Where does milk come from?
The Expatriate’s Kitchen has a fantastic post about old school Sesame Street. Here’s an excerpt:
…the first episode showed a real life clip on where milk comes from. Folk music in the background sings, “Oh, Cow …” softly as the sun rises on content cows with calves eating grass in the pasture. The farmer leads them gently into the barn for milking, patting them. I nearly cried.
This is stark contrast to the big dairy-sponsored film at the petting zoo that announces cows eat Corn! and shows how great technology is that puts the cows on a big rotating platform to be milked by the hundred at once, looking like cogs on a factory wheel.
What’s happened to us in the last nearly 40 years? Not just the loss of reverence for our food animals, but the lack of a stand for real change in the world. The mass commercialization of a show that was once so altruistic and bold?
This makes me feel nostalgic for the Sesame Street I remember as a kid. It also makes me feel good about buying locally grown and/or organic dairy products, meats and eggs. And it goes well with my post at Nursing Your Kids which features a sweet video clip from Sesame Street. Check out the video if you have a minute.
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