Andrea Freeman

wait, we can give this to poor people.

So they started taking trucks and getting huge blocks of cheese and going to poor neighborhoods.

They give it to Indian reservations through the food distribution program for Indian reservations, even though Indigenous people also cannot, for the most part, tolerate drinking milk.

What they've done is subsidize an industry that

The demand has fallen to a great extreme.

But then instead of just saying, all right, this market is not working, they just prop it up.

Coming up after the break.

A sort of neo-Nazi group went to protest.

And the form of their protest was to take off their shirts and get huge gallons of milk and chug them.

Where does it start?

This goes back to the 1910s and 20s.

There was a biochemist, his name is E.V.

McCollum, and he began doing experiments with milk and started publishing about milk being a superior product.

And Herbert Hoover, who was head of the Food Administration at that time, that caught his eye.

And he started sending McCollum around the country to make speeches promoting milk.

saying, y'all should drink milk.

It's so healthy.

It's a protective food.

And also, it's really great because white people and Aryans drink it, and they're the smartest and the strongest.

And if you drink milk, you'll be the best of people, the white people.