| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

E. Melanie DuPuis. Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink. New York: New York University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 310. Cloth $50.00, paper $17.95.

For almost two hundred years, Americans were told that fresh milk was "the perfect food," providing humans with nutrients that are essential in every diet. Now, the tables have turned. Milk stands accused of being indigestible by much of the world's population and a prime source of dreaded cholesterol for those who can stomach it. The cows that produce it are said to be crowded together and fed dangerous antibiotics and growth hormones. Their prodigious farting is said to release enormous amounts of methane gas that depletes the earth's ozone layer. So much for the days of benign Elsie and "contented cows" grazing in the meadows.

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