When we were planning for Operation Flood we decided to look at these problems afresh. My colleagues and I examined what our wives and mothers were doing. These were, no doubt, traditional habits. But it was these habits that had kept us healthy because 40 per cent of our cows and buffaloes have bugs and some of these filter into the milk. Boiling safeguarded the milk and also increased its life. But then why were we pasteurising it? Why were we bottling it if it was being unbottled? Why should we transport a pound of glass with every pound of milk and bring back that pound of glass, sterilise
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