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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (91737)	12/19/2004 11:42:52 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Cosmicforce, first could you tell me what "lectin" is? You lost me there. I don't really disagree with your idea that a diet that is extremely varied is probably the healthiest one. Just based on the idea that it is what you really like the best that will kill you (because you will overindulge in it), a lot of different foods all mixed up makes sense. I do think that several thousand years of tofu and other soy products is probably enough time to make some basic conclusions about its health advantages and risks. I think I do disagree with you on the whole milk thing. We are not drinking milk occasionally--our dairy boards promote the healthiness of drinking two to three servings of it every day. And it is not the same high quality of milk as when individuals owned their own and drank it almost immediately. Now I believe there is unethical marketing of milk almost on the level of Monsanto (which coincidentally is involved in this milk scandal). Babies should drink mother's milk, and there is no need at all for humans to drink cows' milk. Milk producers sell the idea based on our need for calcium, but Americans have a HUGE rate of hip fractures, etc. There is a scientific school of thought that the calcium in milk is actually dangerous (and I'll deal with that later). But right now--what about the PUS in milk? And the antibiotics? I don't think it's a good idea to drink all that stuff: (if you click on the link, you will see a picture) (if you click on the link, you will also see a map showing how much pus is in the milk in your state) This cow’s udder is swollen and distended—a symptom of mastitis. Have some … pus with your cookies? If you down a glass of cow’s milk, you will. It may be white, but researchers say that every cupful contains somatic cells, i.e., pus. The dairy industry knows that there is a problem with pus in milk. Accordingly, it has developed a system known as the “somatic cell count” to measure the amount of pus in milk. The somatic cell count is the standard used to gauge milk quality. The higher the somatic cell count, the more pus in the milk. Any milk with a somatic cell count of higher than 200 million per liter should not enter the human food supply, according to the dairy industry. Therefore, anyone living in a state where the somatic cell count is higher than 200 million shouldn’t be drinking milk. There’s only one problem—every state but Hawaii is producing milk with pus levels so high that it shouldn’t enter the human food supply! At the bottom of this page, you can see how high the pus levels in your state’s milk are. Even the national average, at 322 million, is well above the industry’s limit. One culprit causing the hundreds of millions of pus cells in every liter of milk may be “bovine growth hormone,” the Monsanto chemical company’s growth hormone marketed as Posilac. Posilac is now widely used by dairy farmers to increase the amount of milk that their already overburdened cows produce. Because cows are not built to produce this much milk, they are prone to a painful udder infection called mastitis. When they are milked, pus and bacteria from the infection flow right along with the milk. The journal Nature reported that Posilac increases somatic cells—pus—in the milk by a whopping 19 percent! Researchers estimate that an ordinary glass of milk contains between one and seven drops of pus. This isn’t just disgusting—it can also be dangerous. Pus can contain paratuberculosis bacteria, which are believed to cause Crohn’s disease in human beings. Dairy farmers try to control the rampant mastitis with large doses of antibiotics—but these antibiotics also wind up in the milk. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of too many antibiotics, which researchers believe can inhibit the development of the immune system. Dairy farmers don’t tell consumers that every glass of milk is contaminated with pus, bacteria, and perhaps with paratuberculosis. The only way to avoid drinking pus is to avoid cow’s milk. PETA is calling on the USDA to lower the legal limit of allowable pus cells in milk to the limit used by the rest of the industrialized world. Presently, our limit is nearly twice that. Seventeen states are producing milk that would be illegal to sell in Europe! milksucks.com