INDEX: Milk Merchandising Retail

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This Milk Merchandising Retail index page aggregates links
to all post and photos of retail merchandising, display, and outfitting
as well as deep Background courtesy of Wikipedia.

BACKSTORY: Milk is a white liquid nutrient-rich food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for infantmammals (including humans who are breastfed) before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother’s antibodies to its young and can reduce the risk of many diseases. It contains many other nutrients^[1] including protein and lactose. Interspecies consumption of milk is not uncommon, particularly among humans, many of whom consume the milk of other mammals.^[2]^[3]

As an agricultural product, milk is extracted from farm animals during or soon after pregnancy. Dairy farms produced about 730 million tonnes of milk in 2011,^[4] from 260 million dairy cows.^[5] India is the world’s largest producer of milk, and is the leading exporter of skimmed milk powder, yet it exports few other milk products.^[6]^[7] The ever increasing rise in domestic demand for dairy products and a large demand-supply gap could lead to India being a net importer of dairy products in the future.^[8] The United States, India, China and Brazil are the world’s largest exporters of milk and milk products.^[9] China and Russia were the world’s largest importers of milk and milk products until 2016 when both countries became self-sufficient, contributing to a worldwide glut of milk.^[10]

Throughout the world, more than six billion people consume milk and milk products. Over 750 million people live in dairy farming households.^[11]

The term “milk” comes from “Old English meoluc (West Saxon), milc (Anglian), from Proto-Germanic *meluks “milk” (source also of Old Norse mjolk, Old Frisian melok, Old Saxon miluk, Dutch melk, Old High German miluh, German Milch, Gothic miluks)”.^[12]

Milk consumption occurs in two distinct overall types: a natural source of nutrition for all infant mammals and a food product obtained from other mammals for consumption by humans of all ages. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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