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Got School Milk?
With fondness, I can remember my early elementary school days and the pride of being “milk monitor”, which meant I got to go to the cafeteria and pick up the small cartons of milk my classmates and I would enjoy during lunchtime. Seems pretty innocent and wholesome, but, unfortunately, most school milk isn’t.
It is probable that the majority of milk consumed by students in cafeterias today contains the artificial growth hormone rBGH. This hormone is commonly injected into cows in order to increase milk production. Numerous studies have been conducted and the evidence that levels of rGBH in humans have a direct link to various forms of cancers, including prostate and breast cancer, is mounting.
For the poor cows, the use of rGBH increases the painful breast infection mastitis due to increased milk production. Consequently, they’re given antibiotics, which can also be passed along thru the milk to the consumer.
If you want your child to consume milk, it’s wisest to go the organic route. Serve it to your child at home or in a reusable bottle that is kept cold. But for the love of all our children, let’s give our schools the opportunity to purchase and distribute rGBH free and organic milk. As Ann Cooper, a chef and school food advocate with Lunch Lessons LLC Food Family Farming Foundation, stated: “Legislation must be put into effect that eliminates artificial hormones and antibiotics from all milk served in school cafeterias all across the country - our children’s health depends upon this.” Contact your Congressional representative, asking her or him to make it easier for children to access milk free of artificial hormones.
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I think it's better they drink milk than sodas.
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Contrary to years of propaganda by the meat and dairy industries humans are NOT sacrificing their health by not eating dead things and milk from animals. Adolph Hitler once said "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth". When children grow up on tv and other advertising propaganda they come to believe it as truth. Humans do not need animal products to be healthy, it is the biggest lie we have ever been fed. No matter how they break it down with false 'science' and brainwashed (and paid) 'nutritionists', it is still a lie. We are far healthier on a natural plant based diet. Has anyone tried making their own cashew or almond milk for example? It is delicious. There are so many far healthier and better tasting alternatives to stealing milk from calves then eating their dead bodies. We are no longer cave men, we are an evolved human species living in the 21st century. When we hear all the meat and dairy spin it always comes from those with a vested interest in people consuming it.
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You can still have milk from cows and make sure the cows are living a humane existence. Know where you're buying from! I understand the concern for animals, but vegans must understand they are sacrificing their own health for the animals. That's ok - just be aware of that. Our bodies need whole fats to be in full health (more than what is found in an avocodo). For more information, check out the book "Eat, Live, and Be Healthy" by Paul Chek or visit WestonAPrice.org or the cookbook "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon.
Eat things ethically and in their raw states, as we did before the country decided to process everything and ruin our health.
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Yes Margarita, good job with the soy milk comment. American media and marketing have done a remarkable job promoting soy milk and telling the public that pasteurization is good for us. People really believe it! The "Milk Does a Body Good" was a great promoter of pasteurized milk and soy milk, well, don't get me started.
Please don't give your kids processed milk (this includes pasteurized - which IS processed milk void of many nutrients). Raw milk from a farm where cows are treated humanely and graze on pastures as they're meant to is best! If you can't give them raw milk, at least opt for whole milk from an organic, local farmer!
For a couple of interesting articles, for those seeking to continue research on the subject, see here:
http://www.realmilk.com/propaganda.html
and this:
http://fourfoldhealing.com/2009/03/10/march-2009-newsletter/ (scroll down until you see the devil in milk title).
For those who think it's as simple as milk = allergies, cow's milk = inhumane, pasteurized = safe, hormone-free = healthy, you are grossly undersimplifying things. Look for words like "Free Range Organic" and make sure there's no unfermented soy in your milk (fermented soy is good for you and is found in unpasteurized soy sauce, miso, etc., but not milk!)
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For milk free from rBGH buy it at Kwik-Trip; they are located in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa!!!!
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Cows milk also produces mucus. That's why you see toddlers with constantly runny noses, they're usually the ones who are given cows milk by misinformed mothers. Check out http://www.notmilk.com/
No other species of animal drinks milk after it is weaned. Milk is for babies and the only milk they should drink is milk from their own species. Unless it's a life or death situation when for example kittens lose their mother and a female dog can feed them etc.
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Mark,
Wholeheartedly agree with all of your comments, ESPECIALLY the one about cows not being here FOR man nor being MADE by them. Goodness, what animal is really here FOR us? What a RIDICULOUS statement by the previous commenter; do people REALLY think things like that??
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The hormones are not the problem, casein is. Casein is the main protein in milk. In study after study it has been shown to turn on cancer cells. Also, western countries consume the largest amounts of milk, yet have the highest rates of osteoperosis which is almost absent in eastern countries that consume little to no milk. That's because animal proteins, including milk cause the body to leach calcium from itself. If you're really trying to stay healthy, stay away from milk. A great book to check out is "The China Study" by T Joseph Campbell. Also, you can research the findings yourself on The New England Journal of Medicine's web site.
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I tend to look for milk from whatever the local dairy (yes, it is big dairy, but in smaller forms) that states that their farmers pledge to use no hormones (Wawa, Farmland, Over the Moon, etc). They are cheaper than organic, and still have no hormones, Alas, the cows are probably not all grass, fed, etc, as organic, but it's a compromise I can live with.
Something to consider with soy milk: it mimics estrogen. Young developing boys and women with estrogen cancers (such as breast cancer) should avoid too much, if any, soy.
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