We've all heard, "milk to drink;. It's a good body," From the food triangle High School of Health Sciences, the milk is pushed without a doubt. "The milk has a good body" is a myth orchestrated. While the milk is considered a healthy beverage at the turn of the 20 century, progress in hormones draconian institutional mechanized dairy farms and today, these staple perceived changed. With U.S. consumption of cow's milk about 7 billion gallons a year, we are able toafford to turn our eyes to the dangers hidden beneath the milky white trim?
To assist in the early 1980 over the production of milk of our debt due to competition of soda and bottled water, reducing consumption and inflated the price controls the government. In an attempt to correct the excess, the U.S. government has the "Milk Production Stabilization Act of 1983", which requires producers of milk for a national campaign to teach, and help promote the consumption of milk. In 1990, theUnited States Government passed "The Law Fluid Milk," the further increase of the milk-marketing campaign to about $ 200 million a year. The campaign's most successful general of the milk, and what is perhaps the best campaign ever, the "Got Milk?" Campaign by Jeff Manning from the advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners created in 1993. The campaign was originally intended for the California market, but quickly went national, international, and also won the 1994 Cleo "Best in Show" for theAdvertisement.
According to the International Dairy Foods Association, the current U.S. dairy market estimated at $ 70000000000 dollars a year is his. In an effort to protect this market, most commercial milk is pasteurized to kill harmful bacteria such as Campylobacter, E. Coli, Salmonella and Listeria. The heating process of pasteurization and cooling, which first developed by Louis Pasteur in 1864, would kill most organisms responsible for diseases such as listeriosis,Typhoid, tuberculosis, diphtheria and brucellosis. However, there is great potential for cross contamination from unsanitary production and packing facilities.
Even in the U.S. commercial pasteurization of milk or contains dangerous pollutants. In 1937, bovine growth hormone has been recognized as an agent to increase the production of cow's milk. In 1993, the FDA has approved the sale of synthetic bovine growth hormone, rBST (aka rBGH) to increase milk production by 10% to 15%. United StatesDairy Association and the U.S. authorities claim that cows injected with rBST produce milk safer. While the independent tests were not conclusive, it is generally assumed that rBST can reduce the risk of mastitis in cows of problems and foot and some types of cancer in humans to increase. Insightful many countries, including Canada, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand have banned the sale of rBST.
In addition, Dean Foods, Kroger (parent company of King Soopers), Kirkland(Safeway's parent company), Lucerne, have Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Costco and even Starbucks to sell rBST milk sold. In an attempt to flood the resistance to rBST, Monsanto, the producer of rBST and rBGH has happened at this point, lobbying and reduces the labeling of dairy products with the synthetic hormone, making it impossible for consumers to distinguish between rBST dairy or non-rBST milk.
According to the USDA, dairy farms todaymust use antibiotics to protect their herds of mastitis and lameness. The USDA list of various antibiotics used to treat dairy cows are aminocyclitol, aminoglycosides, beta-lactam Noncephalosporin, cephalosporin, Florfenical, lincosamides, macrolides, tetracyclines and Sulfanamide. Regardless of a healthy dairy cows, the cow is fed antibiotics. While the FDA claims that traces of antibiotics in milk to an acceptable level, opponents fear that this practiceIncreasing antibiotic resistance and lead to increase in human allergic reactions. With regard to dioxins, a research project on the 2003 USDA polychlorinated dioxins, furans and biphenynls, reported that these toxic pollutants are concentrated in animal products and are eventually consumed by humans. The study found that dairy cows fed contaminated feed 30% of dioxins in milk excreted undigested.
Milk can be contaminated with a variety of infectious environmentParatuberculosis H7, Listeria monocytogenes, Mycobacterium avium subspecies, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus and Yersinia enterocolitica: microbes, including Bacillus cereus, Brucella, Campylobacter jejuni, Coxiella burnetii, E. While pasteurization kills 0157 with most of these microbes, cross-contamination, process, packaging is limited, and can contaminate the terrible conditions of dairy milk production in general.
It 'clear, our idealistic notions of fat happyThe cows in the rolling hills of tall grass, has been shaken by the appalling living conditions and hygiene conditions on the majority of dairy farms. Similar products of meat or poultry, we prefer this well-packaged foods, without bothering to acquire their origin. The contaminated milk Milk is the basis of many foods such as milk powder, butter, ice cream, cheese, yogurt and many artifacts from the oven. An important point that people tend to overlook is the fact that people are the onlyOther types of consumption such as "milk and we are the only species that consumes milk beyond infancy. Our desire delusional for milk is not only unnatural, it is dangerous.
