Embalming Fluid Milk

The recommended daily intake for Americans is three glasses of milk. As they say, it's healthy for the body. And despite the fact that the notion of drinking milk is waning these days as a result of all the almonds and soy beans we milk, it is still a well-liked and generally healthful beverage. However, it wasn't always that.

The dairy sector had faced criticism towards the end of the 1800s for essentially being a liquid version of a contemporary horror film. The production of milk has no obvious norms at all. There were often one of two problems with milk. It either included an abundance of chemicals that belonged elsewhere, or there were so many germs present that scientists were unable to count them all.

Milk would be diluted with water by dairy producers before being thickened with gelatin. That was the excellent stuff, though. To set the color, it could contain chalk, plaster, or dye. Adding puréed calf brains to the cream would give it a deep color. Additionally, they would add formaldehyde to milk if it was going to spoil.

Along with this, milk samples had sticks, blood, hair, and pus in them. The health authorities of Indiana came to the conclusion that each year, residents drank milk that included around 2,000 pounds of cow excrement. The dairy sector wasn't cleaned up until the early 1900s, when far too many children died as a result.