How is drinking milk cruel?!
How is drinking milk cruel?
There is absolutely nothing cruel about milking and using dairy products, this is what we call a symbiotic relatiionship. It would be cruel not to milk the cow, for cows are in pain everymorning because their udders are full of milk, they love to be milked.
There are only 2 real reasons to not consume milk
1. You are Hindu
2. You want to eliminate all animal/human relationship, only PETA is as ******* extreme to do that, it is completely unnatural to eliminate that relationship and would never happen in reality
6 months ago
And another thing, I've seen alot of weak tiny vegans, I'm much bigger than any vegan I've seen yet, my bones are bigger and stronger. Milk is a vital source of calcium, it is very healthy.
6 months ago
Calcium is needed for bone repair, when broken calcium deposits fill in, and are a major factor in reactive tissue, bones cannot become stronger than the bones already there. If you punch a wall, the bones supporting the knuckles are strengthened by calcium deposits, which is the one and only reason how martial artists can smash bricks and wood with their fists.
6 months ago
PETA tried to play on teenager's emotions by making the claim that milk gives you zits "Got Zits?" remember that? And since you guys aren't eating meat either, your source of complete proteins is completely gone, you can't get them from any other place, not even peanuts, they only give you incomplete proteins. Milk also being a good source of Vitamin A.
6 months ago
You guys think I didn't look into this? I've been studying nutrition. I've been in a strength and conditioning class for 3 years and the coach teaches nutrition. Don't think that's why I'm bigger and stronger than vegans. Before the class I weighed 135. Even though I've gained alot of weight in just bone and muscles.
“For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs” (Romans 14:2)
6 months ago
Talk about arrogance, "I don't drink milk because it's nasty"- I find people like that to be indeed nasty, their views of vain sensitivity to animals, and your Godlessness (which I have just stated in the last detail added)
6 months ago
And for those that think it's fattening, for one, you need fat- without it you would be in horrible shape, for two, start running some laps if you are that worried about your weight- pasta is far more fattening than milk due to high amounts of carbohydrates, but it's really healthy for your body.
6 months ago
Don't stand for PETA, they are an extremist group, they want to eliminate all human and animal companionship, they want to take your pet cat from you, they want to take your family pooch from you. No one should ever be on the side of PETA, they kill animals (haven't you heard?) they've so many dogs and cats that they've taken in. Why? Because they were making money, many people were donating to PETA and they had alot of feral dogs and cats, they euthanized ALOT of them, they threw their bodies to the side of the road, they've dumped them in trash bins. They've been charged with animal cruelty and illegal disposal of bodies.
They've told many young students that they'd fight for them in court and bail them out if they did something violent or illegal in the name of animal rights, they've promoted rioting and violence. How can anyone, after knowing this, be for PETA and simultaneously be for peace with animals?
Answers:
6 months ago
And another thing, I've seen alot of weak tiny vegans, I'm much bigger than any vegan I've seen yet, my bones are bigger and stronger. Milk is a vital source of calcium, it is very healthy.
6 months ago
Calcium is needed for bone repair, when broken calcium deposits fill in, and are a major factor in reactive tissue, bones cannot become stronger than the bones already there. If you punch a wall, the bones supporting the knuckles are strengthened by calcium deposits, which is the one and only reason how martial artists can smash bricks and wood with their fists.
6 months ago
PETA tried to play on teenager's emotions by making the claim that milk gives you zits "Got Zits?" remember that? And since you guys aren't eating meat either, your source of complete proteins is completely gone, you can't get them from any other place, not even peanuts, they only give you incomplete proteins. Milk also being a good source of Vitamin A.
6 months ago
You guys think I didn't look into this? I've been studying nutrition. I've been in a strength and conditioning class for 3 years and the coach teaches nutrition. Don't think that's why I'm bigger and stronger than vegans. Before the class I weighed 135. Even though I've gained alot of weight in just bone and muscles.
“For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs” (Romans 14:2)
6 months ago
Talk about arrogance, "I don't drink milk because it's nasty"- I find people like that to be indeed nasty, their views of vain sensitivity to animals, and your Godlessness (which I have just stated in the last detail added)
6 months ago
And for those that think it's fattening, for one, you need fat- without it you would be in horrible shape, for two, start running some laps if you are that worried about your weight- pasta is far more fattening than milk due to high amounts of carbohydrates, but it's really healthy for your body.
6 months ago
Don't stand for PETA, they are an extremist group, they want to eliminate all human and animal companionship, they want to take your pet cat from you, they want to take your family pooch from you. No one should ever be on the side of PETA, they kill animals (haven't you heard?) they've so many dogs and cats that they've taken in. Why? Because they were making money, many people were donating to PETA and they had alot of feral dogs and cats, they euthanized ALOT of them, they threw their bodies to the side of the road, they've dumped them in trash bins. They've been charged with animal cruelty and illegal disposal of bodies.
They've told many young students that they'd fight for them in court and bail them out if they did something violent or illegal in the name of animal rights, they've promoted rioting and violence. How can anyone, after knowing this, be for PETA and simultaneously be for peace with animals?
Cows wouldn't be so painfully engorged if:
1) they weren't fed hormones that made them produce huge volumes of milk
2) their milk was left for THEIR OWN BABIES
3) human beings weren't so damned GREEDY
If you're doing ANYTHING to an animal which requires them to ingest antibiotics so that they can get better after you've manhandled them, then you're in the COMPLETE WRONG for having anything to do with that animal, right? Are you gonna rub a dog's paws raw, then feed it antibiotics, then rub the paws raw again? Of course not, only an idiot can't see that's cruel. So how is a milking machine any better, any more humane? It's not, it's cruel.
Oh, and why are we drinking it in the first place? Where are the baby cows? They've been removed from their mothers, that's what's happened to them. The females are raised to be dairy cows, and the males live in cramped pens so that their legs atrophy, and then they become veal. Boy, talk about 1) human greed, and 2) human arrogance, playing God like that, manipulating animals for our own pocketbooks and bellies.
Would YOU like to have been separated from your mother??? Would your mother have liked for you to be removed from her, without her consent??? Of course not. Why, then, would human beings do that to other creatures?? It's simple: GREED.
How is this not cruel??????????????????
Source(s):
PETA!!!!!!!!!
http://www.peta.org
I don't drink milk because it's gross (it comes out of a cow's mammary gland for christ's sake). I'd rather milk a soy bean any day.
or 3; Lactose intolerance
It isn't cruel. Milking an animal (or even a person for that matter) actually helps them. If they aren't milked their teats will become engorged, and it will hurt them and could lead to an infection.
Ask any breastfeeding mother.
dairy cows are, in a way, tortured. they walk to the milking sheds 3 times a day 7 days a week even if they have no strengh. they die 7 or 8 years before there meant to.
Drinking milk and consuming dairy products is considered cruel because the cows have to constantly impregnated and give birth in order to keep them lactating consistently. The calves are seperated from their mothers and slaughtered for veal or raised on feed.
Also, the constant milking is hard on a cow's teats. They can become irritated, inflamed and infected. There is a risk that the milk will be contaminated and the use of antibiotics used may enter the milk.
There are environmental concerns as well. Milk is very costly to produce in terms of water, feed, labor and its impact on the environment. Milk prices in the US are kept low through government subsidies so we don't realize it.
The wikipedia link provides helpful objective information.
1.98% of all milk in the U.S. comes from factory farmed animals
2.When a male calf is born,he is slaughtered or raised for veal,because he can't produce milk
3.they are hooked up to milking machines and kept in an 8X10 pen,sure they love that
4.she is kept constantly pregnant to produce milk
5.Cows milk is for baby cows,usually in factory farms they get none of it
6.milk doesn't give you strong bones,you've been simply taught to think that by the dairy industry(excess dietary protein leans to calcium excretion through the kidney's)MYTH: "Milk is necessary for strong bones."
FACT: McDougall: "Where does a cow or an elephant get the calcium needed to grow its huge bones? From plants, of course. Only plants. … People in Asia and Africa who consume no milk products after they're weaned from their mother's breast grow perfectly healthy skeletons in the normal size for their race. A consistent conclusion published in the scientific literature is clear: Calcium deficiency of dietary origin is unknown in humans. Dairy products contain large amounts of animal proteins. This excess protein removes calcium from the body by way of the kidneys. Knowing the physiological effects on calcium metabolism of eating excess protein explains why societies with the highest intakes of meat and dairy products--the United States, England, Israel, Finland, and Sweden--also show the highest rates of osteoporosis, the disease of bone-thinning."
7. All animals in factory farms are given hormones/antibiotics
8.You have no need for cow's milk,you don't need elephant milk,you don't need dog's milk,you don't need rat milk,why would you need cow's milk?
9.No species drinks milk after infancy,humans don't need to either
10.I could go on and on,but I'll just give you this
Yes... milk is Mother Nature's "perfect food" ...for a calf... until it is weaned.
Everything you know about cow's milk and dairy is probably part of a Dairy industry MYTH.
Cow's milk is 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.
MILK'S BASIC CONTENTS
*ALL* cow's milk (regular and 'organic') has 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 52 powerful antibiotics (perhaps 53, with LS-50), blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. (Cow's milk can have traces of anything the cow ate... including such things as radioactive fallout from nuke testing ... (the 50's strontium-90 problem).
LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN AMERICA
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadc... (1998)
Rank Total Description
1 724,859 Heart Disease (think fats/cholesterol: meat/dairy)
2 541,532 Malignant Neoplasms (cancer: think toxins/milk/dairy)
2a 250,000 Medical system (drugs/etc. think ignorance/incompetence)
3 158,448 Cerebro-vascular (think meat milk and dairy)
4 112,584 Bronchitis Emphysema Asthma (think toxins/milk/dairy)
5 97,835 Unintentional Injuries and Adverse Effects
6 91,871 Pneumonia & Influenza (think weak immune systems and
mucus)
7 64,751 Diabetes (think milk/dairy)
7a 40,000+ Highway slaughter (men, women and children)
8 30,575 Suicide (think behavioral problems)
9 26,182 Nephritis (Bright's disease: inflammation of the
kidneys)
10 25,192 Liver Disease (think alcohol and other toxins)
(2a and 7a were added for completeness)
(note: Number 13 on the CDC list is -18,272 Homicide & Legal Intervention-. It is curious that the CDC would readily list law enforcement and homicides... and not the 250,000 deaths caused by the medical system!)
CANCER FUEL
Of those 59 hormones one is a powerful GROWTH hormone called Insulin- like Growth Factor ONE (IGF-1). By a freak of nature it is identical in cows and humans. Consider this hormone to be a "fuel cell" for any cancer... (the medical world says IGF-1 is a key factor in the rapid growth and proliferation of breast, prostate and colon cancers, and we suspect that most likely it will be found to promote ALL cancers).
IGF-1 is a normal part of ALL milk... the newborn is SUPPOSED to grow quickly! What makes the 50% of obese American consumers think they need MORE growth? Consumers don't think anything about it because they do not have a clue to the problem... nor do most of our doctors.
(See http://www.notmilk.com/igf1time.txt... for a time line)
QUANTITY
Each bite of hard cheese has TEN TIMES whatever was in that sip of milk... because it takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese. Each bite of ice cream has 12 times ... and every swipe of butter 21 times whatever is contained in the fat molecules in a sip of milk.
MONSANTO AND rbGH (Posilac)
Monsanto Chemical Co., maker of fine poisons such as DDT, agent orange, Roundup and more... spent around half a billion dollars inventing a shot to inject into cows... to force a cow to produce MORE milk (for an already glutted taxpayer subsidized market).
Unfortunately, they created *FIVE* errors in their Frankenstein Posilac (rbGH) shot that direly affected all test animals... but that important report (Richard, Odaglia & Deslex, 1989) has been hidden from everyone under Clinton's Trade Secrets act. The Canadians read enough of this report (before it was stolen) to reject rbGH for their country.
Monsanto's Posilac creates additional IGF-1 in milk: up to 80% more.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) insists that IGF-1 is destroyed in the stomach. If that were true, the FDA has proven that breast feeding cannot work. Common sense says their "finding" is ridiculous because this growth factor DOES make the baby calf grow (rapidly, as mother natured intended). Visit the Dairy Education Board at http://www.notmilk.com/deb/100399.html... to review a DAIRY study that confirms what the FDA has lied about this for years.
IGF-1 INCREASES
This study involved two groups. One group consuming 12 ounces of milk a day and the other consuming the USDA recommended allowance of 24 ounces (three cups). This report notes that the participants consuming 12 ounces more milk per day... HAD A 10% RISE IN IGF-1 IN THEIR BLOOD SERUM! Now, consider that PER DAY, from ALL sources, the typical milk/dairy consumer ingests approximately 39% of daily diet from dairy... and that 10% increase becomes the "tip of the iceberg". We have NO idea of the non-dairy versus full-dairy difference but considering cancer rates... it has to be significant.
FAT
Whole milk 49% of the calories are from fat.
"2%" milk 35% of the calories are from fat.
Cheddar cheese 74% of the calories are from fat.
Butter 100% of the calories are from fat.
Most folks suspect that butter is all fat. Most folks have no concept of the just how much fat is in the rest of milk and dairy. Perhaps the 54% of Americans who are obese need to comprehend that milk, ice cream, cheeses, yogurts, and all the OTHER products that use milk derivatives (casein, whey, lactose, colostrum) are most likely a significant cause for their weight and health problem.
CALCIUM
Calcium? Where do the COWS get calcium for their big bones? Yes... from plants! The calcium they consume from plants has a large amount of magnesium... necessary for the body to absorb and USE the calcium.
The calcium in cow's milk is basically useless because it has insufficient magnesium content (those nations with the highest amount of milk/dairy consumption also have the highest rates of osteoporosis. Proof? How about a controlled study of 78,000 nurses over a period of 12 years?
Read more about it at:
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/030799.html... Article on the 78,000 nurse study
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092098.html... CALCIUM AND BONE DISEASE
http://www.notmilk.com/badbones.html... WHO GETS BONE DISEASE?
http://www.notmilk.com/bonehead.txt... CRIPPLING BONEHEADS
http://www.notmilk.com/calcium/index.htm... Consolidated info
Cows milk has three times the calcium as does human breast milk. No matter, neither are very usable because in order to be absorbed and used their MUST be an equal quantity of MAGNESIUM (as exists in the greens that cows eat to get all the calcium they need for their big bones). Milk has only enough magnesium to absorb around 11% (33mg per cup) of calcium.
Per the USDA 8 ounces (one cup) of cows milk contains:
Calcium, Ca mg 291.336
Magnesium, Mg mg 32.794
The USDA recommends 1200mg of calcium per day. The USDA recommended three cups of milk a day only have 900mg of calcium. Some argue that only 1/3 of the magnesium is necessary. Mother nature seems to suggest it should be one to one. If the ratio for proper absorption were 1/3 magnesium to one calcium then no more than 300mg of that 900mg of calcium is usable. If, in fact, it is a one to one ratio... only 98.38mg of calcium is usable.
It is not a matter of how much calcium one ingests... but how much one does not lose.
PROTEIN
Milk can be thought of as "liquid meat" because of its high protein content which, in concert with other proteins, may actually LEACH calcium from the body. Countries that consume high protein diets (meat, milk and dairy) have the highest rates of osteoporosis.
THE 'WHOLESOME' PROTEIN MYTH
87% of milk is water. That makes it VERY expensive water.
Broken down into its basic groups... WHOLE MILK is:
WATER FAT CASEIN OTHER PROTEIN
87% 3.25% 4% 1% 4.75
(note: that is 3.25% "milkfat" which includes the 87% water.)
80% of the protein in milk is casein. Casein is a powerful binder... a
polymer used to make plastics... and a glue that is better used to make
sturdy furniture or hold beer bottle labels in place. It is in
thousands of processed foods as a binder... as "something" caseinate.
Casein is a powerful allergen... a histamine that creates lots of
mucus. The only medicine in Olympic athlete Flo-Jo's body was Benedryl,
a power antihistamine she took to combat her last meal... pizza.
For the whole Flo-Jo story:
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092198.html,...
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/111598.html... and
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/112398.html... for the whole story.
BACTERIA
Cow's milk is allowed to have feces in it. This is a major source for bacteria. Milk is typically pasteurized more than once before it gets to your table... each time for only 15 seconds at 162 degrees Fahrenheit.
To sanitize water one is told to boil it (212 degrees F) for several minutes. That is a tremendous disparity, isn't it!
Keep in mind that at room temperature the number of bacteria in milk DOUBLE around every 20 minutes. No wonder milk turns rotten very quickly.
PUS
ONE cubic centimeter (cc) of commercial cow's milk is allowed to have up to 750,000 somatic cells (common name is "PUS") and 20,000 live bacteria... before it is kept off the market.
That amounts to a whopping 20 million live squiggly bacteria and up to 750 MILLION pus cells per liter (bit more than a quart).
1 cup = 236.5882cc 177,441,150 pus cells ~ 4,731,600 bacteria
24 oz (3 glasses) = 532,323,450 pus cells ~ 14,220,000 bacteria
(the "recommended" daily intake)
The EU and the Canadians allow for a less "tasty" 400,000,000 pus cells per liter.
Typically these levels are lower... but they COULD reach these levels and still get to YOUR table.
CHOLESTEROL
The cholesterol content of those three glasses of milk is equal to what one would get from 53 slices of bacon. Do you know of any doctor who recommends that much bacon per day?
KOSHER
Is cow's milk and dairy "Kosher"? Consider this:
"D-3 always is derived from an animal. The sunlight reaction that converts 7-dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D-3 is a 'pure' chemical reaction that occurs in your skin in certain cells."
"The provitamin known as 7-dehydrocholesterol is extracted and isolated from the skins of mammals and purified." (Marian Herbert of the Vitamin D Workshop U of C)
Vitamin D-3 can come from four different sources:
Pig skin, sheep skin, raw fish liver, and pig brains. Most of the time, Vitamin D-3 is extracted from pig skin and sold to dairy processors.
Short answer to "is milk kosher" - probably not.
OTHER 'STUFF'
Fat and cholesterol. Lots of it. Per the dairy influenced USDA "food pyramid" all milk, dairy and meats should represent no more than 8% of the diet. Statistically, by volume of sales in a nation of 281 million Americans, it works out to almost 40% of the diet for MILK AND DAIRY.. without the meat.
The milk of each of the over 4,700 mammals on earth is formulated specifically for that species. There are special lactoferrins and immunoglobulins (cow specific immunizing stuff) that in humans serve as allergens.
LEUKEMIA
According to Hoards Dairyman (Volume 147, number 4)... 89% of America's dairy herds have the leukemia virus. (more at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me...
DIABETES
The protein lactalbumin, has been identified as a key factor in diabetes (and a major reason for NOT giving cows milk to infants).
CROHN'S DISEASE
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a bovine disease called "Johne's."
Cows diagnosed with Johne's Disease have diarrhea, and heavy fecal shedding of bacteria. This bacteria becomes cultured in milk, and is not destroyed by pasteurization. Occasionally, the milk-borne bacteria will begin to grow in the human host, and the results are irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's Disease.
MAD COW DISEASE
There may also be prions (pronounced PREons) in the milk and meat. This is crystalline substance that acts like a virus... with an "incubation" period of from 5 to 30 years. The end result is MAD COW DISEASE!
HOMOGENIZATION
Large fat molecules cannot get through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. The cream no longer rises... because homogenization breaks up those large molecules into small ones that DO get into the bloodstream! This becomes an expressway for any fat-borne toxins (lead, dioxin's, etc.) into your (otherwise) most protected organs.
CUMULATIVE EFFECTS
How does this impact humans who consume cow's milk and dairy? Obesity (over 50% of Americans and rising), heart disease, cancer, allergies, digestive problems, diabetes, asthma, desensitization to antibiotics, behavioral problems, and the constant ingestion of dioxin's, herbicides, pesticides (and anything else the cow eats that is not good for any critter), that winds up getting stored in HUMAN fat... is not healthy by any measure.
Those who resist believing the truth should understand that MOST of the world's population CANNOT tolerate the lactose in cow's milk. Up to 95% of the black population, around 53% of the Hispanics, etc.) So much for cow's milk being "natures perfect food" for humans! Mother nature knows better.
Common sense question: Where was this massive "milk is a must" before refrigeration, pasteurization and mass transportation? Back when cows gave only 1-4 pounds a day it was quickly made into BUTTER and cheese! Now that those same cows have been tweaked and shot-up with Posilac to produce up to 55 or more pounds of milk per day... almost all year long... it is suddenly (after many thousands of years) a daily "staple". NOT!
POLLUTION
There are around 9.2 million dairy cows in the United states. Each dairy cow ingests around 330 pounds of feed (perhaps 50 pounds) and water (around 280 pounds or 33 gallons) per day. Allowing for the best dairy production of 55 pounds of milk per day (over ten times what mother nature designed the cow to produce) that means that what remains becomes "slurry".
That means around 275 pound of urine and feces per day... per cow, for a daily total of 2.53 BILLION pounds of pollution. Per year... that amounts to around 923 billion pounds of UNTREATED pollution entering our streams, rivers, lakes... and drinking water systems.
Cows are hot-blooded mammals. Like all other mammals they pass gas. Somewhat like elephants their compartmented digestive system is rather inefficient... which leads to the creation of MORE gas. During a Discovery Channel documentary on elephants a parting quip was that the average adult elephant passes enough methane gas per day to run a car about 20 miles.
Cows are not much better. The English New Scientist (page 5 -31.8.96) mentions that cattle produce around 48 kilograms (105 pounds) of methane each per year and that more bubbles out of the animals' manure. Dairy cows eat more because they produce milk. With 9.2 million dairy cows times a minimum of 100 pounds of methane gas per year... that amounts almost a billion pounds of methane gas released into the atmosphere each year. With around 100 million beef cattle... pigs, sheep, and other "factory farmed" animals it should not be difficult to fathom the extent of this problem.
This means that "Beef is a greenhouse-intensive food" and a major cause of global warming (with dairy a significant part of the problem).
Another major point is:
"Milk is a very strong pollutant: it is about 400 times more polluting than untreated sewage. To put it another way, 1,000 gallons of milk has the same polluting potential as the untreated sewage from a town of 7,000 people." Morlais Owen. Chief Scientist for Welsh Water. North Wales Weekly News. 24.3.88.
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Q: What is WHEY?
A: Whey results when the FAT and CASEIN are removed from milk.
In making cheese, the curds become the cheese.
Whey's main components are bovine serum albumin and lactalbumin.
There are other hormones contained in whey.
Q: What happens to the:
59 hormones, scores of allergens herbicides, pesticides, dioxins
up to 52 antibiotics
When made into cheese?
A: Everything gets concentrated.
When made into butter?
A: The allergens get lost: but the dioxin's and
pesticides and antibiotics remain in the fat.
In the digestive system?
A: Steroid hormones survive, as do dioxins and antibiotics.
In homogenized milk, protein hormones survive... depending upon the
gastric pH, some protein hormones in cheese survive, but not all...
eleven steroid hormones survive.
AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Eventually, everything is broken down, but not before the chemical messengers (hormones) "deliver their message."
Each of those hormones and proteins acts differently and has different rates of degradation. BOTTOM LINE... they all survive to a certain degree... and the effects are cumulative.
OTHER HEATH-TRASHING SUBSTANCES IN COW'S MILK
Whey: Blood proteins. Bovine serum lactalbumin has been identified as a trigger for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.
Lactose: Two sugars. Glucose and galactose. Galactose has been indentified as a trigger for glaucoma. There are several columns that cover lactose (covering galactose and galactosemia):
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/090599.txt... Dr. Gordon: Heart Disease
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Lactose is dangerous
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Ben's heart
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Female Cancers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Lactose intolerance
Colostrum (cow's first milk): Loaded with hormones, particularly IGF-I, along with loads of immunizing agents for COW DISEASES.
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QUOTES
"It's not natural for humans to drink cow's milk. Humans milk is for humans. Cow's milk is for calves. You have no more need of cow's milk than you do rats milk, horses milk or elephant's milk. Cow's milk is a high fat fluid exquisitely designed to turn a 65 lb baby calf into a 400 lb cow. That's what cow's milk is for!" --Dr Michael Klaper MD
"I no longer recommend dairy products after the age of 2 years. Other calcium sources offer many advantages that dairy products do not have." --Dr. Benjamin Spock
Soy is a complete protein,you don't need to combine proteins at each meal,you just have to eat a variety throughout the day
carbs don't make you fat.
Milk production is extremely cruel, as is all factory farming. Further, milch cows are pumped full of hormones to promote the overproduction of milk, production at levels that far, far exceed the needs of a calf.
As well, dairy products are actually the WORST way to consume calcium, as excreting the remains of dairy and all other animal products causes your kidneys to have to pull calcium from your bones.
Hindu's do eat dairy products, they don't kill cattle to eat the flesh or to use the hides.
Next time, please get your facts straight BEFORE you ask a question. You won't seem nearly so foolish that way.
Hindus do consume milk and milk products.
hopefully this question asker take the time to read some of the answers, I puke milk when I think about the pus that is in my milk, it is just unhealthy to drink it, and I can't rape a cow out of its milk, DO NOT WANT!!!
I don't drink milk cause it is nasty
Who would have thought that a simple thing like milk would get so many people worked up?
I'm exhausted from having read that encyclopedia entry above; I think I'll get myself a few cookies and a cold glass of you-know-what.
its cruel because the cows are constantly impregnated. your right though, it does hurt them not to be milked. but if they weren't always pregnant to begin with, it wouldn't be a problem. plus they just get slaughtered after they cant give milk anymore. i dont want to support that.
1. It's not natural for a weaned human being to drink the milk of another animal..and not needed.
2. Most dairy farms keep the cows in small places and pump them with hormones and antibiotics...Yummy? I don't think so.
3. Calcium can be found in many other things (dark greens)4.Milk is all sugar and loaded with fat.
Your argument shows that you have don't no research on your own behalf.
I do drink milk but only because my parents won't let me not till I leave home. But it is extremely cruel.
1 many cows are drugged harmfully to produce unnatural amounts of milk
2 millions of bulls are shot just minutes after birth in front of their mothers because they're useless, only a few are spared.
3 the calves are taken away from their mothers and fed processed liquids close to milk as not to waste its mothers on them.
4 the conditions they are kept in are shocking
5 creating so much milk often causes their udders to swell hugely and the cow is unable to support herself and will die a very slow and pain full death.
These are only 5 reasons why it's cruel but there are plenty more, trust me. You have no idea what you're talking about.
I am vegan but I have never said drinking milk is cruel!! I am allergic to milk (Lactose and the proteins) this testing was done in a hospital. Even if I could drink it I wouldn't as the thought of a drinking a bi-product of an animal doesn't appeal to me. Humans are the only animal that after weaning, drinks milk from another species! WHY do people think that because you are vegan you must have extreme views? I am tolerant of other peoples views even if I don't agree, but if I say I am vegan , people jump to the conclusion that I am radical in all my thoughts. Why dump us all in the same pile? As for bones, I have been tested and have strong bone density and my blood tests indicate all my levels are more than average, and better than "normal" person.
Drinking milk isn't cruel. PETA has got a bunch of people brainwashed that animals have more rights than anything else on this planet, and should be left alone. Man wasn't put on this planet to serve animals, animals were put on this planet to serve man. Get over it, and go on with your measly little lives. That last sentence isn't aimed towards the asker of the question, it is aimed at all of you animal rights nuts. Most of you have never been around agriculture, so you get all of your info from PETA, and their info is a bunch of bull. After reading some of the answers, I realize that you are all full of sh*t.
your not going to convince people to drink or eat dairy if they are aginst it..i how ever do agree with you.. and my ceral would taste like crap if i used water
"vegan and proud" pretty much said all there is to be said about drinking milk from a cow.
and don't you dare inslult peta or any other activist group. just because they stand up for somthing and have the gumption to get up and do somthing doesn't mean you have to insult them. "if you don't stand up for somthing, you'll fall for anything."
The third reason is lactose intolerance. ;)
Personal opinons, and for gods sake how many edits do you have to do?! No one is going to read all of that.