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I'm in the NON-dairy camp, if only for small quantities. However, the American diet is very much based on dairy products.
-Lots of food products require milk or cheese.
-Meat from cows
-cottage cheese
-Milk by products
*What consumers have to grasp is the logic of drinking another animals milk, which as PRmoon mentioned, each species lactates specific foods for their young, because the young cannot consume whole food until much larger.
*Mother's milk vs most other animal milks are very, very different. Mother's milk has a LOW protein content, but a HIGH healthy fat contact. Whereas, cow milk has significant water, cholesterol, and protein content. The cow has much more DRAMATIC growth to endure throughout is life.
*The claim to fame the milk is a good source of calcium is WRONG. The body requires equal parts of calcium and magnesium to digest and assimilate calcium. If it does not have mangesium, then only a portion of the calcium is digest, the rest is expelled via urine. So if milk is SOO good, why is the #1 benefit statement, also the reason milk does not work UNLESS drank with other minerals in order to digest and use the calcium. It's already deficient, and we haven't listed other good sources.
*For bulking, the fats are UNHEALTHY fats and bad cholesterols, further worsening your health position. Good fats, as most body builders know, are those Omega 3's, 6's and fish oils, or found in olive oils, avocados, etc. Mono and poly unstaturated fats. None of THESE fats are in milk, so you're drinking a substance of which the nutrient content does not benefit you.
*Regarding protein, per 8oz of milk, it's relatively low, when compared calorically to eggs, chicken breast, whey protein, fish, lamb, etc. To get 30+ grams, you'd be drinking 1/2 a gallon, of which you'd gain significant calories, digest many pesticides, growth hormones, pus (white blood cells), blood of the cow, and pretty much anything else it has eaten, consumed, or expelled into its udders.
*MOST of the milk is water; about 86%+ is water, the other pieces are fats, protein, and carbs, and minerals that can't be digest by humans.
*When milk was pure, from cows only producting 2000 gallons per year, naturally on farms, outside, milked by farmers, and drank that day, IT might have been ok to consume, since families would only have 1 serving with a meal, in which magnesium would be present. Again, food stuffs were in smaller rations. We didn't have the large supermarkets and wal-marts, nor did we hold food for severals. We'd buy it then, and eat it then.
But now, most milk is kept 7 days or more, and once in the fridge, the bacteria content doubles every 20 minutes, until its totally gone bad. This is why if you go on vaca, or open it, and drink it sparingly, the milk goes bad.
*Studies confirm also, that ALL forms of milk has various components of what a mother expells, not just cows. Studies show, women expell blood, pus, hormones, poison, toxins, and pretty much anything else from her environment INTO the breast milk. Hence, this is WHY it's imperative for a woman to be healthy throughout her period of pregnancy, otherwise her good and bad habits show in the womb, and afterwards via her breast milk.
Today, we have a wide variety of choices, but these choices are very limited because people don't REALLY know what to consume in order to achieve their individual goals. We're a time starved society, so people don't MAKE or GROW their own food. They want fast, cheap, now, and quick, and if possible, nutritious. However, they CAN and WILL leave out nutrition.
Milk is cheap.
We were raised on breast milk, then told to drink regular milk, since it has that 'healthy' motherly quality.
Product placement is high.
It's in a lot recipes, desserts, coffee, meals, etc, so it's hard to avoid.
*Just because you did it for awhile, or the mass media still pumps it DOES NOT mean it's right. In fact, the MAJORITY of Americans contract cancer, diabetes, heart problems, osteoprosis, etc, so by one's admission, if that's THE majority of people taking, I'd go the route of whoever IS NOT in that majority.
The logic that THE PUBLIC does it, or the NOBODY knows about it, only puts to the inability to think for oneself and discern credible facts, mass stupidity, ignorance, and a lack of responsibility.
A glass here and there, or a pizza MIGHT not kill you, but it sure won't AID in your quality of life DOWN the road, and milk doesn't provide a lot benefit to consuming it NOW that it's worth consuming over your lifetime. This isn't the "you gotta die someway" idea that smokers position, since I've had 3 relatives die of tobacco related deaths, and ALL of them would have preferred NOT going that way, given how painfull, long-lasting, and costly it was. But, to each his own.
I'm here for the neophyte, who has no knowledge of the waste that milk is today, how it doesn't benefit your health now, and will over time, diminish your health.
If anything, drink breast milk straight from the tits of a how prego milf, and try that for a few sips. Otherwise, why bother with an animal that's more jacked with hormones and steroids than all bodybuilders the Planet has ever seen, eats its feces, lives in squalor, does not consume plants as it once did. Blah blah blah.
Also, a starting point for the concise website is.
www.notmilk.com
Unlike the milk industry, such sites do NOT have an investment in their message, only the freeing of 1 more person from the matrix of deceit that appears to be the human experience.
A-Unit
