Enlarge image European dairy farmers spray police officers with milk during a demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday.
European dairy farmers spray police officers with milk during a demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday.
Food fight!
Earlier this week, European Union dairy farmers decided to protest milk price controls by spraying police with high-pressure hoses filled with milk. It certainly wasn't the first time that food has been both subject and symbol of unrest (see food riots). But this one stands out because of the dramatic images.
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"The European Milk Board, which coordinated the two-day protest, said prices with current quotas were putting small farmers out of business. In Belgium, for example, the board said the wholesale price for a quarter gallon of milk was around 34 cents, but the cost of producing it is more than 50 cents."
Enlarge image European milk farmers drive their tractors down a main thoroughfare in the European Quarter of Brussels on Monday.
European milk farmers drive their tractors down a main thoroughfare in the European Quarter of Brussels on Monday.
For more amazing photos of the EU milk protest, check out NBC News' PhotoBlog post.
While food has often been hurled in protest think rotten tomatoes, rotten eggs, etc. milk may be a particularly poignant choice because of our complex relationship with it.
As historian Deborah Valenze notes in her book Milk: A Local And Global History, "Milk, a liquid associated with kindness and love, has never been free from conflict throughout history."
We've wavered between milk reverence and milk revulsion for much of our history, she says. It's a first food, it's nutrient-dense, and yet, when not stored in the right conditions, it can make us sick.
Dairy was once banned from ancient Greek diets it was considered too bestial in origin for sophisticated wannabe urbanites, Valenze writes. Later, in a backlash against urbanism, Renaissance scholar Laura Cereta "seized upon milk en route to one of her favorite causes: the virtue of rural simplicity over the worldly arrogance built into life in the city," writes Valenze.
These days, we Westerners still equate milk and milk products with wholesomeness and nature, even as some of us wrestle with lactose intolerance. At that same time, its production has become supremely industrialized in the last 100 years, and various governments have intervened in its sale for both safety and supply reasons, causing protests of all kinds.
For a brief history of other food fights, check out our post from earlier this year about flying tacos and yogurt.
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