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Dairy consumption has been part of the human diet throughout recorded history and wealth in
many agrarian societies has been measured by the number of cows owned. The Greek physician
Hippocrates recommended milk as a medicine some 2,300 year ago. Images of cows in art have
been a favorite subject of artists and range from cave paintings in Lascaux, France (10-15,000
B.C.) to the pop art of Andy Warhol. The Cornell Farm (1848) by Edward Hicks, a gift of Edgar
William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, copyright, 2000 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC.
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