General Health Risks of Milk in the Diet

Cows currently have been genetically and nutritionally - by way of high protein, soy-based foods - modified to grow abnormally large pituitary glands, so that they can produce 3 times more milk than Nature had originally intended them to do. They then need antibiotics to keep them disease-frart_health_milk.htmee, being, in such an unnatural physiological state, more prone to disease. The milk is pasteurised, thus destroying all precious enzymes, and homogenised, thus predisposing it to become rancid.

Another matter to be mentioned today, when so much emphasis is being placed on non-fat diet - skim milk is not to be preferred, as without a fat component in milk, the body cannot absorb or use the vitamins and minerals in the milk, and the fat in butter also contains important fatty acids and trace minerals. Dr. Kradjian addresses the Cow's Milk Story

Cow's milk is also the primary cause of ear infections and the number one allergy food, causing diarrhea, cramps, gas, iron-deficiency anemia, skin rashes, acne etc.

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) is a genetically engineered copy of a naturally occurring hormone produced by cows. It is  manufactured by Monsanto Company, and sold to dairy farmers under the name POSILAC. It is injected into the cows and increases milk production by up to 15% . It has been approved by the FDA but boycotted by a high % of US dairy farmers and banned in Europe and Canada.  BGH/BST in your milk  BGH survives pasteurisation and can be absorbed into the human bloodstream in infants and can lead to breast, colon cancer and heart disease.

No, there is no risk that by cutting out Milk and related products from your diet that you will suffer from Calcium deficiency. It is in fact, the phosphorous in cow's milk that can prevent you from absorbing the calcium in milk anyway. The milk protein also causes calcium excretion from the blood to increase. You can get all the calcium you need from dark greeb leafy vegetables/salad - increase your excercise and ensure plenty of sunshine. How do you think animals like the great apes, or bison, who have very strong, dense bones, get their Calcium? The Myth that osteoporosis is caused by calcium deficiency

Cruelty of the Milking process

Cows are forced to have a calf every year, and giving birth that often is very physically demanding. They are also forced to give milk during seven months of their nine month pregnancy.- producing 100 lbs. of milk a day - ten times more than they would in nature and they suffer from e.g. mastitis, infection of the udder, leukemia, immunodeficiency, etc.  To produce so much milk they are given many supplements which in turn cause susceptibility to disease. So although in nature a cow would live 25 years, on modern dairies they are slaughtered after just 3 years.

There is a further issue with the drinking of Milk. Milk is designed for the young of the cow, not the young of the Human. Moments after birth, calves are taken away from the mothers, causing the mothers intense suffering. Their just-born calves, still very fragile, are loaded onto trucks and put in crates for transport and often very roughly handled. In fact the time spent cramped in such a crate is used to help 'tenderise' the calves' meat. Many other cruelties are inflicted on the calf to effect 'light coloured ' meat etc.

Letter by Moly Hamilton Citizens against animal cruelty and exploitation "I was raised on a dairy farm in upstate New York. My father, brother, uncles, and brother-in-laws were all hunters. One of my uncles was a trapper. Being raised on a dairy farm I learned all aspects of the dairy industry. I worked on the farm milking cows, raising baby calves, dogs, cats and kittens. My uncle who was a trapper used to drown the kittens in a milk bucket of water as to not prevent over population. They were never educated on spaying and neutering. I was trained in birthing of the cows and assisted many times in bringing baby calves into the world. I was also trained in veterenarian medicine learning how to give injections of penicillin for mastitis, and other antibibiotics. I also learned how to sew up cuts and adhesions on the tits from being cut from barb wire fences and brush out in the meadows and fields. I grew up on a diet of slaughtering our own cows for meat and deer meat. I had always loved animals and found it horrifying and barbaric when I watched the slaughter of a farm animal or a male baby calf taken away from it's mother to be taken to the auction the next day to be sold for veal. I used to go to the cattle auctions with my father. Seeing the cows being hit and prodded and tortured when they could hardly stand tore my heart out. At one point in my life after I grew older I would go to the cattle auctions and buy little baby jersey calves with what little money I had just to save them from going to slaughter. I had an elderly gentleman who had a loving heart and had a farm who let me keep the baby's at his farm where they would live their life in peace until they died."

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