Milk Wars

First they came for the milk-drinkers. In the last five years, you might have noticed a puzzling succession of headlines aimed at milk. Maybe it was the Buzzfeed article titled “Hate to Break It To You: Drinking Milk Is Not Okay,” or the Vice story that said drinking milk “is unsettling behavior,” or a film critic’s op-ed which stated “only psychopaths drink milk.” Maybe you recently noticed yourself feeling awkward when you had to clarify to your local barista that you’d like “regular” or “cow’s milk,” not oat, almond, or soy. If you’d really been making the connections, you would have also noticed that dairy farmers are committing suicide in record numbers.