Milk reform on menu

Milk is the first food for humans and animals. Thus across cultures milk has come to symbolise life, fertility and health. Cleopatra famously bathed in asses' milk. More prosaically, EU production of this basic foodstuff is regulated under the Common Agricultural Policy. Such regulation has to keep up with trends in production and consumption. On the 4 September 2007 the European Parliament debated three reports related to milk reform and the European milk market by German Christian Democrat Elisabeth Jeggle.