The Sour Facts About Milk: What Every Parent Needs To Know

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Did you know that we are the only animal that consumes the milk of another? Doesn’t seem so natural, does it? A large majority of Earth’s population is lactose intolerant for a reason. Milk has been making its way through the stages of truth for a number of years now. What’s worse is that the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) in partnership with the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is currently requesting a modification of the standards for milk and other dairy products. They are petitioning to allow the use of non nutritive sweeteners like aspartame to be added to dairy products.

I recently came across this article that was posted on Mindbodygreen.com, it was written by John Pierre, a fitness and nutrition expert. We don’t usually re-post articles from another website, but I thought this was a well informed, well written and important article that people might be interested in because it is so ever present in many peoples lives . Not to mention Collective Evolution has written multiple articles about this topic ourselves. Hopefully it inspires you to look into it a little more and further your research about milk and dairy products.

Over the past 40 years, the dairy industry has poured billions of dollars into advertising campaigns designed to lure individuals into consuming their products. Their frosted fingers have steadily tightened their steely grip of influence over educational institutions, retirement homes, hospitals, and doctor’s offices permeating magazines, books, journals, and commercials with biased information that promotes their agenda. After years of mind-numbing “mustaches” of manipulation, the public has been led to believe that dairy products are a natural and essential part of the human diet. However, this is far from the truth.

Like all female mammals (including humans) who produce milk for their young, a female cow secretes milk that is intended to nurse her baby calf for about one year. This fatty hormonal secretion (containing over 60 hormones and growth factors) is designed to take her 65 pound newborn calf and turn him into a 700-pound cow in less than one year — quite a feat!

During pregnancy, a cow’s estrogen level skyrockets over 30 times higher than when she’s not carrying a calf. Since today’s factory dairies pump milk from female cows continually to increase profits, higher hormone levels (both naturally occurring and those created by agribusiness) are found in dairy milk, which also happens to be disastrously high in fat; a critical factor further exacerbating increased estrogen levels in humans.

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