The Retort

The Other Side of Dairy

Tue January 19th, 2010 by Nicole Maas For The Retort

After a conversation today with a co-worker about how unhealthy cow’s milk is for humans (my co-worker insisted it’s healthy and nutritious and expressed shock that I questioned that), I realized for about the two-millionth time just how influenced (indoctrinated) we are by the advertising (propaganda) of major corporations.

Of course the dairy cabal wants us all to think of milk as “nature’s most perfect food,” and it is…for calves. Or at least it would be if it weren’t for all of the human-added toxins it contains.

Dave Rietz of notmilk.com describes cow’s milk as “…an unhealthy fluid from diseased animals that contains a wide range of dangerous and disease-causing substances that have a cumulative negative effect on all who consume it.” Cow’s milk contains unsafe, measurable levels of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins and over 50 types of antibiotics. It also contains pus (caused by mastitis), blood, feces, bacteria and viruses and is loaded with fat and cholesterol.

You would have to eat 53 slices of bacon to equal the cholesterol content of three glasses of milk, which is the recommended daily intake. (I’ve never met a doctor who would recommend that I eat 53 slices of bacon per day and yet most of them express concern for my health when I tell them I do not drink cow’s milk…hmmm…)

Cows produce milk for the same reason humans do: to nourish their young. Their calves are taken from them after only one day so that humans, not calves, can consume their milk. Dairy cows spend their entire lives chained inside concrete stalls. They are artificially inseminated every 10 months—the device used to inseminate them is not-so-euphemistically referred to by the industry as the “rape rack” (which is supposed to be funny, I guess). After their bodies have been used to the point of exhaustion and collapse, they are slaughtered (the slaughterhouse is another subject altogether).

Humans are the only species on the planet who consume the mammary secretions of other species of animals, and we are the only species who consume milk after infancy. Calcium is available in abundance in green vegetables, fortified non-dairy milks and juices, grains, beans and fruits. Please visit milksucks.com for more information.