Research is key
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I am thinking about research this morning, in light of the recent item about how milk phospholipids reduce stress, according to Fonterra’s recent trial on people with moderate levels of stress and the effect of supplementing them with these dairy-derived ingredients. In a world where one stress often follows another, it is good to see how we learn how dairy continues to help people. Anxiety is an international phenomenon, and anything that helps it is to be applauded. The research behind this grows. We always knew yogurt was good for us.
Evolution-wise, being able to digest the sugar in milk was probably the biggest benefit to human populations over the last 10,000 years, the recent webinar from Dairy UK discussed, and milk has only evolved to be nutritious. And probably why so many people enjoy it, whether it’s liquid, cheese, yogurt or ice cream. It’s in our biology to like milk.
In other news, I point you to the Sunday Times magazine, which had on its cover a story about tramplings in the British countryside by cows being on the rise. Featuring a cow with a skull and crossbones on its flank. Hmm.
Now here’s the interesting paragraph: “Statistics only go back to 2010, when six people were killed by cattle, but in the five years between April 2017 and March 2022 there were 32 such deaths, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the national regulator for workplace health and safety. Of these, 23 were farm workers — the majority of whom died from crushing injuries — and 9 were members of the public. In the year 2020-21, 11 people were killed by cows, 5 of them members of the public. In the same year 31 people sustained non-fatal injuries.”
I do feel that every death and injury is a tragedy, but it also does show that the issue of increased rambling of the public across farms is one that has to be properly managed. The freedom to walk anywhere in the UK is a responsibility for both the public and farmers. Agriculture on its own is one of the most lethal of professions, but this is often not taken into account by the public. And no-one wants to be wandering into a place where large animals are milling without knowing how to handle it. As they used to say on Hill Street Blues (a US police show), “Let’s be careful out there.”
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