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Despite its pure,innocent, and creamy exterior, milk has a much darker sideand one that the dairy industry doesn’t want you finding out about.
Milk is much morethan just a drink, it is a cultural phenomenon that can be traced backthousands of years, but despite all the research proving milk to bedetrimental to both our own lives and the lives of the cows, the milk mythsstill ring loud and clear.
Like it or not, milkis not the best source of calcium. It may be hard to believe but thecalcium contained in cow’s milk is barely absorbable to the human body.
Thankfully, amilk-free diet won’t leave you deprived of calcium. The most calcium-richfoods on the planet comes from plants, especially leafy greens such askale, spinach, and broccoli.
Much along the samelines as we need cow’s milk to get calcium, we are also told that cow’s milk ishow we get nice, strong, and healthy bones. Unfortunately, this couldn’t befurther from the truth. In fact, this ridiculous myth is so dangerous that Ican’t believe marketers are allowed to get away with it.
Research has proventhat milk actuallydepletes calcium from our bones and increases fracture risk, which is whythe countries with the highest rate of osteoporosis are the ones where peopledrink the most milk!
No amount of cutecelebrities sporting milk moustaches can hide from the ugly side of the dairyindustry. Calves are taken away from their mothers within hours of being bornwhere they are fed milk substitutes and often sold as veal calves afterspending months chained at the neck unable to walk, stretch their legs, andeven turn around.
Mother cows are alsoforced to endure needless suffering and cruelty. The stress caused by poorconditions on factory farms leads to lameness, disease, and reproductiveproblems rendering them useless at just 4-5 years old (their natural lifespanis 25 years) at which time they are sent to slaughter.
For some reason, thewhole world is walking around under the illusion that cows need to be milkedotherwise their udders will explode, in other words by milking them we areactually doing them a favor. This myth is a downright lie.
Cows only producemilk to feed their young. If they don’t have babies, they don’t make milk.Simple. To keep cows lactating, farmers impregnate them through artificial inseminationonce a year. This traumatic process is carried out by constraining cows in whatis known by the industry as a “rape rack.”
No one can disputethat cow’s milk is an excellent food source…for calves. This incredible food isessential to baby calves in their first few months of life, but once weanedthey will never drink milk again, and that’s the same for every mammalianspecies on the planet. Which is why it makes no sense for us humans to bedrinking it.
As if that’s notreason enough, cow’s milk contains an average of three times the amount ofprotein than human milk, contributing to a variety of illness and disease. Thatmight be the incentive you need to help you ditch the dairy.
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