“WHAT?” I can just hear you saying out loud. “But I thought that milk provided me with calcium & essential nutrients?” No, you’re not a calf, right? Nor are you a baby. Think about it this way: We scoff at mothers who let their child past a certain age still suckle at their breast, yet adults drink gallons of milk…although not from their mommies, but from another species. Does this make sense to you? It certainly doesn’t to me!
As Kim Barnouin & Rory Freedman point out in their book, “Skinny Bitch“, “We don’t need our mother’s milks as adults, just like grown cows don’t need their mothers’ milk anymore. We are the only species on the planet that drinks the milk of another species. We could be putting gorilla milk on our cereal or having zebra milk and cookies. Why cows’ milk? Using the animal that produces the largest quantity of milk but is more easily housed than an elephant means more money for farmers. It has nothing to do with health and nutrition…The dairy industry is a multibillion-dollar industry based on brilliant marketing and the addictive taste of milk, butter, and cheese. It has convinced doctors, consumers, and government agencies that we need cows’ milk.” (p. 57 – The Dairy Disaster) Yes, indeed you are being lied to…BIG time!
Like Banksy, the Brittish graffiti artist who made the sign above, I’d hold this up to the dairy industry! “YOU LIE” to your consumers…and you know it! Meanwhile the public is getting heavier around the waistline and sicker from its products, but do you think they care? No they don’t! I hate to break it to you, but your health is in your hands! None of them care as long as they are making a profit! This is a business that’s about money…big time money and certainly not about your health! If you get sick then their friends in the pharmaceutical industry benefit as well because now you need drugs to stay healthy & alive! Meanwhile, you’re being bombarded with images like the one below. Portraying intelligent people, whom most of us trust, like Dr. Phil or Meredith Vieira and other celebrities trying to convince us that we must “get it” or else we’re just not that smart. It’s shameful!
Here’s something to consider from Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, author of The 30-Day Vegan Challenge, she writes, “In cow’s milk, 80-87 percent of the proteins are caseins, which is not a good thing. According to renowned researcher and professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University T. Colin Campbell, casein is the “number one carcinogen [cancer-causing substance] that people come into contact with on a daily basis.” In dairy-based cheeses, the casein is even more concentrated, and in low-fat dairy milks, there tends to be more casein to make up for the fat that has been removed.” (p. 54-55) Not only is casein in milk a huge problem, but there’s also dioxin to consider, which is one of the most toxic substances in the world, often found in dairy products. Yikes, doesn’t that sound appetizing?
And there’s more toxic stuff for your body to battle with. Freedman & Barnouin write, “Sickening high levels of pesticides found in dairy meet government standards. Records from the Food and Drug Administration show that “virtually 100% of the cheese products produced and sold in the U.S. has detectable pesticide residues.” Would you like a glass of wine & crackers with that? I didn’t think so.
Here we are being lulled into thinking milk is good for us and like a friend said to me recently, “The people around us are starting to look more and more like the people in the cartoon Wall-E!” But is that their fault?
Very informative – I would like to point out as an addendum to your post that not only does milk do the body harm, but we in fact, might as well drink poison – the effects would be similar.
When we consume milk and dairy products, it has an immediate effect on our bodies – it turns our blood against us. It turns our blood acidic. It actually changes the PH balance of our blood – and this is not a good thing. Our immune system kicks in and does its best to recover. The only way it can is by leaching out calcium from our bones to counteract the PH change. As it does this – it slowly changes back to the way it should – with one major change – our bones over time become more and more brittle as a result. They simply have less calcium in them. The excess calcium is excreted in our urine and this contributes to lower intestinal blockages over time. Know someone who has to go in for a gall bladder stone removal? Well guess what! If you look at societies who drink the most amount of milk – you will see that the western diet has the highest amount of osteoporosis in the world. There are some Asian countries where very little dairy products are consumed and they have some of the lowest counts of osteoporosis in the world.
The lie that people are fed about “milk, it does a body good” couldn’t be further from the truth. We are told that women especially need to drink and consume lots of milk and dairy products to help protect themselves from the onset osteoporosis as a middle age adult. This is another lie. People who consume milk and dairy products are actually rapidly assisting the onset of osteoporosis. The calcium loss is directly contributed to the amount of dairy products we consume in our lives. So the next time you think you need more calcium in your diet and need to eat and drink milk and dairy – remember the lie. This is not about YOUR health and well being – it’s about THEIR profit and nothing more.
Thank you so much for your comment, Stormbringer! I really appreciate the extra information that you have provided for my readers! It’s excellent and so true! In Scandinavia, where there’s a lot of dairy consumption – they also have a significant number of people with osteoporosis and hip fractures all due to dairy consumption! Yet, people have no clue! The last time I was there, this woman who worked at the pharmacy was telling this old woman, “Yes, take these calcium supplements and then remember to drink your milk and eat your dairy!” I just couldn’t help myself! I had to say something. Not only is taking calcium bad for your heart but dairy…it does no body no good, as Chef AJ would say!
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