Lettre du 16 octobre 2009
It is the journalist Anne KARPF which has written this article, very documented on the political history of milk in England, the scientific researchs and the reactions of the dairy lobbies for about fifty year. It is easy to make in the same way for France, the policy of France is not very different, remember the year 1954 with milk glass at the school of Mendès France to mitigate malnutrition. But you knew that with La Fontaine and his Perrette , milk was very little used by the rural populations, more than 90% of french population, and any commercial exchange worthy of this name, it especially were transformed in cheese and butter or were used by calves. But it's as during the 17 ° century as its consumption starts to develop, then gradually the following centuries it becomes fashonable and a product running like the coffee or the chocolate.
In 1870, Pasteur discovers the form of the conservation of the micro-organisms. In 1875 , creation of the Company of encouragement to the Milk industry. 1880, first industrial production of Camembert cheese. After the First World War a decree dated March 25th, 1924 confirmed by the ministerial circular of October 9th, 1924 establishes that the denomination milk without indication of the animal specie is reserved for the cow's milk. Any milk coming from a dairy female other that the cow must be indicated by the denomination milk followed by the indication of the animal specie from which it comes. And here how the preeminence of the cow's milk was organized.
Let us take again the course of the last part of the 20° century. In 1976, a lawful measurement was founded by the European Council, aiming at subsidizing the milk distribution and dairy products to the schoolboys of the Member States. Extremely benefits of this measurement, the French government grants, since 1995, an additional national subsidy for the pupils of the establishments located in ZEP, ZUS and REP . Thus Europe recently reinforced the assistances allocated with the distribution with milk in the schools.
Strong on this example, FAO (United Nations Organization for the food and agriculture) wanted to stimulate the distribution programmes in the whole world. In 2000, FAO started the Milk World Day at school, traditionally held last Wednesday of September of each year. It is one day activities centered on the milk programs in schools of more than 40 countries. Its objective is to inform and sensitize, with the world plan, the populations on the benefits of the milk distribution to the schoolboys. Everyone is concerned: elected officials and politicians, teachers and schools, persons in charge of the medical and social action, milk industry and the agricultural world, and families. It especially makes them take the good practice to drink milk,
Info :
305,000 tons it is the equivalent milk distributed by the European Program
“Milk at the schools” during the school year 2006-2007.
However the AFSSA, (the French Agency of public health of food) recently the wise ones of the AFSSA considered that “was not justified” and could encourage nibbling. It is severely that the AFSSA moreover affirmed that: “this additional food catch is at the origin of a food excess which has been able only to support the increase in the prevalence of the obesity noted for 30 years in the children of school age in France”.