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Economy

Why Cuba Is Still Plagued By Milk Shortages

Milk shortages are not new in Cuba, where the state pays producers less for their milk than what they can make by selling it on the black market.

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In The News

The First Victims Of Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis: Pregnant Women

The country’s worst economic crisis in decades has toppled the government and led to soaring prices. Pregnant women struggle to access essential supplies.

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Geopolitics

The Loaded Politics Of Human Milk Banking

The proliferation of human milk banks has raised technical, religious and political concerns. Local policymakers would benefit from an international framework to help them set regulations.

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Economy Eyes on the U.S. Future

Got AI? Connected Cows, Artificial Intelligence, Your Milk

‘Cow Fitbits’ and artificial intelligence are coming to the dairy farm, but some farmers aren’t impressed.

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blog

Why Does Swiss Cheese Have Holes? Swiss Researchers Solve Mystery

The holes in Swiss cheese have stumped scientists for nearly a century. Now a team in Switzerland says they’ve found the holy grail.

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Impact: Organic Revolution

Happy Cow? The Murky Science Of Measuring Bovine Happiness

HAMBURG — It’s good to have a clear conscience about breakfast, so when the yogurt container or milk bottle pictures happy animals, it’s reassuring. Consumers frequently imagine happy cows in lush pastures and roomy stalls where everything is good. But that’s only part of the truth. To meet organic and animal rights standards, farmers are […]

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Food / Travel

The Miracle After Italy’s “Parmesan Earthquake”

This is the good kind of cheesy…

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Food / Travel

Doesn’t The EU Have Anything *Butter* To Do?

The Luxemburg-based European Court of Justice ruled this week a product the Czechs call butter is not butter, which means that the beloved spread known as “pomazankove maslo” (“spreadable butter”) can no longer be labeled as such. Non-Czechs would never have called it butter, which it bears no resemblance to – it doesn’t even really […]

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