National-Milk-Day (MOC#6-11)
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- JOURNALING: “National Milk Day” commemorates the day many think the first milk deliveries in glass bottles began in the United States. Alexander Campbell of the New York Dairy Company professed that his company was the first to make these deliveries in 1878.
Although pasteurization was invented by Louis Pasteur in 1863, it wasn’t until 1892 that the first milk pasteurization equipment was installed in the United States.
Sheffield Farms is credited with installing the first pasteurization equipment at their Bloomville, New York plant.
Plastic coated paper milk cartons were introduced commercially in 1932.
The United States and Australia are the world’s largest exporters of milk and milk products.
Throughout the world, there are more than 6 billion consumers of milk and milk products.
In the Middle Ages, milk was called the “virtuous white liquor” because alcoholic beverages were more reliable than water.
Milk is processed into a variety of dairy products such as cream, butter, yogurt, kefir, ice cream and cheese.
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