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Got (Raw) Milk? How the Cow Became a Culture Warrior
Got (Raw) Milk? How the Cow Became a Culture Warrior
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It’s not just about what you put on your cereal. Meet the raw milk revolutionaries who are raging against the machine.
By Suzy Weiss
01.11.23 — Culture and Ideas
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Got (Raw) Milk? How the Cow Became a Culture Warrior

Before his conversion, Kale Hyder—a 23-year-old Morgan Stanley analyst who lives in Baltimore—was one of those trendy, enviro-conscious consumers who buy Oatly and Beyond Meat patties at the grocery store. These days he barely goes to the grocery store at all, and certainly not for plant-based replicas of milk and meat. 

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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