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Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941

Atkins, P.J.

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Abstract

Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The introduction of school milk in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century was a relatively slow process. This article seeks to understand state and private sector initiatives in the light of four issues: nutrition, political factors, problems in the dairy industry, and the moulding of the consumers of the future. Overall, the nutritional benefits of school milk are debatable, possibly even negative in those areas where it replaced other foods; but the dairy industry did well, creating new markets at a time of depression. After the war school milk reached the zenith of its popularity.

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Atkins, P. (2005). Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The Economic History Review, 58(1), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00298.x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2005
Deposit Date Nov 7, 2006
Journal Economic History Review
Print ISSN 0013-0117
Electronic ISSN 1468-0289
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 58
Issue 1
Pages 57-78
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2005.00298.x