Dairy Farming Is Recent
The human body is not designed to consume bovine milk. Just recently, humans started drinking milk of another mammals. This occurred in the last 6,000 years. Now milk is seen by the average American as a health food.
This page on health concerns includes these key facts:
- The FDA allows 750 million pus cells in every liter of milk. That's about 30 million pus cells per mouthful of milk.
- Over 70 per cent of the world do not drink milk as adults
- Dairy blocks the absorption of plant's phytonutrients
- Cow’s milk is one of the primary causes of food allergies among children
- Formula fed babies have a lower level of brain development and have lower intelligence than babies that are breast fed.
- Medical studies indicate that milk may increase women’s risk of getting osteoporosis. A Harvard Nurses’ Study of more than 77,000 women ages 34 to 59 found that those who consumed two or more glasses of milk per day had higher risks of broken hips and arms than those who drank one glass or less per day.
- Cow's milk have 59 active hormones, scores of allergens, fat, and cholesterol.
- Most cow's milk has measurable quantities of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins, up to 53 powerful antibiotics, as well as blood, pus, feces, bacteria, and viruses.
Most people in the world, over 70 per cent, do not drink milk as adults. No other animal on the planet continues to drink milk after weaning, and not just that, drink milk from another species that is usually pregnant.
Milking the Cash Cow
Like all mammals, cows do not produce milk unless they’ve given birth. Their offspring are taken away and the milking begins. The modern dairy cow is routinely impregnated while she is still producing milk, to extend the milking period and keep the yield high. Cows in factory farms never get to rest.
At least two-thirds of cow’s milk is taken from pregnant cows. The cow's milk is a rich cocktail of hormones and growth factors designed to help a young calf grow rapidly into an adult cow in just one year.
An intensive cycle of repeated pregnancies follows until she is worn out and her productivity drops, then she is slaughtered and sold for cheap meat. This intensive physical demand puts a tremendous strain on the dairy cow and, as she gets older, infertility and severe infections causing mastitis and lameness cut her life short. The average lifespan of a modern dairy cow is now only about five years – that is after three or four lactations, when naturally she may live for 20 to 30 years.
Perfect Food for Calves Only
Cow’s milk is perfect for calves but not for people, neither is buffalo, badger, dog, or rat milk. The best milk for babies is human breast milk. Cow’s milk contains more than twice as much protein and four times as much calcium as human milk, which makes it an ideal fuel for rapid growth. Human babies grow much slower, but our brain development is rapid, so breast milk contains five times as much brain-boosting polyunsaturated fat as cow’s milk. Breast milk also carries important chemical ‘messenger’ molecules that instruct the infant’s immune systems. These features have evolved over thousands of years and are vital in terms of health and disease.
Human Bodies Fight Cow’s Milk
Besides humans (and companion animals who are fed by humans), no species drinks milk beyond infancy or drinks the milk of another species. Cow’s milk is suited to the nutritional needs of calves, who have four stomachs and gain hundreds of pounds in a matter of months, sometimes weighing more than 1,000 pounds before they are two years old.
Also, cow’s milk is one of the primary causes of food allergies among children. Most people begin to produce less lactase, the enzyme that helps with the digestion of milk, when they are as young as two years old. This reduction can lead to lactose intolerance. Millions of Americans are lactose intolerant, and an estimated 95 percent of Asian-Americans and 80 percent of Native and African Americans suffer from the condition, which can cause bloating, gas, cramps, vomiting, headaches, rashes, and asthma. Additionally, it is notable that people who suffered from irregular heartbeats, asthma, headaches, fatigue, and digestive problems showed marked and often complete improvements in their health after cutting milk from their diets.
Dairy Blocks the Absorption of Phytonutrients
Plants contain more than 100,000 phytonutrients, one of the reasons nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day are recommended. Phytonutrients may in part account for the benefits of whole plant foods in cancer prevention. Dates, berries, strawberries, coffee, chai tea, and green tea are high in phytonutrients. However, after adding milk the absorption of these phytonutrients will be blocked.
Calcium and Protein Myths
Although American women consume tremendous amounts of calcium, their rates of osteoporosis are among the highest in the world. Medical studies indicate that rather than preventing the disease, milk may actually increase women’s risk of getting osteoporosis. A Harvard Nurses’ Study of more than 77,000 women ages 34 to 59 found that those who consumed two or more glasses of milk per day had higher risks of broken hips and arms than those who drank one glass or less per day. T. Colin Campbell, professor of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University, said, “The association between the intake of animal protein and fracture rates appears to be as strong as that between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.”
Humans can get all the protein that they need from nuts, seeds, yeast, grains, beans, and other legumes. It’s very difficult not to get enough calories from protein when you eat a healthy diet; protein deficiency is very rare in the US
Say No to Infant Formula
Infant formula is a manufactured breast milk substitute using baby calves' milk. The formula has inferior nutrient content compared to human breast milk. Baby calves' milk prioritizes the fast development of large bodies and develops small brains. Research has shown that for some babies consuming cow protein contributes to their autism and juvenile diabetes. Human breast milk is optimal for growing larger infant brains.
By age two, children that were breast fed had 30 percent more brain matter compared to those given formula.
The extra growth was most pronounced in parts of the brain associated with language, emotional function, and cognition. The larger brains correlated to higher IQ's.
A follow up study observed that breastfeeding was positively associated with performance and intelligence at 30 years old, as with education, achievements, and higher incomes.
Is Organic Milk Healthy?
Organic and regular cow's milk both contain a wide range of dangerous and disease-causing substances. Both have a cumulative negative effect on all who consume it. Cow's milk is an unhealthy fluid from diseased animals.
Organic and regular cow's milk have 59 active hormones, scores of allergens, fat, and cholesterol. Most cow's milk has measurable quantities of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins (up to 200 times the safe levels), up to 53 powerful antibiotics, as well as blood, pus, feces, bacteria, and viruses. Cow's milk can have traces of anything the cow ate, including strontium-90 radioactive fallout from long ago nuclear testing.
Organic milk does contain less pesticides, no antibiotics, and no artificial growth hormones as compared to regular cow's milk. Unfortunately most organic dairy cows do not eat grass. So, while they are given "access" to grass pasture, the rules do not stipulate how often or how long those cows should be grazing outdoors. The nutrition guidelines are vague, allowing factory farms to continue feeding cows mostly grains. Organic dairy cows are not healthy cows. Cows are meant to eat grass, not grains.
Checking milk quality involves 'bulk tank somatic cell count' which is used to monitor bacterial levels indicating mastitis, infection of the udders. This is basically testing for pus in milk. Counts from 250,000-300,000 indicate mastitis. That is a lot of pus in milk and is not removed from the milk when pasteurized.
Cows producing organic milk are not given antibiotics to treat or prevent mastitis. These udder infections create puss and blood that go directly into the milk. The puss and blood are not removed. The organic milk is just pasteurized.
The FDA allows 750 million pus cells in every liter of milk. That's about 30 million pus cells per mouthful of milk. The European Union only allows 400,000 cells per milliliter. This pus, like pimple zit, contain paratuberculosis bacteria. Regular milk contains large doses of antibiotics, which inhibit the development of children's immune system.
Why would you want to drink milk with 59 hormones and with enough white pus to mask out the red blood coming from a sick abused cow. Who wants to drink organic milk with zits?
Most organic milk is dead and requires no refrigeration. Due to a pasteurization process called UHT, the milk can sit on the counter for up to nine months unopened before going bad. Currently 80% of organic milk is UHT pasteurized.
The pasteurization and UHT processing kill off the enzymes present in milk needed to digest the milk protein casein. Also, the casein itself is altered to the point of being indigestible. Calves fed on pasteurized milk become sick and die within weeks.