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Canada imposes ban on raw milk cheese imports from Europe
The impact of raw cheese import bans in Canada leaves shelves dry and sparks conversations about domestic production.
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Timeline of bread, butter, and cheese
10,000 years ago bread got a massive upgrade.
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Ancient aurochs size comparison
Aurochs, predecessor of the cow, were significantly larger than modern bulls.
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Will you eat the carbon butter?
New lab food that seeks to replace butter and palm oil, without GMOs.
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She simply tolerated the lactose
Woman tragically develops lactose intolerance, then regains her ability to consume dairy by slamming skim milk.
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Netherlands begins monthly testing of raw milk
Raw milk testing will increase from quarterly to monthly in the Netherlands.
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Victor Rothschild lobbies for milk pasteurization in England
Lord Victor Rothschild tries and fails to lobby for milk pasteurization mandates in the United Kingdom.
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Pasteur never pasteurized raw milk
Louis Pasteur developed the principles behind milk pasteurization, not the methods of industrial gatekeeping or germophobia.
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Cows bullied by birds face nutritional challenges and aggression issues
Invasive bird species are bullying cows for their feed, here’s what farmers and researchers are doing about it.
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Cold-pressed milk is not raw milk
Australian food authorities allow “cold-pressed raw milk” to sell in grocery stores, but some have noticed the mislabeling and are pointing out it’s anything but raw.
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Raw milk research from the Netherlands
Dutch scientists are ahead of the United States in terms of raw milk science. Here are some resources sent in by a friend in the Netherlands.
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Agromol dairy bombed in Ukraine
Agromol produced raw milk, kefir, and many other dairy products for the Ukrainian people. Their farm was targeted and destroyed.
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Where to find breast milk locally and online
Sometimes moms need help providing milk for their babies. Here are some resources to help you find or donate breast milk locally and online.
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Photo dump: ancient Aurochs and breeding attempts to revive the wild cow
Like many domesticated animals, the cows of today descend from a wild breed. Let’s take a look at the ancient aurochs, the original wild cow.
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List of enzymes found in unpasteurized raw milk
Let’s get to know some of the enzymes that are found in unpasteurized raw milk. These are the nutritional enzymes that lose most if not all of their nutritional value during pasteurization.
1/20/2021 - 6/29/2026
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