Dr Billy Health

THE ‘WHOLESOME’ PROTEIN MYTH:
87% of milk is water. That makes for some VERY expensive water. Broken down into its basic groups… WHOLE MILK is: WATER (87%), FAT(3.7%), CARBOHYDRATE / LACTOSE (4.9%), FIBER (0%), CASEIN AND OTHER PROTEIN (3.5) (note: that is 3.7% “milkfat” which includes the 87% water.)

80% of the protein in milk is casein. Casein is a powerful binder… a polymer used to make plastics. It is an adhesive that is better used to affix labels to mayonnaise jars then eat or drink. It is sneaked into thousands of processed foods as a binder… It appears on the label as “Whatever” caseinate. Casein is a powerful allergen… it activates histamine which creates lots of mucus.

It’s not just about gobs of mucus, indeed, cows’ milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed, to say nothing of its other negative effects on health.

Sound science clearly demonstrates that: animal protein, when consumed in excess of protein requirements, is one of the most toxic nutrients of all. Risk for disease goes up dramatically when even a little animal protein is added to the diet.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell states: “casein as an animal protein promotes cancer, in spades. [ ] casein is the most relevant chemical carcinogen ever discovered”.

T. Colin Campbell, is Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University

Many studies demonstrate that diets high in protein (Especially Animal Protein) lower bone density and increase rick of fracture.

CALCIUM, MILK AND BONE DENSITY:
Fact: Around the world, the higher the dairy intake, the higher the osteoporosis rates. Osteoporosis is not a calcium deficiency disease! Bone is composed of at least a dozen minerals, going ape over calcium actually increases the risk and severity of osteoporosis.
Think you’re absorbing usable calcium from cow’s milk? Nutritionists consider the optimum ratio (For calcium absorption) of Calcium to Magnesium to be 1:2. The ratio in milk at 10:1is 20 times to the negative, and would seem to be one of the reasons that; the more milk people drink /eat, the ‘Swiss- cheesy-er’ their bones become. So, as a bone-density promoting agent, cows’ milk fails profoundly when used by humans. Unabsorbed (Cellular- ly) calcium does cause great harm however, accumulating as micro-gravel in joints and becoming part of the cross-linkage ‘plaster’ which is so good at clogging arteries.

BACTERIA:
Cow’s milk is allowed to have feces in it and always does. This is one of the sources of bacteria that milk drinkers drink. Milk is typically pasteurized for only 15 seconds at 162 degrees Fahrenheit. To sanitize water we are told to boil it (190-212 degrees F) for 20 minutes. Curious.
Keep in mind that at room temperature the number of bacteria in milk DOUBLE around every 20 minutes. As you know, milk turns rotten (more rotten) very quickly. While pasteurization lowers the bacterial count (Good bugs and bad bugs) it totally wipes out all the enzymes which would help to digest the milky mess.

PUS:
ONE cubic centimeter (cc) of commercial cow’s milk is allowed to have up to 750,000 somatic cells (”PUS” cells) and 20,000 live bacteria before it is kept off the market.
That amounts to a whopping 20 million live (And rapidly replicating) squiggly bacteria and up to 750 MILLION pus cells per liter / quart.

Or:
1 cup = 236.5882cc 177,441,150 pus cells and 4,731,600 bacteria.

Or:
24 oz (3 glasses) (the “recommended” daily intake) = 532,323,450 pus cells and 14,220,000 bacteria The EU and the Canadians allow for a ‘tangy’ 400,000,000 pus cells per liter.

Based on allowable (And common) counts of white blood cells and bacteria, that famous movie, recording or sports star in the commercials and magazine adds is wearing a white mustache containing 300,000 white blood cells and 25,000 bacteria.

CHOLESTEROL:
The cholesterol content of those three glasses of milk is equal to what one would get from 53 slices of bacon. 53 SLICES OF BACON!

The milk of each of the over 4,700 mammals on earth is formulated specifically for each species… In the milk that humans usually drink there are special lactoferrins and immunoglobulins (cow specific immunizing compounds) that in humans serve as allergens.

LACTOSE:
MOST of the world’s human population CANNOT tolerate the lactose in cow’s milk.
This includes up to 95% of the black population, around 55% of Hispanics, and most of the Anglos that I know.

LEUKEMIA:
According to the trade publication, ‘Hoards Dairyman’ (Volume 147, number 4)… 89% of America’s dairy herds have the leukemia virus.

MAD COW DISEASE:
There are also prions (pronounced prahy-on) in the milk and meat. This is a microscopic proteinaceous particle, likened to viruses and viroids and linked to Mad Cow Disease… with an “incubation” period of from 5 to 30 years. The end result (In homogenized milk) is MAD COW DISEASE! HOMOGENIZATION. Large fat molecules cannot get through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream… But because homogenization breaks up those large molecules into small ones that DO get into the bloodstream, this becomes an expressway for any fat-borne infectious agents and toxins (lead, dioxin’s, etc.) into your (otherwise) most protected organs.

A TRILLION POUNDS OF UNTREATED WASTE:
There are around 10 million dairy cows in the United States. Each dairy cow ingests 40- 50 pounds of feed and around 280 pounds or 33 gallons of water per day. Allowing for the best dairy production of 55 pounds of milk per day (over ten times what Mother Nature designed the cow to produce) we can see that the balance becomes “slurry”, or Poop and Pee Tea.
That means around 275 pounds of urine and feces per day… per cow, for a daily total of 2.75 BILLION pounds of ‘biologically active’ pollution. Per year… that amounts to ONE TRILLION pounds of UNTREATED pollution entering our streams, rivers, lakes… and drinking water systems… Entering us, even those who don’t drink milk.

10,000,000 dairy cows make a big mess:

2,750,000,000 lb. output (Poop n’ Pee Tea) per day
X 365
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1,003,750,000,000 (Over ONE TRILLION POUNDS OF ‘SICK COW POOP N’ PEE TEA.) That’s just the U.S.’s contribution.

Dare to look at ‘Active Numbers’…

Congress recently announced that they will be giving an additional $5 billion in subsidies to dairy farmers. Thanks guys.

These stats are a few years old. We can assume (as history shows) that the numbers get worse every year:
The Dairy Industry is really big business, with sales of over $11 billion for milk and $16 billion for cheese annually in the USA alone.
Dairy Management Inc., whose purpose is to build demand for dairy products on behalf of America’s 80,000-plus dairy producers released the Dairy Check-off 2003 Unified Marketing Plan (UMP) with a budget of $165.7 million. … To protect and enhance consumer confidence in dairy products and the dairy industry.
A significant portion of the money from the 2003 Unified Marketing Plan is specifically targeted to children ages 6 to 12 and their mothers. The goal is “to guide school-age children to become life-long consumers of dairy products, 2003 activities targeted students, parents, educators and school foodservice professionals.” (Similar words and intentions have been attributed to the tobacco industry.) All this marketing is working, too: annual fluid milk consumption among kids 6 to 12 increased to 28 gallons per capita, the highest level in 10 years. Children under 18 drink /eat 46% of the milk consumed in the USA. This includes all dairy products that are made from milk: non-fat milk, low-fat milk, buttermilk, cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream, whey, kefir, and butter. All of them share a similar nutritional profile (plus or minus the fat, protein, and sugar), and as a result, all of them contribute to a wide range of health problems and supply various dangerous agents: E. coli, AIDS and Leukemia Viruses… Lots of drugs.

Dairy products were the foods most often recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from the period October 1, 1993 through September 30, 1998 because of contamination with infectious agents, mostly bacteria. They are commonly tainted with disease-causing bacteria, such as salmonella, staphylococci, listeria, deadly E. coli O1573 and Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (thought to be one of the agents causing Crohn’s disease; a form of life-threatening chronic colitis), as well as viruses known to cause lymphoma and leukemia-like diseases, and immune deficiency in cattle.

AIDS and Leukemia Viruses:
Dairy cattle are infected with bovine immunodeficiency viruses (BIV) and bovine leukemia viruses (BLV), worldwide. (Bovine immunodeficiency viruses can also be properly referred to as bovine AIDS viruses.)

In the United States, results show an average 40% of beef herds and 64% of dairy herds are infected with BIV. In Canada the infection rate is 70% and in Argentina the rate is 84% for BLV. Herds infected with the BIV are usually infected with the leukemia virus (BLV) as well.
Both viruses can cross species lines thus infecting other animals, like sheep, goats, and chimpanzees and humans, who can then the develop disease. Nationwide and worldwide, leukemia is more common in the higher dairy consuming populations. An increased incidence of leukemia has been found among dairy farmers in multiple studies. BIV infection has been reported in at least one person. The bovine leukemia virus has been classified in the same group as the Human T-cell Leukemia/Lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), which is known to cause leukemia and lymphomas in humans (Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma). BIV is structurally and genetically closely related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type-1 (the virus causing human AIDS). Pasteurization kills many types of microorganisms, but it is by no means foolproof.

KOSHER:
Is cow’s milk and dairy “Kosher”? Consider this: “D-3 always is derived from an animal”. The sunlight reaction that converts 7dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D-3 is a bio-chemical reaction that occurs in the skin within specific cells “The provitamin known as 7-dehydrocholesterol is extracted and isolated from the skins of mammals and purified.” (Marian Herbert of the Vitamin D Workshop U of C) Vitamin D-3 can come from four different sources: Pig skin, sheep skin, raw fish liver, and pig brains. Most of the time, Vitamin D3 is extracted from pig skin and sold to dairy processors. Short answer to “is milk kosher” – NO.

OTHER ‘STUFF’:
Fat and cholesterol. Lots of it. Per the dairy influenced USDA “food pyramid”, all milk, dairy and meats should represent no more than 8% of the diet. Statistically, by volume of sales in a nation of 300 million Americans, it works out to almost 40% of the diet just for MILK AND DAIRY. That’s without the meat.

LACTALBUMIN:
The protein lactalbumin has been identified as a key factor in diabetes (and a very good reason for NOT giving cow’s milk to infants).

CROHN’S DISEASE:
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a bovine disease called “Johne’s.” Cows diagnosed with Johne’s Disease have diarrhea, and heavy fecal shedding of bacteria. This bacterium becomes cultured in milk, and is NOT destroyed by pasteurization. Sometimes the milk-borne bacteria will begin to grow in the human host, and the results are irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s Disease.

Otitis Media (infection of the middle ear):
More than ten million children a year suffer from ear infections in the United States.
The eustachian tube becomes clogged with mucus and the pressure in the ear rises and the ear becomes infected.
Otitis Media (infection of the middle ear) is the most frequent diagnosis recorded for children who visit physicians for illness. Two out of three children under the age of 3 experience this painful, often damaging malady… Most children in the U.S. are fed cow’s milk. An inner ear infection is the most common cause of hearing loss in children. Far too many kids end up with plastic ear tubes. The surgical procedure for placing tubes in the ears has become one of the most commonly performed operations of any kind. In the 90s a million or more children each year underwent surgery to have “ventilation” tubes inserted in one or both ears.

Michael Klaper, M.D., explains how the proteins found in Cow’s milk create a health hazard. He writes, “A common reaction to such an assault by a foreign [bovine] protein in our immune systems is an outpouring of mucus from the nasal and throat membranes. The resulting mucus flow can create chronic runny nose, persistent sore throats, hoarseness, bronchitis, and the recurrent ear infections that plague so many children.”
A Georgetown University study showed that up to 86 percent of ear infections improved when children stopped drinking cow’s milk and other allergens.

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS:
How does all this impact humans who consume cow’s milk and dairy?

Obesity (more than 34 percent of Americans are obese 33 percent are overweight, and about 6 percent are “extremely” obese. And all the numbers are rising), heart disease, cancer, allergies, digestive problems, diabetes, asthma, desensitization to antibiotics, behavioral problems, and the constant ingestion of dioxin’s, herbicides, pesticides (and all other poisons that a cow eats or is exposed to), that winds up getting stored in HUMAN fat… is not healthy by any measure. One reason people get fat (Fatter) is because the body needs more and more storage media to pack-away the never ending input of funky stuff taken in through poor diet. Fat is a high-capacity storage media.

So much for cow’s milk being “nature’s perfect food” for humans! Mother Nature knows better and someone who honestly thinks about just what milk is, must get it as well.
See: Milk, and the many ill conditions it causes

COMMON QUESTIONS:
Where was this massive “milk is a must” before refrigeration, pasteurization and mass transportation? Back when cows gave only 1-4 pounds a day it was quickly made into BUTTER and cheese! Now that cows have been tweaked and shot-up with Posilac to produce up to 55 or more pounds of milk per day… almost all year long… it is suddenly (after many thousands of years) a daily “staple” for those of us who eat according to diabolical advertising and corporate programming… And still, most of the world’s people don’t use the stuff, you know, people who never deal with osteoporosis, people who are not inundated with ‘dairy counsel’ advertising and where the schools’ nutrition-educational material is not provided by meat and dairy interests.

MORE POLLUTION:
Cows are hot-blooded mammals. Like all other mammals they produce methane gas. The English New Scientist (page 5 -31.8.96) mentions that cattle produce around 48 kilograms (110 pounds) of methane each per year and that much more bubbles out of the animals’ manure. Dairy cows eat more because they produce milk. Ten million dairy cows, times a minimum of 100 pounds of methane gas per year… that amounts to about a billion pounds of methane gas released into the atmosphere each year, just in the U.S. With around 100 million beef cattle… pigs, sheep, and other “factory farmed” animals it should not be difficult to fathom the extent of this problem. This means that “Beef / MILK is a greenhouse-intensive food” and a major cause of climate change (with dairy a significant part of that problem).

ANOTHER MAJOR POINT IS:
Milk itself is a very potent pollutant: it is about 400 times more polluting than untreated sewage. To put it another way, 1,000 gallons of milk has the same polluting potential as the untreated sewage from a town of 7,000 people.” Morlais Owen. Chief Scientist for Welsh Water. North Wales Weekly News. 24.3.88.

SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED:
Q: What is WHEY?
A: Whey results when the FAT and CASEIN are removed from milk. In making cheese, the curds become the cheese. Whey’s main components are bovine serum albumin and lactalbumin. There are other hormones contained in whey.

Q: What happens to the: 59 hormones, scores of allergens herbicides, pesticides, dioxins up to 52 antibiotics when made into cheese?
A: Everything gets concentrated.
When made into butter?
A: The allergens get lost: but the dioxin and pesticides and antibiotics remain in the fat.
In the digestive system?
A: Steroid hormones survive, as do dioxin and antibiotics.
In homogenized milk, protein hormones survive… depending upon the gastric pH, some protein hormones in cheese survive, but not all… But at least eleven steroid hormones survive.

AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Eventually, everything is broken down, but not before the chemical messengers (hormones) “deliver their message.” Each of those hormones and proteins acts differently and has different rates of degradation. BOTTOM LINE… they all survive to a certain degree… and the effects are cumulative.

OTHER HEATH-TRASHING SUBSTANCES IN COW’S MILK:
Whey: Blood proteins. Bovine serum lactalbumin has been identified as a trigger for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Lactose: Two sugars. Glucose and galactose. Galactose has been identified as a trigger for glaucoma. …

T. Time:
According to a report released by the ‘National Association
for Continence’, which studies bathroom behavior, the average
American spends 55 minutes per day sitting on the toilet. This is the ‘average’ not the worst.

Eschewing meat and dairy, which provide ZERO fiber, helps produce an efficient elimination system allowing some people to spend only about three minutes per day tending to the same chore. They’ve got about six hours more free time each week, and three hundred free hours per year.

Eighty percent of milk protein is casein, the major mucous producer.
Casein from cow’s milk is a foreign protein. When you eat this antigen, your body’s immune system manufactures an antibody. The antibody is histamine. As a result of histamine production, you produce mucus, and lots of it.

Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on your pasta and ten hours later, you’ll have produced enough mucous to fill the empty quart container of Ben & Jerry’s Salmonella Vanilla. Most Americans continuously eat one form or another of dairy products. The average American eats the equivalent of 30 ounces per day from this food group (Many children, and ladies trying to protect their skeletal density, consume much more). For many of them, ‘unproductive’
bowel movements are a way of life, and they don’t know what it is like to be regular.

A diet style which supports efficient bathroom experiences profits a person with 15 - 20,000 extra productive hours over the average American’s lifetime.

Dairy cows must give birth to continue producing milk, but male dairy calves are of little or no value to the dairy operation.
Two types of veal are recognized by the USDA: bob veal, produced from calves slaughtered at up to three weeks of age, and special-fed veal, from calves slaughtered around 16-weeks. These little guys would live 25 years if left to nature. Those who live till 16 weeks weigh up to 450 pounds but are still held captive and totally immobile in their life-long cage measuring about two feet by five and a half feet. I would like to see an average weight human spend one day in such ‘accommodations’, and it would seem only empathetically fitting that a milk drinking / veal eating person would spend some time ‘getting-a-feel’ for where his milkshake and cutlet come from.

Ouch!
Because so little attention is given to the welfare of the cows, 100% of them are [miss] treated inhumanely and an estimated 200,000 per year become so sick they’re unable to walk or even stand. Their meat must still be harvested. Profit, Profit, Profit. Some is eaten by humans, some is fed back to the cows and beef steers and some becomes chicken feed… Some is cooked, compressed and ends up in BABY FOOD. Baby food for human babies. How nice, and let’s wash that down with a bottle of nice room temperature milk, what do you say junior.

And…

What the ‘Milk Pushers’ were up to fifty years ago:
The front cover of the June 25, 1959 issue of Hoard’s has an imprinted map of the United States announcing “June is Dairy Month.”
This milk promotion program has been going on for a long time!

While America was being conned by milk ads, what truths were dairy insiders reading?

Opening the front cover of the June 25, 1959 issue,
the reader found a full page ad for:

“The NEW Teramycin for mastitis” treatment.

The ad copy reveals that the NEW Pfizer drug controls ten or more kinds of mastitis germs causing infections.
Infections? Germs?
If only Americans knew what was going on with those udders back in 1959. Five decades later, most milk consumers are still in the dark. In 2009, the cost of mastitis control per cow now exceeds $200 per year.
That’s over $2 billion dollars of drugs in their bodies and yours (If you partake.)

The inside rear cover of the 1959 issue of Hoard’s contains a full page ad for
what’s marketed as a “hidden drug treatment,” American Cyanamid’s Aureomycin, an antibiotic that was once placed in animal feed.
The ad copy lets dairymen know:

“Grass alone [their natural diet] can’t give your cows all the food values they need for sustained high production. When you’re feeding cows…
an effective antibiotic in the ration becomes more urgent.”

Cows [and the people who eat and drink them] have been fed antibiotics for generations, and few people outside of the industry knew.
Little boys and girls were fed these same antibiotics, day after day. Ever wonder why we had such a runaway Candida (Infective yeast / fungus) epidemic in the eighties, and why the world is now plagued with antibiotic-resistant super-bugs?

Here’s an appropriate June quote by which dairy farmers can celebrate their special month. The following appeared ten years ago in the June, 1999 issue of a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Food Protein (Volume 62):

“The administration of sub therapeutic doses of antibiotics to livestock introduces selective pressures that may lead to the emergence and dissemination of resistant bacteria. The present findings clearly demonstrate that antibiotic-resistant bacteria in beef and milk pose a serious problem.”

Today, little boys and girls cannot be treated effectively with allopathic medicine for infections because antibiotics no longer work. Doctors are blamed for over-prescribing medicines. This is but part of the problem… All the while, new strains of germs grew within cows and developed immunities to antibiotics. If one eats antibiotics every day, and drinks antibiotic-laced milk containing germs with immunities, she / he will gain nothing by taking those same antibiotics when they are needed to treat human infection. Duh!

Got antibiotics?

Happy National Dairy Month.

I know MANY people, and have friends and family members who suffer from a range of health challenges which we have traced back to dietary mistakes sometimes far in the past, many times from using ‘foods’ that were supposed to be healthful or at least benign.
Maybe the most sinfully glaring example of a food (Loose use of the word) which was presented as GOOD by loving parents, relentless advertising and which was taught about and encouraged in schools and which was supplied, even forced upon children in school is Cow’s Milk and its various derivatives.

This nasty lie of a heavily infected and polluted JUNK FOOD has, since before I was born, been presented as an absolute essential food, while the truth is, that it is anything but, and is actually the opposite of its image.
This ‘milk thing’ is among the very biggest and most criminal scams ever forced down the throats of civilized Americans and Europeans.

With full support of governments charged with protecting the people, the unscrupulous corporate interests of the dairy industry have infiltrated medical institutions and educational facilities, and have created and maintained a complex culture of misinformation to disguise one of the most polluted and poisonous products as something not only healthful but essential.

It is heart-braking to remember the numerous examples of well meaning parents, coercing innocent, trusting children into drinking Cow’s Milk from a young age. Some were introduced to the foreign substance in the first year of life and had developed a perverted ‘taste’ for it that persisted long beyond the age when humans retain the enzymatic ability to digest even their own mother’s milk (16-24 months). Of course humans never did and never will have the ability to process, in a healthful way, the milk designed for an infant cow, even if it weren’t spiked with extra foreign hormones, all manor of infectious microbes born of filthy conditions and sickly, abused animals, high concentrations of agricultural chemicals and some of the most deleterious allergens in the environment, let alone in the food supply.

I can clearly remember some of the ingenious ways in which loving parents tricked or strong-armed children into swallowing the nasty stuff, always in the best interest of the kids:

Some parents put M ‘n’ Ms or chocolate chips in the glass, some poured sticky jelly in the bottom, and then carefully poured in the milk… The kids would have to drink the white poison to get the reward at the bottom of the glass. Sometimes the bribe of cookies ‘n’ milk would get the job done. And of course, the Cow’s Milk invasion also helped develop a whole new junk food category: chocolate syrup and super sweet cocoa drink mixes. These were often used to disguise the repulsive character of PUS-RICH Cow’s Milk enough to get the kids to enthusiastically chug it down….

Fatty, infectious, cross-species infant food + sugary Caffeine-like stimulating junk syrup = allergic, snotty, overweight, asthmatic, diabetic kids, troubled also with attention deficit, re-occurring ear infections, tonsillitis, chronic digestive and eliminative dysfunction, acne, Etc. sometimes growing into adulthood with exaggerated versions of the same maladies and additional ones to boot, thanks to milk.
Many people have retained their perverse, learned (Certainly not natural) association with Cow’s Milk into later life, even as the ‘quality’ of the commercial liquid has been further insulted through mass-production, chemical industry collusion, profit focused criminal activity and ever bolder lies.

It simply is a crying shame that kids trusted their parents. That backfired… Parents trusted their government and the schools, that backfired, and we all were brainwashed by sneaky advertising funded by criminals who invented a whole industry that makes no nutritional sense what-so-ever and serves no benevolent means at all. An entire multi-million dollar complex which reaps untold suffering on millions of animals, inexcusable sickness on people, and is a big part of the system more injurious to the environment than any other commercial interest in existence. This is the white slime that is supposed to do a body good… Take another look.
Take another look, see beyond the ‘White Lie’ and consider boycotting commercial Cow’s Milk and all the associated junk food (Un-Food). By refusing to be part of this ‘White Lie’ you will help the whole planet, all of her people and billions of ‘other’ animals to much happier and healthier.

Casein [Milk] is the most relevant chemical carcinogen ever discovered.
~Dr. T. Colin Campbell

Right now there are millions of human infants drinking poison Cow’s Milk through rubber nipples and millions of healthy young children being poisoned for life at the insistence of well meaning parents and teachers ill informed by an industry that buys government agencies, lies in the most intelligence-insulting ways, with the help of idolized celebrities, though: TV, radio, print media, internet, and through ‘Educational Material’ supplied BY THE INDUSTRY through the schools. And all of this disease producing whitewash is heavily subsidized by our government. The ‘Milk Crooks’ are getting rich from what sickens the people and pollutes the Earth… The pushers who are, right now hooking our kids on what can be a life long drug addiction can be stopped using the same system they exploit, supply and demand. When demand diminishes, supply dries-up.

Here’s something that is really wrong:

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides free ‘food’ and nutritional programs for underprivileged kids. Most of the kids are from minority populations. This Corporatized agency has chosen milk and dairy products to be a major component of the daily food gifts. The children now receive free breakfasts of cereal with milk, free lunches of chocolate milk with macaroni and cheese or pizza.

At least ninety-five percent of African-Americans are profoundly lactose intolerant.
Lactose is a sugar, which requires the enzyme (lactase) to break it down into glucose and galactose. If left intact, this sugar can only be broken down in the intestines by putrefactive bacteria and the results are gas, bloating, and intestinal distress. The ‘distresses’ are many.

Casein makes up eighty percent of milk’s protein. This tenacious glue causes histamine production, the body’s natural defense against an invading antigen. This interaction results in the production of thick, slimy mucus, in copious amounts.

The inner-city school systems receiving most of the USDA ‘assistance’ have very large populations of African-American students.
Got milk? Got cheese? These kids do, particularly chocolate milk. Why chocolate-ized milk?
It’s like pouring perfume on ‘stink’

The USDA is dumping heavily subsidized surplus food into the bodies of our kids, not offering healthful food or real food which could help them build strong bodies and sharp minds. Concentration suffers and behavior degrades when the milk induced fermentation occurs in the stomachs and intestines of the youngsters.

Milk contains powerful hormones. These relate to changing rates of sexual maturity.
Several studies have revealed that eighty percent of nine-year-old African-American girls had breast development with onset of early sexual maturity.

Children are becoming overweight at an earlier age. When eating bovine growth hormones in combination with animal fat, the body responds to the signals of those chemical messengers: Grow!

At least one out of five children has attention deficit disorder (ADD). A recent study in the Journal of Autism linked ADD to a milk protein, casomorphin. This opiate is similar to morphine, and it can be found in all milk from even the healthiest cows.

Another discouraging fact:
Both organic and non-organic milk contain fat, cholesterol and various allergens as well as 59 active hormones including the powerful growth hormone Growth Factor One (IGF-1), which is considered to be a fuel cell for cancer growth. IGF-1 has been identified in the rapid growth cancer.

Please boycott Cow’s Milk and ask your friends to help break the cycle. Eventually people will figure out what a ridiculous idea this milk thing is, but every day that we delay, will sentence thousands more children to sicker lives in a dirtier world.

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Professor T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. has been a researcher, lecturer, and policy advisor in the field of diet and cancer for nearly 40 years and in the author of the groundbreaking research book ‘The China Study’.

His answers to a few Milk-relevant questions:

Q: You claim that your research showed that the protein casein, which makes up 87 percent of cow’s milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. Are you saying that animal protein promotes cancer?

Dr. T. Colin Campbell: In our experimental animal studies, casein [Milk] as an animal protein promotes cancer, in spades. Of all the experimental research my laboratory did, this may be the most convincing. In fact, our findings, done in so many ways, show that casein is the most relevant chemical carcinogen ever discovered. I have presented this information in seminars to virtually all the relevant agencies and research groups who do these kinds of studies, and have published the results in the very best peer-reviewed scientific journals. These findings also are consistent with similar promoting effects of casein on the development of experimental atherogenesis (the lesion leading to heart disease) and rising blood cholesterol levels, among other toxic

Q: In your book you state that, “Among the many associations that are relevant to diet and disease, so many pointed to the same finding: People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.” There are some who disagree with this nutritional philosophy.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell: I don’t like to respond to the assertion that people make decisions on the basis of “philosophy,” which suggests that people are motivated by personalized agendas in making their decisions. Although I know this to be true for most people, this is not what motivated me. I simply did the research with my many students and colleagues and produced experimental findings that were peer-reviewed and published in the very best scientific journals. I then made my conclusions on the basis of actual empirical data. There was no philosophy involved. If I had a personal bias or philosophy in drawing my conclusions, it would have been exactly the opposite of these conclusions, given my many years on the farm milking cows.

My observation that “even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects” comes from the data showing that there is a high statistical significance between blood total cholesterol and aggregate chronic disease rates (i.e., “Western” diseases). This is especially interesting because dietary animal-based protein in this survey ranged only from 0 percent to 10 percent of total protein. Moreover, to observe such statistical significance within this very low range of animal-based protein and within such a low range of blood cholesterol is striking, especially when the blood cholesterol was so highly correlated with animal-source foods.

Q: Are you suggesting that we all become vegetarians?

Dr. T. Colin Campbell: I have never suggested that we should all be vegetarians, because about 90 percent of vegetarians are still consuming food (i.e., dairy, eggs) with nutrient compositions that actually account for the adverse health effects of animal-based foods. Although consuming foods that trend in the direction of better health, vegetarians do not do what they could do. This suggests that vegans should do better, but they, too, compromise their potential benefits because they consume food that is highly processed. My recommendation is to consume a whole-food, plant-based diet without supplementing with added fat, salt, sugar and processed foods.
Whether people should eat this way is, of course, their choice. If we want to maximize our health, I believe that it would be prudent to go the whole way to an all-plant-based diet and allow ourselves the opportunity to discover some hidden and delicious tastes that are masked because of our addictions to high fat, salt and sugar.

The ultimate problem with cow’s milk is that nature concocts different formulas of mother’s milk for different species. What’s good for baby calves isn’t necessarily good for human babies or adults. “Isn’t it strange that we’re the only species that suckles from another species?”

* Dr. Campbell theorises that cow’s milk unnaturally stimulates enzymes and growth hormones in the human body that increase the risk of various diseases.

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And if you think that other dairy products safer than milk, remember:

Each bite of hard cheese has TEN TIMES whatever was in that sip of milk… because it takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese. Each bite of ice cream has 12 times … and every swipe of butter 21 times whatever is contained in the fat molecules in a sip of milk. Most of these other ‘value added’ junk foods also contain (And deliver) extra ‘Junk ingredients’.

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Milk (Cow) triggers juvenile diabetes (And many other ill conditions)

Milk is strongly suspected of triggering juvenile diabetes, a disease that causes blindness and other serious health problems.(10) Some children’s bodies treat cow’s milk protein as a foreign substance and produce high levels of antibodies to fend off this ‘invader’. These antibodies also destroy the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas, leading to diabetes. Studies have also found that autism and schizophrenia in children may be linked to the body’s inability to digest the milk protein casein; symptoms of these diseases diminished or disappeared in 80 per cent of the children who were switched to milk-free diets.(11) Bacteria linked to Crohn’s disease, which affects 100,000 Britons and causes inflammation of the intestine, have been found in pasteurized milk.(12)
10) ‘Study Explores Link Between Cow’s Milk, Juvenile Diabetes’, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 20 Sep. 2002.
11) ‘Milk Protein May Play Role in Mental Disorders’, Reuters Health, 1 Apr. 1999.
12) Richard Woodman, ‘British Study Links Crohn’s Disease to Milk-Borne Bug’, Reuters Health, 6 Aug. 2003.
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Still skeptical?
Look no further than to those countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis, cancer, asthma, dementia, colic, types 1 and 2 diabetes, skin ailments, arthritis, ADD, constipation, coronary heart disease, kidney disease, *autism, *schizophrenia, E. Coli, migraine, high cholesterol…these diseases are all prevalent in countries that consume high amounts of animal protein. Cow’s milk has 4 times as much calcium as human milk, is it any wonder that this and other minerals in cow’s milk causes damage to the kidneys of young humans and contributes to infant ear infection and rectal and intestinal bleeding. *A1 milk - the type most consumed by Australians.
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Prof Ajit Varki of the University of California explained in an article in the Telegraph that human beings are the only animals (including our close relatives chimpanzees and other primates) not to produce Neu5Gc (N-glycolylneuraminic acid), a sialic acid which plays an important role in our bodies to regulate our immune responses. Instead, we have a very similar molecule called Neu5Ac.
When we eat meat and milk, the Neu5Gc becomes absorbed in to our tissues and our bodies react to it as a foreign object. Tests have revealed that many people carry antibodies that react to Neu5Gc which could trigger damaging inflammation. Chronic inflammation is linked to cancer. There is also evidence to suggest Neu5Gc is linked to heart diseases, arthritis, diabetes and asthma.
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The Dairy Management Inc. has specifically targeted children in their campaign. (1) This will raise no public concern, because most people consider cow’s milk the healthiest of all food choices, especially when it comes to children. Over 25% of children are overweight in Western countries and cow’s milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter, and sour cream, with all their fat and calories, contribute greatly to this deadly epidemic. Many of these overweight children are now developing type-2 diabetes. However, the most common variety of diabetes found in children is still type-1 or insulin dependent diabetes (IDDM).

Type-1 Diabetes The evidence incriminating cow’s milk consumption in the cause of type-1 diabetes is sufficient to cause the American Academy of Pediatrics to issue these warnings, “Early exposure of infants to cow’s milk protein may be an important factor in the initiation of the beta cell (insulin-producing cells of the pancreas) destructive process in some individuals.” (20) “The avoidance of cow’s milk protein for the first several months of life may reduce the later development of IDDM or delay its onset in susceptible people.” (20)

Exposure to cow’s milk protein early in life, when the intestinal tract is immature, sometimes results in the milk protein entering the blood stream where antibodies to this foreign substance, cow’s milk, are made by the immune system. Unfortunately, these same antibodies also attack the insulin- producing cells of the pancreas. By glassful of milk after spoonful of ice cream, over a period of about 5 to 7 years, the child destroys his or her own pancreas*” and is left with a lifelong, life-threatening, handicap: diabetes. The pancreas is forever destroyed and the child will have to take insulin shots daily. Complications, such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease will be a real threat during his or her shortened lifespan.(See my July 2002 McDougall Newsletter for a discussion of type-1 diabetes).
Diseases of Foreign Protein
Many conditions can be traced back to reactions to cow’s milk. Milk contains more than 25 different proteins that can induce adverse reactions in humans. (26) Our immune system perceives these foreign proteins as alien invaders, like a virus or bacteria, and launches an attack in response, as in the case of type-1 diabetes discussed above and many other allergic and autoimmune diseases.

HERE IS A PARTIAL LIST OF DISEASES CAUSED BY, OR LINKED TO, DAIRY PROTEINS General: Loss of appetite, growth retardation. Upper Gastrointestinal: Canker sores (aphthous stomatitis), irritation of tongue, lips and mouth, tonsil enlargement, vomiting, gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), Sandifer’s syndrome, peptic ulcer disease, colic, stomach cramps, abdominal distention, intestinal obstruction, type-1 diabetes. Lower Gastrointestinal: Bloody stools, colitis, malabsorption, diarrhea, painful defecation, fecal soiling, infantile colic, chronic constipation, infantile food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis. Respiratory: Nasal stuffiness, runny nose, otitis media (inner ear trouble), sinusitis, wheezing, asthma, and pulmonary infiltrates. Bone and joint: Rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Beheta’s disease, (possibly psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis). Skin: Rashes, atopic dermatitis, eczema, seborrhea, hives (urticaria) Nervous System (Behavioral): Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, autism, schizophrenia, irritability, restlessness, hyperactivity, headache, lethargy, fatigue, “allergic-tension fatigue syndrome,” muscle pain, mental depression, enuresis (bed-wetting). Blood: Abnormal blood clotting, iron deficiency anemia, low serum proteins, thrombocytopenia, and eosinophilia. Other: Nephrotic syndrome, glomerulonephritis, anaphylactic shock and death, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or crib or cot death), injury to the arteries causing arteritis, and eventually, atherosclerosis. References are available through the National Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov - Search cow’s milk and any of the diseases listed above.

All dairy products contain milk proteins, including skim milk, yogurt, cheese, and butter, and many butter substitutes. Milk proteins are listed in packaged food products with a variety of names, such as milk solids, skim milk powder, casein, caseinates, whey, and albumin. Milk is also often put into packaged foods and not declared on the label - this is illegal and punishable by FDA action.
1) Dairy Management Inc.
http://www.dairycheckoff.com/news/release-012403.asp
20) Work Group on Cow’s Milk Protein and Diabetes Mellitus. Infant
feeding practices and their possible relationship to the etiology of
diabetes mellitus. Pediatrics 94: 752, 1994.
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The China Study
The China Study culminated a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. A comprehensive survey of diseases and lifestyle factors in rural China and Taiwan; it is widely thought to be the most comprehensive study on nutrition and related disease to date. The project produced over 8000 statistically significant associations between diet and disease. The findings showed that those who consumed the most animal-based foods suffered the most chronic diseases; whereas those who consumed the most plant based diets tended to avoid these diseases and were the healthiest. Chronic diseases included: heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Also studied were the effects of diet in reducing or reversing the risks of chronic disease. The study also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities and irresponsible scientists. [57] According to Dr. T. Colin Campbell of Cornell, we’re basically a vegetarian species, should be eating a wide variety of plant foods and minimizing animal foods., [58], [59] On the question of osteoporosis, Dr. Campbell replied: The Chinese study found an average daily calcium intake of 544 mg. (almost none from animal products) and there was basically no osteoporosis in China. In the US there is an average calcium intake of 1,143 mg per day (mostly from dairy) and osteoporosis is a major health issue. [60]
Dairy products and health issues (general)

Much of the rationale for the belief in milk as an ideal food was based on turn of the 20th century research done on rats. Calves have fours stomachs and double their body weight in 47 days as opposed to the 180 days it takes for a human baby to double it’s weight. Cows’ milk is also 15% protein (as opposed to the 5% protein content of mother’s breast milk). Much of the rationale for the belief in milk as an ideal food was based on turn of the 20th century research done on rats. However, the mother’s milk of rats is 49% protein and baby rats double their weight in four days. Yet, another example of erroneous data derived from animal testing. [61]

The focus of published reports on dairy consumption are infections, colic, intestinal bleeding, anemia and allergies. There is also the more serious viral infections of bovine leukemia, an AIDS like virus and diabetes. Issues in children also include: ear infections, tonsil infections, bed wetting and asthma. In adults dairy related health issues include: heart disease, arthritis, respiratory problems and osteoporosis as well as leukemia, lymphoma and cancer. Also, milk contamination by pus cells and chemicals such as pesticides. [62] Both organic and non-organic milk contains 59 active hormones as well fat, cholesterol and various allergens. Most cows’ milk also contains toxic chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides and dioxins as well as many as 52 powerful antibiotics; blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. Both organic and non-organic milk contain fat, cholesterol and various allergens as well as 59 active hormones including the powerful growth hormone Growth Factor One (IGF-1), which is considered to be a fuel cell for cancer growth. IGF-1 has been identified in the rapid growth cancer. [63] It has been positively documented and affirmed that dairy consumption leads to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes and exposure to contaminants. [64], [65] However, research has demonstrated a calcium wash or a loss of calcium and other critical minerals such as potassium, magnesium, and iron from the blood stream as a direct result of dairy consumption starting at 24 ounces per day. [66] That is, low animal protein diets create positive calcium balance whereas high animal protein diets create a negative balance and bone density loss. As a result of such data, many have turned to low fat dairy products. However because these products contain higher concentrations of protein, low (particularly non-fat) products have shown to increase osteoporosis, kidney problems and some cancers. [67]
(57 - 67) listed as 1 - 11 below
1. ↑ Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II The China Study, 2005, ISBN 1-932100-38-5
2. ↑ Jane Brody, Grand Prix of Epidemiology, New York Times, May 1990
3. ↑ T. Colin Campbell, PhD Correcting Nutritional Fictions from the New York Times, Vegsource.com, 2003
4. ↑ Gene Franks Milk Sucks, or Bossie’s Revenge Pure Water Gazette, Sept 1991
5. ↑ Gene Franks Milk Sucks, or Bossie’s Revenge Pure Water Gazette, Sept 1991
6. ↑ Robert M. Kradjian, MD The Milk Letter, A Message to My Patients
7. ↑ Dave Rietz Dangers of Milk and Dairy Products - The Facts, Rense.com, July 2002
8. ↑ E. Koop, The Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health, 88-50210, National Library of Medicine, 1988
9. ↑ Melvyn R. Werbach Nutritional Influences on Illness: A Sourcebook of Clinical Research, December 1990, ISBN 0879835311
10. ↑ Report of the Task Force on the Assessment of the Scientific Evidence Relating to Infant-Feeding Practices and Infant Health. Pediatrics, 74:579; 1984.
11. ↑ Mark J. Occhipinti, MS, PhD Milk Really Do The Body Good? Calcium and Protein: A Mixture For Disaster, American Fitness Professionals & Associates, accessed January 2009
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The protein lactalbumin, has been identified as a key factor in
diabetes (and a major reason for NOT giving cows milk to infants).
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“The National Dairy Board’s Slogan, ‘Milk. It does
a body good,’ sounds a little hollow these days.”

Scientific American, October, 1992
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“These new studies, and more than 20
well-documented previous ones, have prompted
one researcher to say the link between milk and
juvenile diabetes is ‘very solid’.”… Diabetes Care 1994;17 (12)
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All parents dread juvenile diabetes for their children. A Canadian study
reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Mar. 1990,
describes a “…significant positive correlation between consumption of
unfermented milk protein and incidence of insulin dependent diabetes
mellitus in data from various countries. Conversely a possible negative
relationship is observed between breast-feeding at age 3 months and
diabetes risk.”.

Another study from Finland found that diabetic children had higher
levels of serum antibodies to cowsÂ’ milk (Diabetes Research 7(3): 137-
140 March 1988). Here is a quotation from this study:

We infer that either the pattern of cows’ milk consumption is altered in
children who will have insulin dependent diabetes mellitus or, their
immunological reactivity to proteins in cows’ milk is enhanced, or the
permeability of their intestines to cows’ milk protein is higher than
normal.

The April 18, 1992 British Medical Journal has a fascinating study
contrasting the difference in incidence of juvenile insulin dependent
diabetes in Pakistani children who have migrated to England. The
incidence is roughly 10 times greater in the English group compared to
children remaining in Pakistan! What caused this highly significant
increase? The authors said that “the diet was unchanged in Great
Britain.” Do you believe that? Do you think that the availability of
milk, sugar and fat is the same in Pakistan as it is in England? That a
grocery store in England has the same products as food sources in
Pakistan? I don’t believe that for a minute. Remember, we’re not talking
here about adult onset, type II diabetes which all workers agree is
strongly linked to diet as well as to a genetic predisposition. This
study is a major blow to the “it’s all in your genes” crowd. Type I
diabetes was always considered to be genetic or possibly viral, but now
this? So resistant are we to consider diet as causation that the authors
of the last article concluded that the cooler climate in England altered
viruses and caused the very real increase in diabetes! The first two
authors had the same reluctance top admit the obvious. The milk just may
have had something to do with the disease.

The latest in this remarkable list of reports, a New England Journal of
Medicine article (July 30, 1992), also reported in the Los Angeles
Times. This study comes from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
and from Finnish researchers. In Finland there is “…the world’s
highest rate of dairy product consumption and the world’s highest rate
of insulin dependent diabetes. The disease strikes about 40 children out
of every 1,000 there contrasted with six to eight per 1,000 in the
United States…. Antibodies produced against the milk protein during
the first year of life, the researchers speculate, also attack and
destroy the pancreas in a so-called auto-immune reaction, producing
diabetes in people whose genetic makeup leaves them vulnerable.” “…142
Finnish children with newly diagnosed diabetes. They found that every
one had at least eight times as many antibodies against the milk protein
as did healthy children, clear evidence that the children had a raging
auto immune disorder.” The team has now expanded the study to 400
children and is starting a trial where 3,000 children will receive no
dairy products during the first nine months of life. “The study may take
10 years, but we’ll get a definitive answer one way or the other,”
according to one of the researchers. I would caution them to be certain
that the breast feeding mothers use on cows’ milk in their diets or the
results will be confounded by the transmission of the cows’ milk protein
in the mother’s breast milk…. Now what was the reaction from the
diabetes association? This is very interesting! Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer,
the president of the association says: “It does not mean that children
should stop drinking milk or that parents of diabetics should withdraw
dairy products. These are rich sources of good protein.” (Emphasis
added) My God, it’s the “good protein” that causes the problem! Do you
suspect that the dairy industry may have helped the American Diabetes
Association in the past?…
From: THE MILK LETTER : A MESSAGE TO MY PATIENTS
Robert M. Kradjian, MD
Breast Surgery Chief Division of General Surgery,
Seton Medical Centre #302 - 1800 Sullivan Ave.
Daly City, CA 94015 USA
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Literally dozens of other precious enzymes are destroyed in the pasteurization process. Without them, milk is very difficult to digest. The human pancreas is not always able to produce these enzymes; over-stress of the pancreas can lead to diabetes and other diseases.
From: Processing Is the Problem, Dr Joseph Mercola

No person should drink the milk of another species`
Dr Greene Content
Cow’s Milk and Diabetes
Pediatric News (33(8):2, 1999), has reported on a significant new study coming out of Finland. Up until now, the relationship between cow’s milk and type 1 diabetes has been controversial. This is the first carefully designed, controlled prospective study, and it shows a dramatic reduction in diabetes in high-risk children who avoided cow’s milk products for the first 6-8 months of life. If there is type 1 diabetes in the immediate family, I would recommend avoiding cow’s milk-based formulas. It’ll take awhile for scientists to sort out the details, but the early word is — yes, cow protein can trigger diabetes in those who are genetically susceptible.
http://www.drgreene.com/21_708.html
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A new Finnish study claims consuming dairy products early on correlates with diabetes risk. NewScientist is on it:
One explanation is that beta-lactoglobulin, a protein in cow’s, but not human, milk prompts babies to make antibodies that also attack glycodelin, a protein vital for training the immune system. The mistuned immune system then mistakenly destroys insulin-producing pancreatic cells, leading to type 1 diabetes.

“The mistuned immune system mistakenly destroys insulin-producing cells”

Now Marcia Goldfarb of the company Anatek-EP in Portland, Maine, has found that five children with type 1 diabetes, who were fed cow’s-milk formula, all have antibodies to beta-lactoglobulin.
Not that surprising. Cow’s milk is not exactly good for you, especially for kids. Dr. Fuhrman explains:
The leading cause of digestive intolerance leading to stomach complaints is dairy products. Many kids have subtle allergies to cow’s milk that perpetuate their nasal congestion, leading to ear infections.

Milk, which is designed by nature for the rapidly growing cow, has about half its calories supplied from fat. The fatty component is concentrated more to make cheese and butter. Milk and cheese are the foods Americans encourage their children to eat, believing them to be healthy foods. Fifty years of heavy advertising by an economically powerful industry has shaped the public’s perception, illustrating the power of one-sided advertising, but the reality and true health effects on our children is a different story. Besides the link between high-saturated-fat foods (dairy fat) and cancer, there is a body of scientific literature linking the consumption of cow’s milk to many other diseases. If we expect our children to resist many common illnesses, they simply must consume less milk, cheese, and butter. Dairy foods should be consumed in limited quantity or not at all.
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A recent paper from Finland shows that drinking cow’s milk is associated with getting juvenile diabetes and the earlier children start to drink milk and the more they drink, they more likely they are to develop diabetes. (SM Virtanen et al: .Diabetologia 1994(April);37(4):381-387)
Insulin drives sugar, called glucose, from your bloodstream into your cells. When you don’t have enough insulin, sugar cannot pass readily into your cells and it accumulates in and damages cells. There are two possible explanations for the association between drinking cow’s milk and getting juvenile diabetes. One is that the fat in cow’s milk may start diabetes in genetically susceptible children. The other more likely explanation is immunological. Your body produces T cells to kill germs. Doctors have known for years that the T cells of diabetic children destroy the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Milk may contain a surface protein that is similar to pancreatic cells that produce insulin. Researchers at Stanford and UCLA have shown that a common Coxsackie virus has the same surface area, called GAD, as pancreatic cells (glutamic acid decarboxylase). When a susceptible child is infected with the coxsackie virus, his immune system produces cells that kill the GAD in pancreatic cells as well as the GAD in Coxsackie virus because they have the same surface areas. (Nature November, 1993) If this research can be confirmed by other studies, doctors should be able to prevent juvenile diabetes by picking out the people who are likely to develop that disease and injecting them with the GAD protein. A similar procedure is used to prevent a type of red cell bursting in newborns called RH incompatibility.
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D., for CBS Radio News http://www.drmirkin.com/archive/6186.html
`German Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Düsseldorf, Auf’m Hennekamp 65, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Cow’s milk-based infant formulas and cow’s milk consumption in childhood have been suggested to promote the development of type 1 diabetes mellitus and other immune-mediated or neurological diseases. Epidemiological studies in man have led to the hypothesis that introduction of cow’s milk-based infant formula within the first 3 months of life is associated with increased risk of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Furthermore, in animal models of type 1 diabetes mellitus, cow’s milk proteins have been proven to be ‘diabetogenic’.`
Cow’s milk is linked to diabetes.
A study of children in 40 countries found that the incidence of juvenile diabetes was directly related to diet: The higher the consumption of cow’s milk and other animal products, the greater the chance of developing diabetes. Conversely, children who consumed a largely vegetarian diet had a much lower incidence of diabetes.
–The American Journal of Nutrition
Muntoni et al., 71 (2000),1525-9
A study of more than 800 children found that feeding infants cow’s milk formula is “associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes …”
–Diabetes Care
Hypponen et al., December 1999
In another study of 800 children, researchers found that the “introduction to cow’s milk products before age 8 is a risk factor” for juvenile diabetes and that breast-feeding babies for more than the first week after birth protected infants from developing diabetes.
Diabetes Care
Gimeno et al., August 1997
In 1994, the American Academy of Pediatrics convened a panel to examine the issue, concluding that exposure to cow’s milk protein may indeed be an important factor in the development of diabetes. Based on the more than 90 studies that had addressed the issue, the academy reported that avoiding cow’s milk exposure might delay or prevent the disease in susceptible individuals.
–Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics Work Group on Cow’s Milk Protein and Diabetes Mellitus, 1994
“The avoidance of cow’s milk protein for the first several months of life may reduce the later development of IDDM (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) in susceptible individuals. … In families with a strong history of IDDM, particularly if a sibling has diabetes, breast-feeding and avoidance of commercially available cow’s milk and products containing intact cow’s milk protein during the first year of life are strongly encouraged.”
–Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics, November 1994
“The National Dairy Board’s slogan, ‘Milk. It does a body good,’ sounds a little hollow these days … [because of] evidence that early exposure to a protein in cow’s milk may sometimes lead to juvenile diabetes.”
–Scientific American
October 1992
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Diabetes and Diet
Science News, Cows’ Milk, Diabetes Connection Bolstered (diabetes in kids) http://www.milksucks.com/babydiab.asp
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Researchers in Maine report a new explanation for the link between consumption of cows’ milk protein in infant formula early in life and an increased risk of later developing Type-1 diabetes. A protein in cow’s milk that triggers an unusual immune response appears to be the main culprit, they say. The study is scheduled for the June 6 issue of ACS’ monthly Journal of Proteome Research.
In the new study, Marcia F. Goldfarb points out that several studies have reported a possible link between the early introduction of cow’s milk protein into an infant’s diet and subsequent development of the disease. In Type-1 diabetes, the immune system erroneously appears to attack and destroy insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. It usually begins in childhood, requires insulin injections, and afflicts about 800,000 people in the U.S. alone. Scientists do not understand the link between cow’s milk and diabetes. They know, however, that beta-lactoglobulin, a protein present in cow’s milk but not found in human breast-milk, is structurally similar to the human protein glycodelin, which controls the production of T-cells. T-cells help guard the body against infection.
Goldfarb describes research on patients with Type-1 diabetes, which suggests that an infant’s immature immune system may inadvertently destroy glycodelin in an effort to destroy the similar cow’s milk protein, which the system recognizes as foreign. This could result in the overproduction of T-cells, which can attack the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas and trigger diabetes, she says.-American Chemical Society http://www.huliq.com/58658/link-between-early-consumption-cows%E2%80%99-milk-and-type1-diabetes
`This is because beta-lactoglobulin, a protein in cow’s stimulate babies to make antibodies that also attack glycodelin, a protein vital for training the immune system.

This in turn disturbs immune system, thereby misguidedly destroying insulin-producing pancreatic cells, leading to type 1 diabetes .

Supporting the previous findings, Marcia Goldfarb of the company Anatek-EP in Portland, Maine, also discovered five children with type 1 diabetes, who were fed cow’s-milk formula and all had antibodies to beta lactoglobulin. `
Early exposure to cows’ milk raises risk of diabetes in high risk children
Scott Gottlieb New York
The controversial link between drinking cows’ milk during infancy and the risk of developing diabetes may have been strengthened by a new study that finds that exposure early in life to cow’s milk may increase the lifetime risk of developing diabetes in high risk children.
In children diagnosed at a young age with diabetes, insulin autoantibodies are particularly present and are believed by some researchers to be the primary event in the process leading to type 1 diabetes.
Exposure to cows’ milk has previously been shown to cause the body to mount an immune response to insulin in some children and may precipitate the development of these autoantibodies, but the link has been disputed by at least one major study.
In the current study Dr Johanna Paronen from University of Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues studied infants with relatives who had diabetes. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/321/7268/1040/d

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THE LATEST IN DIABETES
More Evidence Against Milk
A new research report adds more evidence linking cow’s milk to diabetes in children. A milk protein causes an immune reaction in diabetic children, according to a study in The Lancet. It is believed that this reaction can result in the destruction of the body’s insulin-producing cells.
The protein culprit, beta-casein, also exists in human milk, but in a different molecular configuration and in much lower amounts than that in cow’s milk. Breast-fed infants have a measure of protection against diabetes.
In 1993, PCRM held a press conference to alert parents to potential risks to their children from milk consumption. Benjamin Spock, M.D.; Frank Oski, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University; and others pointed to evidence that cow’s milk could increase the risk of diabetes, iron deficiency anemia, and other serious problems.
While the dairy industry dismissed these concerns, the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded that exposure to cow’s milk protein may indeed be an important factor in the development of diabetes. Based on the more than 90 studies that have addressed the issue, an Academy panel reported that avoiding cow’s milk exposure may delay or prevent the disease in susceptible individuals.
An editorial in The Lancet stated that the new findings were particularly telling because they involved T-cells, “the key players” in the cause of diabetes. http://www.jivdaya.org/can_a_vegan_diet_cure_diabetes.htm
`The Dairy Industry’s Unified Marketing Plan (UMP)
Realize that when I say milk, I’m also implicating all dairy products that are made from milk: non-fat milk, low-fat milk, buttermilk, cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream, whey, kefir, and butter. All of them share a similar nutritional profile (plus or minus the fat, protein, and sugar), and as a result, all of them contribute to a wide range of health problems.
Will the UMP Inform You of the Contamination? E. Coli, AIDS and Leukemia Viruses?

Here are a few very disturbing facts about the contamination of milk with loads of bacteria and millions of white blood cells (pus cells) which are there to help fight off the infections found in cows and milk (see the April 2003 Newsletter found at http://www.drmcdougall.com ).

Will the 2003 Unified Marketing Plan specify money to inform you of this upsetting information?

You will never see an advertisement with a famous movie star proudly wearing a white mustache, properly labeled as containing 300,000 white blood cells and 25,000 bacteria.

Imagine what is in the glass if just one white mustache contains 300,000 PUS cells and 25,000 bacteria… Bottoms Up!

Dairy products were the foods most often recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from the period October 1, 1993 through September 30, 1998 because of contamination with infectious agents, mostly bacteria. (2)

They are commonly tainted with disease-causing bacteria, such as salmonella, staphylococci, listeria, deadly E. coli O1573 and Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (4) (possibly one of the agents causing Crohn’s disease; a form of life-threatening chronic colitis), as well as viruses known to cause lymphoma and leukemia-like diseases, and immune deficiency in cattle.
AIDS and Leukemia Viruses Dairy cattle are infected with bovine immunodeficiency viruses (BIV) and bovine leukemia viruses (BLV), worldwide. (Bovine immunodeficiency viruses can also be properly referred to as bovine AIDS viruses.)
In the United States, results show an average 40% (Now closer to 70%) of beef herds and 64% (Now up to 80%) of dairy herds are infected with BIV. (5)
In Canada (6-7), the infection rate is 70% and in Argentina (8) the rate is 84% for BLV.
Herds infected with the BIV are usually infected with the leukemia virus (BLV) also. (5)
Both viruses can cross species lines thus infecting other animals, like sheep, goats, and chimpanzees â*” and they develop disease. (5)
Nationwide and worldwide, leukemia is more common in the higher dairy consuming populations. (9,10)
An increased incidence of leukemia has been found among dairy farmers in multiple studies. (11-14)
BIV infection has been reported in the human population. (15)
The bovine leukemia virus has been classified in the same group as the Human T-cell Leukemia/Lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), which is known to cause leukemia and lymphomas in humans (Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma). (16)
BIV is structurally and genetically closely related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type-1 (the virus causing human AIDS). (17)
Pasteurization kills many types of microorganisms, but it is not foolproof. There is also concern that pasteurization may break the viruses into fragments that may become even more dangerous. (18)

Milk proteins are listed in packaged food products with a variety of names, such as milk solids, skim milk powder, casein, caseinates, whey, and albumin

Consumption of animal products [COW MILK} increases the levels of
insulin-like growth factor-1 in your body. However, modern dairy technology has made dairy products an even more potent source of this growth stimulant. Since 1985, U.S. dairy farmers have been allowed to inject cows with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH), a genetically engineered bovine growth hormone that increases milk production. RbGH treatment produces an increase in IGF-1 in cow’s milk, by as much as 10-fold. (53,54) IGF-1 is not destroyed by pasteurization. (53) The overall effect is that milk seems to raise IGF-1 levels in people more than any other component of our diet. (55) Fact: IGF-1 is a Powerful Cancer Promoter.
From: The Pus-Bacteria Moustache
Marketing Milk & Disease
By John McDougall, MD
(65 references)
6-11-3
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The real truth about milk: (Short list)
Human bodies are not designed to drink the milk from other animal species. Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s leading authority on childcare was one of the first to warn the world against the dangers of consuming cow’s milk.
Consider these cold facts.
Diary products contain no fiber or complex carbohydrates
Milk is saturated with fat and cholesterol
Milk is contaminated with cow’s blood, pus, pesticides, and hormones
Dairy is linked with allergies, constipation, obesity, heart disease and cancer
Cow’s milk can cause anemia in children
Dairy can result in insulin-dependent diabetes in the later years of life
Diary products actually cause osteoporosis. Chinese women who consume calcium from plant sources have lesser incidents of bone fractures in old age
Milk has no iron, however it also blocks its absorption
Milk has less protein than most vegetables
Milk does not cure peptic ulcer disease. It only offers temporary relief of pain. In the long run milk causes acidity and further destroys the stomach lining
Milk is carcinogenic. It contains a factor called as IGF-1. All cancer studies show that when IGF-1 rises in the body one gets cancer.

… And let’s do the numbers …

The cows pay a heavy price:
Cows live for about 25 years and produce milk for about nine years. The stress of the factory farm leads to disease, lameness and reproductive problems and most cows die or are sent to the slaughterhouse in four years.
In the farm, the cows are hooked by their udders to electronic machines and cows are subject to constant electric shocks. This leads to mastitis.
They spend their entire lives standing on concrete floors and living conditions are abysmal.
Cows are genetically manipulated given antibiotics and hormones so that their milk yield increases.
To see that cows produce milk, they are impregnated. Female calves are either slaughtered or added to the diary herd. The male calves are killed for veal, which is considered to be a meat delicacy.

We need not be slavishly dependent on milk:
There are so many vegan alternatives to dairy products and they are available in all health food stores and supermarkets. There are milk substitutes like Soy, almond and rice milk that are equally tasty and nutritious.
There are frozen desserts like Soy Delicious, Purely Decadent, Rice Dream and fruit sorbets, and most of them are rather junky by sensible ‘whole food /natural food’ standards to be honest, but far healthier then the cow stuff , and cruelty-free of course. There is however one superior frozen desert that I whole-heartedly recommend. If you think that you deserve the very best, and I think you do, please treat yourself to a pint of Coconut Bliss.I challenge you to find more ‘Bliss’ in a spoonful then any flavor of Coconut Bliss, but if you want to experiment, here is a list of about 30 that may be worth a taste:
No Bull… Way Better then Ice Cream

References:
1. Plant Foods and Dairy Products, Am J Clin Nutr 61, suppl 6 (Jun 1995): 1407 S—1415S.
2. M. Nestle, Food Lobbies, the Food Pyramid, and U.S. Nutrition Policy, Int J Health Serv 23, no. 3 (1993): 483-96.
3. W. C. Willett, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, in the Boston Globe, June 8, 1999.
4. notmilk.com
5. juiceguy.com
6. snyderhealth.com

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Addressing some ‘Milk Myths’
There are a lot of myths surrounding the healthfulness and ethics of human consumption of dairy products. I have been doing some reading and research, and my goal with this post is to dispel some of those myths. To the best of my ability, I will document all the sources for my information; however, as I have done a lot of reading about these issues in recent months, the list is likely not comprehensive. Research on the subject abounds–do some reading yourself!

Myth 1: Milk does a body good.

Cows are herbivores, and thrive on a diet of grasses. The pastoral dairies we often picture in our minds include black-and-white spotted cows, dotting the rolling green hillsides, lazily grazing on the pastureland and ruminating. The farmer comes out with a tin bucket and a little wooden stool and lovingly milks his cows each day, stroking them and talking to them all the while.

This is not a true reflection of the life and diet of a modern-day, factory-farmed cow. Cows in factory farming operations are confined to stalls and hard cement floors, never given the freedom to graze. They are deprived of a natural diet and instead fed a feed mix consisting heavily of corn (most of it genetically modified), heavy doses of antibiotics, and occasionally the ground-up remains of their fallen comrades (the practice of turning dead cattle back into cattle feed is illegal, but the industry is poorly monitored and this practice still occurs). We all know that animal milk nutrition is based of the nutrients in the diet of the animal that produces it. So what is going into your milk? Genetically modified corn that was farmed with heavy doses of chemical fertilizers; antibiotics; any contaminants that may have remained in the bodies of the dead cows that were ground up for feed.

It gets worse, though. Dairy cows are pumped full of rBGH, a bovine growth hormone designed to increase their milk yield. The increased milk yield resulting from the rBGH causes increased rates of mastitis–the udders of these unfortunate cows swell and become infected with the unnatural volume of milk that they produce. Yet, in the interest of precious time and profit, cows with infected udders are not treated properly for their infection–they are still milked continually. The antibiotics pumped into the cattle feed are intended to deal with such diseases and infection, the intent being that these maladies will get cleared up through the feed and the cow loses no milking time. As a result of not treating mastitis immediately and properly, pus which develops inside the udder ends up in the milk. This pus-infused milk is not discarded; rather, it is mixed with “healthy” milk, packaged, and sold.

Myth 2: Cows need to be milked.

It is true that when cows produce milk, it is healthy for them to be milked and relieved of the pressure that builds up in their udders under the weight of the milk. However, what is not good for cows in these factory farm operations is the extent of their milk production and their milking. These cows are constantly being impregnated, giving birth and then immediately having their calves taken from them, and milked extensively. This ensures that not a moment of precious time escapes when the cow could have been giving profitable milk.

A dairy cow which is allowed to live its natural life, grazing in the outdoors and lactating in natural cycles, should live for 20 years or more. Cows using modern farming methods, however, are often slaughtered once their milk production slows, in as few as three lactation cycles. Modern milking practices, then, scarcely bode well for these animals.

Myth 3: Milk is a good source of calcium and protein.

Our bodies need calcium. Calcium is extremely important in our bone development; without proper levels of calcium intake, we are at risk for the ever more widespread bone disease known as osteoporosis, which makes bones brittle and fragile. America is well aware of these risks, and in fact recommended daily intakes of calcium in the U.S. are some of the highest in the world, at 1,000-1,400 milligrams each day. Yet Americans still are at high risk for osteoporosis. Why?

Calcium is a mineral that neutralizes acid. Our blood has a certain pH level that it must maintain, which is a fairly neutral level that slightly leans to the alkaline end of the spectrum. But certain foods are known to raise the acidity level of the blood–namely, animal proteins and highly processed “junk” foods. Our bodies must produce increased amounts of acid to digest such foods, and once the digestion has occurred, the acid enters our blood supply and makes it more acidic. Thus, our bodies actually leach calcium from our bones to neutralize the acid content in our blood.

So, yes. Milk is a substantive source of both calcium and protein. But when we rely on the protein in milk and other animal products, we actually lose much of the calcium that we take in.

Consider that many peoples have survived for hundreds of years without dairy products, such as the Chinese, and have had little instance of osteoporosis. People in these places take in far less calcium than most Americans do today, but they get their calcium and their protein vastly from plant-based sources. Consider also that vegetarian women, at age 65, average 18% bone loss, while their omnivorous peers average 35% bone loss.

Myth 4: Beef production is cruel, but dairy production is not.

I have already addressed this to some extent above, but there is room for elaboration.

Dairy cows, as I mentioned, are not allowed to graze in conventional farming operations; they are confined, fed meal that is far from their natural diet, and often never see the outdoors. They live but a fraction of their natural lives before being sent to slaughter, once their productivity has declined due to the exhausting methods of milk production that factory farmers implement. During the time when they are alive, disease is rampant among milk-producing cattle because they are confined in such closed, tight living areas where disease can spread easily from one animal to the next, and are fed such enormous levels of antibiotics that antibiotic-resistant strains of the bacteria are constantly evolving–thus increasing the need for more antibiotics, thus perpetuating the cycle.

When a dairy cow gives birth, the calf is immediately separated from the mother, often never even allowed to nurse. Female calves are raised to produce milk, but male calves are considered useless by-products of the dairy industry. They are often sold cheaply into veal production–one of the most horrifying aspects of animal agriculture. Veal calves are confined to crates where they have no room to move, and they are often chained by the neck to further restrict their movement. This is what gives veal meat its characteristic tenderness. The calves are fed an iron-deficient diet so that their meat is pale and desirable; often they become so weak that their legs break beneath their own weight. Then, after 16 weeks of this kind of life, the calves are slaughtered.

“Certified organic” milk, to an extent, helps to alleviate some of these problems, but by no means solves them. Cows whose milk is certified organic must not be fed antibiotics or injected with hormones, and they must be given access to pasture for a part of the year. For large-scale organic dairy producers, this means giving the animals a minimal amount of time in the pasture, and using more conventional methods as much as they can to keep costs low. And even in the organic industry, cows may be sent to slaughter prematurely when they slow down their production. Even in the organic industry, male calves may be sold into the horrible veal industry. For most corporate producers, the animal is still a commodity rather than a living being, and they will do as little as they can to get the lucrative “organic” label slapped onto their products. So unless you personally know your dairy farmer and his commitment to earth- and animal-friendly, sustainable production, unless you know he is concerned for the well-being of his animals, then you cannot be certain that the industry you are supporting is not guilty of the mistreatment of millions of animals each year.

For more reading, follow these links: Dangers of Milk. rBGH on Wikipedia. The Welfare of Cattle in Dairy Production. Veal Production. Issues: Organic.
And remember: PUS. One cubic centimeter (cc) of commercial cow’s milk is allowed to have up to 750,000 somatic cells (common name is “PUS”) and 20,000 live bacteria… before it is kept off the market. That amounts to a whopping 20 million live squiggly bacteria and up to 750 MILLION pus cells per liter (bit more than a quart). 1 cup = 236.5882cc 177,441,150 pus cells ~ 4,731,600 bacteria 24 oz (3 glasses) = 532,323,450 pus cells ~ 14,220,000 bacteria (the “recommended” daily intake) The EU and the Canadians allow for a less “tasty” 400,000,000 pus cells per liter.

…By the way…
Dairy products and health issues (general)
Much of the rationale for the belief in milk as an ideal food was based on turn of the 20th century research done on rats. Calves have fours stomachs and double their body weight in 47 days as opposed to the 180 days it takes for a human baby to double it’s weight. Cows’ milk is also 15% protein (as opposed to the 5% protein content of mother’s breast milk). Much of the rationale for the belief in milk as an ideal food was based on turn of the 20th century research done on rats. However, the mother’s milk of rats is 49% protein and baby rats double their weight in four days. Yet, another example of erroneous data derived from animal testing. [61]
The focus of published reports on dairy consumption are infections, colic, intestinal bleeding, anemia and allergies. There is also the more serious viral infections of bovine leukemia, an AIDS like virus and diabetes. Issues in children also include: ear infections, tonsil infections, bed wetting and asthma. In adults dairy related health issues include: heart disease, arthritis, respiratory problems and osteoporosis as well as leukemia, lymphoma and cancer. Also, milk contamination by pus cells and chemicals such as pesticides. [62] Both organic and non-organic milk contains 59 active hormones as well fat, cholesterol and various allergens. Most cows’ milk also contains toxic chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides and dioxins as well as many as 52 powerful antibiotics; blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. Both organic and non-organic milk contain fat, cholesterol and various allergens as well as 59 active hormones including the powerful growth hormone Growth Factor One (IGF-1), which is considered to be a fuel cell for cancer growth. IGF-1 has been identified in the rapid growth cancer. [63] It has been positively documented and affirmed that dairy consumption leads to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes and exposure to contaminants. [64], [65] However, research has demonstrated a calcium wash or a loss of calcium and other critical minerals such as potassium, magnesium, and iron from the blood stream as a direct result of dairy consumption starting at 24 ounces per day. [66] That is, low animal protein diets create positive calcium balance whereas high animal protein diets create a negative balance and bone density loss. As a result of such data, many have turned to low fat dairy products. However because these products contain higher concentrations of protein, low (particularly non-fat) products have shown to increase osteoporosis, kidney problems and some cancers. [67]
Nutritional education & mainstream medicine in the U.S.
Of the 125 medical schools in the U.S., only 30 require their students to take a course in nutrition. The average amount of hours spent on nutrition education for the average U.S. physician during four years of school is 2.5 hours. Physician’s are therefore ill equipped to give nutritional advice and/or implement programs; even though most modern illnesses are life style / diet style related. Heart attacks are the most common cause of death in the U.S and arguably, the most preventable. The male consumer of meat/milk in the U.S. has a 50% risk of a heart attack in his life time as opposed to 15% for the male non-meat eater. Reducing intake of animal products greatly reduces this risk and eliminating animal products reduces this risk by 90%. [68

A few additional thoughts:

“Have some … pus with your cookies? If you down a glass of cow’s milk, you will…”…every state but Hawaii is producing milk with pus levels so high that it shouldn’t enter the human food supply!…
“…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. …This isn’t just disgusting—it is also 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, it doesn’t help much but these antibiotics also wind up in the milk and all throughout the environment. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of too many antibiotics, which researchers know inhibit the development of the immune system. Consistent high doses of antibiotics in the food supply, in the people and in waterways is dramatically altering the ecology in human bodies and in the world, this is not a small issue. This prevalent scenario is ruinous to the immune systems of people and the immune system of the planet… When pathogenic bacteria in human bodies and in high concentrations in the poop sludge waste discarded from commercial dairies is acted upon by the antibiotics, the strongest of the ‘bad bugs’ survive, generation after generation, the deadly disease producing bugs become successively ’stronger and smarter’. The world is now faced with whole new races of ‘SUPER BUGS’ that are unaffected by even the strongest available medicines. What a threatening dark corner this nonsense has backed us into.“Dairy farmers don’t tell consumers that every glass of milk is contaminated with pus, bacteria, and paratuberculosis. The only way to avoid drinking pus is to avoid cow’s milk.
Read more at Got Pus? http://www.drbillyhealth.com/

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By the way…

Milk Destroys Antioxidant Benefits in Blueberries

Yum, Bursting with flavor and sweetness, low in calories, and packed with nutrients and antioxidants, these tiny fruits are anti-aging kings. There is however one word of caution.

Blueberries lose their power when eaten with milk.

Blueberries have a high affinity for milk protein

A new study reported in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine investigated whether antioxidant properties of blueberries were reduced because of their affinity for protein. They assessed the bioavailability of phenolics after consumption of blueberries with and without milk. Phenolics are the active compounds in plants that give blueberries their antioxidant potential.

Volunteers consumed 200 g of blueberries with 200 ml of either water or whole milk. Blood samples were collected at baseline and at intervals following consumption. The samples revealed that ingestion of blueberries with water increased plasma levels and concentrations of caffeic and ferulic acids. When blueberries and milk were ingested together, there was no increase in plasma antioxidant capacity. There was a reduction in the peak plasma concentrations of caffeic and ferulic acids as well as the overall absorption of caffeic acid.

Ferulic acid provides rigidity to cell walls and protects the nervous system. It has a normalizing effect on blood pressure. Caffeic acid is also a powerful protector of neurons. Other research has shown caffeic acid has the potential to prevent neurodegenerative disease.

What’s not to like about potlucks?

Many of my SAD (Standard American Diet) friends seem to have trouble understanding why some of my CAD (Compassion Affirming Diet) friends sometimes shy away from full participation in potluck functions.

Most CAD people that I know love to eat. Typically we very much appreciate the preparation, presentation, arrangement, color-play, aroma, texture, flavor etc. of a good meal, we even find it fulfilling to contemplate where all of the ingredients came from; the apples in the cobbler starting from a seed, growing into a tree, the tree sprouting fragrant blossoms, blossoms giving way to tiny sour apples, the growing apples drawing nutrients up through the structure of the tree, while swinging in the breeze, basking in the sun and bathing in the rain.

We think about, and give thanks for the nature-given orbs getting juicier and sweeter every day until their weight demands picking. We are generally delighted at the beauty; aroma, color array and creativity displayed, and appreciate the care and laboring of love that brings such healthful layouts to the party.

The friendly, generous and well-meaning SAD folks in attendance generally offer a distinctly different type of presentation.

The first sensory experience that usually hits me when arriving at the party is a powerful and often nauseating olfactory sensation. This sensation immediately triggers a certain sadness.

Just as the scent of progressively rotting body parts that permeates the ‘common air’ near the meat counter in a supermarket, and most regrettably in many pseudo-natural food stores as well, sickens the sensitivities of the inhaler, so is the scent of ‘heat-treated’ cadavers on display at the party a bit challenging to handle even for the heartiest of plant eating folks who understand what is represented by the sometimes cleverly disguised meaty dishes.

It is well to keep in mind that the ‘scent’ or ‘smell’ results from actual physical particles of the stuff behind the glass or on the table coming into intimate contact with receptors in the scull. The scent of rotting flesh may be experienced as mildly offensive, horrendously objectionable, or even pleasurable, I am told, depending on the mindset, programming, culture affiliation or ‘source-knowledge’ of the person having the experience. So, while some, passing by the bloody counter/table will be powerfully repulsed, many will think nothing of it. It will, in fact smell just like the interior of the refrigerator at home.

But for the oblivious and the aware alike, there is no sensation of smell, no activation of the olfactory mechanism, unless, as stated, particles, millions of them, actually come into contact with living tissue in the head of the person doing the smelling. Along with the particles of flesh, blood and bone, Etc., are also millions of disease-producing microorganisms, mostly bacteria. Everyone breathing that air gets the little bugs, and takes them home, now circulating throughout the bloodstream, for free, like it or not… No purchase required.

Back to the party…

Sure, it’s the smell, the sight. It’s the understanding (Not that any one of us can begin to fully understand) of the terror, the torture, the slavery, the indescribable abuses that culminate in the murder of beings of another ‘race’, but fully conscious, sentient individuals, treated as ‘things’ and then slaughtered while still in the early childhood of their natural life-span. It’s the uncomfortable awareness that the roast is slavery, the cheesecake is rape, kidnapping and involuntary drugging, and the fried chicken is mutilation personified.

And it’s the stubborn difficulty understanding how the good-hearted people partaking of the unholy culinary creations can reconcile the contributions they make to the very things that they would go to war to prevent (Torture, Terrorism, Murder….) Try as I do, I think that I’m unsure how to fully relate to someone who professes a desire for peace, an appreciation of fairness, and an understanding that slavery is just wrong, but who also orders the execution of fully conscious individuals (Over one hundred every year per meat-eating person on average.)

How do you make sense of ‘a very nice lady’ who lavishes love upon the family dog, providing every comfort and sparing no expense for Spot’s care? A ‘vary nice lady’ who would prosecute to the full extent of the law, anyone who so much as pulled Spot’s cropped tail, but who with the same mind that designs a life of luxury for Spot, also makes the conscious decision to sentence cows, bulls, pigs, and various birds and others to lives of utter horror day in and day out?

Really, how do you even trust the loving dad who works hard to give the best of everything to the kids, a guy who would swim an ocean or crawl across a desert to keep harm far away from his cherished children, Junior and Princess, but who delights at gobbling down burgers hot off the barbie, the meat of which is an amalgamation of the very bodies of 200 steers, who because they were born to be raised as ‘food’, suffered horribly in an environment totally devoid of dignity, and then were inhumanely snuffed out at the age of 18 months (Yes That’s MONTHS) out of a 25 year life-span potential.

And I wonder how the kids make sense of this confusing rationalization. I mean, this subject is, and will be, more in the inquisitive awareness of many of the younger people on the planet despite the creative and conniving efforts of the meat and dairy purveyors to disguise someone’s body as a ‘happy meal’ with all of the euphemisms that hide who’s body is on the plate, all the intelligence-insulting slogans, the white mustaches and so on.

Awareness is growing, and many more of the people who are now children will, I think, see through the greasy smoke screen.

It must be obvious to anyone who thinks about it, it make no sense, and it is indefensible behavior to support a system which commits the worst atrocities that contemporary civilized people agree can not be excused. And a system which, more than any other collective, but personally elective activity literally threatens the life-supportive abilities of the planet that our children would like to live on.

And all for what?

To maintain a habit of learned behavior (As eating ‘tiger-food’ and pink-colored, fake-flavored, perversely sweet, pretend-food is certainly not instinctive) which never serves us, and then pass the habit down to the next generation, the members of which are already inheriting the Planet-choking pollution, the super-bugs, the disappearing forests and dwindling resources, the sickness and the ‘Racist’ thinking that allows the torture and murder of some of those who speak a different language and can’t run fast enough.
Careful not to utter a ‘Moo’ or use a word that may sound like ‘gobble’.

If you think that your God entrusted humans with ‘dominion’, I hope you understand that dominion, by no stretch of Webster’s interpretation can possibly mean ‘unrestricted, mean-hearted abuse’.

This stuff is not in the least appetizing.

All of these discomforting realities can not be untangled from the addictions that create the problems, the addictions that cover the table.

The Jell-O (Concentrated renderings of toe nails, snouts, hooves, fur and bone mixed with tons of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or even more poisonous artificial sweeteners and various high-tech, un-pronounceable additives) is anything but food. This fact is verified by simply reading the ingredient list, if you know what the word gelatin means and can translate the rest of the poly-syllabic terms. Nowhere on the package of Bill Cosby’s favorite flavor of Jell-O is there a hint of the sins of abuse, the environmental destruction, and the immeasurable pollution that made possible the wiggly treat.
And not even the finest of print on the brightly colored package will make mention of the superb carrier/transmitting medium of incurable Mad Cow Disease that gelatin represents. (The prion molecules which cause Mad Cow Disease, and are present in most of the cattle in all large herds and factory farm feed lots can survive almost any conditions, and gelatin is the medium of choice for growing microorganism cultures.)

That’s not appetizing.

The Mac N’ Cheese is benign enough right?

Well we weirdoes (Plant Eaters) have versions that qualify as food and which don’t incorporate any ‘melted murder’. But generally the namesake ingredients of standard M-N-C are exclusively the starch (Missing the fiber, protein and most nutrients) from commercially grown (Poison to the people and polluting to the planet) wheat, and some gooey stuff which used to be mostly cheese made from cow’s milk and rennet (Rennet is a coagulating agent scraped from someone’s intestines and/or a powder made from the desiccated fourth stomach of a young cow.)

In today’s ‘cheese-like-substance there are, as you might imagine, increasing percentages of chemical of plasticizers, colors, flavors, stabilizers and such, and still some actual dairy-milk. Actual dairy-milk of course represents every bit as much torture, pollution and the like as flesh, it is referred to in some circles as liquid meat, and this is not a compliment.

In at least one way, milk is even more heart-wrenchingly inhumane than what people call beef or pork because the short life of a modern dairy cow is every bit as torturous as that of the steers and pigs that people eat, but she (The unfortunate milk-cow) is kept pregnant and nursing continuously and genetically and pharmaceutically altered so that her udder is engorged to the point of dragging on the floor and chronically infected. Yes, that’s horrible, but the really sad thing is that her children (And there is an undeniable strong emotional [two-way] bond which appears equal in intensity to the bond between human mother and child) are taken away on their day of birth, never to be reunited.

This dramatically depressing kidnapping is inhumane… is beyond words.

Her female children will carry on the tradition of providing pus-rich milk for humans’ self-poisoning and her male calves will be locked in a cage with insufficient room to turn around and force-fed a disease producing diet and soon (After about four months out of a 25 year life-span potential) become the sin that some people call Veal.

The dairy scam is a murderous one indeed. Even if you would boycott veal on the grounds of the extreme abuse visited upon the young male prisoners, murdered in infancy, but still willingly partake of milk products, you should know that each sip of COW’S milk, every cheese melt and scoop of ice cream is a vote in favor of veal. See: MILK MATH

The veal industry exists because of the dairy industry.

Yes, veal is undeniably ‘child abuse’, culminating in peticide/infanticide (Murder of children.)

That doesn’t taste good.

Milk is in part the torture and infantile murder of the cows’ baby boys.

The milk-cow really gives her all.

And I am strongly inclined to suggest that if you like to partake of cow’s milk (Take note of the name here, it is Cow’s Milk… The Cow’s part is possessive) or any of the other dairy products, all of which are profoundly deranging to the HUMAN system (See: Milk, and the many ill conditions it causes
), that you pay a visit to a production facility. If you do, understand that you won’t be visiting a pasture, you will not see any grass. The excursion will be memorable, I assure you. You will want to wear high boots, and you’ll wish you had brought along a Self Contained Breathing Apparatus, and you will know that you are getting close miles before you arrive, your nose will tell you. Upon returning home you will likely want to burn your clothes and shower for a few hours. I think we all owe it to ourselves, to see where (Or Who) our ‘food’ comes from. Such investigations do clearly illustrate what constitutes appropriate food, based on what we are genuinely attracted to in its natural state.

Everyone is different I know, but the sights and sounds and certainly the smells in a 1,000 – 10,000 head dairy complex will not generally make a person salivate with desire to partake. In fact, I doubt that there is one-person-in-a-billion who would be naturally drawn to access cow’s milk in the ‘natural way’ even from a healthy, happy cow milling around in a field of grass. And I’m not sure she would appreciate your crawling up under her anyway. At any rate, the green pastures are only in history or are illustrations on dairy packaging and advertisements.

Eating is one of the most joyous, even blissful activities in life. It seems to be necessary of course, but can be very enjoyable as well, and is in fact ‘truly nourishing’ only when the full spectrum of senses are employed, as when we use our awareness to fully appreciate the color, the scent, the textures and layering of flavors, and when we think about how the dish came-to-be, and mentally / emotionally give thanks. We are, in fact, nourished [only] to the degree that we participate in the experience.

We are nourished to the degree that we are in alignment with our perception of the ‘quality’ of the food. Quality, in this context refers not nearly so much to a measure of vitamin content or the monetary price, but to the overall inherent ‘energies’ contained in, and transferred to us… through the food.

Whole aspects of our being go virtually un-fed if we eat super, new-and-improved, fortified, high priced, vitamin enriched ‘health food’ but don’t fully participate, and in a pleasurable manner, in the partaking of the gift.

Whole aspects of our being are confused and deranged if we choose to eat things for which our bodies are not physiologically designed. Flesh from any animal and the milk from a foreign species or even our own mother’s milk after weaning age (Apr. 18 months) are good examples of poor choices.

Whole aspects of our being are poisoned, if we choose to eat things that contain chemical, biological, hormonal, or energetic qualities or residues beyond our ability to process fully and naturally.

This helps explain why nutritional supplements can have significant shortcomings, why 20 minutes in the sun will serve your Vitamin D needs, and thus your bone density and immune integrity better than a bottle full of ‘D’ pills or a tanker-full of ‘fortified’ Cow’s milk.

This helps explain why the Carotenoids contained in Cole slaw, sautéed veggies, or pumpkin pie will fulfill your Vitamin A needs in ways that a handful of ‘A’ tablets may fail.

And this helps explain at least two reasons why many potluck parties fall short with regards to nourishing, in a healthful way all [any] of the attendees.

When a typical SAD potluck is attended both by folks who like regular junk-food and flesh-food, and by people who prefer to eat a cruelty-free and/or a natural food diet, it doesn’t work well for either group:

The SAD potluck-ers, well, no human or any animal for that matter will be moved any closer towards wellness/vitality by scarfing greasy chips, other blatant junk food or from any tasty pasta dish, bakery or whatever if the starch bulk comes from refined grain (Flour.)

The SAD folks may also dig into the fried chicken, something cheesy, maybe burgers off the grill or hot dogs (Yes people actually eat that stuff.) Down south (South East U.S.) people really go for ‘barbecue’, that’s Chopped Pig in a sauce of tomato, smoke flavor and almost enough salt and sugar to cancel each other out.

Well, obviously the salmonella and campylobacter in the chicken, the antibiotics, heavy viral loads, zillions of allergens, pus, and hormones in the cheesy stuff or anything from milk, the e. Coli and mad cow prions in the burgers and the Trichinella worms (Trichinella spiralis, a nematode parasite in all pigs which loves to reproduce in humans) in the pig stuff don’t sound good, and they’re not.
The very high concentrations of agricultural poisons used to grow the feed which fattens those animals and which concentrates densely in the flesh, fat and milk is not good.
And that’s all painfully obvious, and easy to demonstrate scientifically.

Even through the thick and expensive smoke screen maintained by the meat and dairy interests, independent, unbiased studies find the for-mentioned bacteria in about 80% of chicken and chicken products (Including organic) randomly selected, and likewise with the other animal sourced stuff. It’s easy to test for the infecting biological contaminants, and also easy to isolate and quantify the chemical residue. There are very long lists of health degrading, highly infective and extremely toxic freeloaders that are delivered automatically with all meaty and milky things, and I think most folks have some sense of that, though many don’t let themselves think about just how severe the situation might be, or they just can’t bare to face it.

I understand that some people think government agencies are monitoring the industries and keeping the food supply safe. Think again!

These are just some of the biological and chemical goodies that you get as unavoidable side dishes with the meat and milk.

What is possibly less obvious, yet also very, very harmful are the endogenous chemical, hormonal, and energetic compounds and influences created in the body of the food animals (Livestock) as a result of, and in response to the intense discomfort, fear and desperation that are the constant life experience of those unfortunate individuals.
One example would be the ‘adrenaline rush’, the inevitable flooding with ‘fight or flight’ hormones that occurs in the body of the animals moving down the conveyor to the end of the line. They are at that time surrounded by the horrific sounds and smells of industrial holocaust, they thrash with all their might, but can’t get free, some hormones spike 150,000 times baseline, moments before the end they loose control, they poop and pee where the floor is deep with urine, feces, blood and guts.

That right there, that place of poop and pee and blood and guts is the very place where a living, loving being, in an instant, becomes your meal.

One moment he/she was someone you might pet, minutes later, a transformation has taken place. Now the hormones of horror, the neurotransmitters of fear and some of the poop and pee and putrid intestinal contents squirting about become part of your body, your mind, your soul… if, and every time you eat or drink of another animal’s body.

Come on people, this is not fit food.

I have witnessed that sometimes the SAD hosts take offense when a CAD guest declines the generous invitations to try a little… I have, in years long passed even earned the scorn of an aunt and grandmother for excusing myself, and forgoing a slice of Pig (Ham) or some holiday ‘bird’.

“Oh, come on little salad boy, one bite isn’t going to kill you”.

Even though I have long been aware that ‘one wrong bite’ does, in fact kill more than ten million people every year, just from direct infection alone… that never was the point. I knew, as I know today that I would likely survive exposure to the parasites in the slice of ham, and it would take more than one serving of Grandma’s meatloaf to clog my arteries.

Selfish, personal welfare never was the primary motivating factor for dropping the meat. No, one bite of burger, brisket or bacon isn’t going to kill me or you, but you can’t get that bite without killing someone!

What it comes down to is that a standard potluck is rather like a funeral, with some obvious distinctions. The analogy however still works and the differences do not diminish the sadness elicited.

The potluck is a funeral for more than one individual and the attendees probably have never seen the face of, and did not personally know the deceased. At a human funeral the air may offer the smell of flowers, maybe with undertones of formaldehyde, while the air at the potluck is thick with the aroma of the cooked bodies of the ‘victims’.

At the human service, people recognize positive qualities associated with the ‘host’ and excuse any less lovable character traits, while there may be no appreciation observed for the ones ‘laid-out’ at the potluck, no recognition of the supreme sacrifice made, and not a hint of dignity directed toward the individuals lying cooked and hidden under spicy sauce.

That seems quite perverted to me, and a shameful illustration of the character and moral quality of humans.

I have never attended a dinner party with ice age cave dwellers, where the excuse might be that the hosts wanted to serve a lavish fair, but couldn’t acquire a bloodless main course because, after all it was an ice-covered world where plants and grocery stores were hard to come by. In an age when we can grow some food plants if we have a patch of Earth or a balcony and we can, at a whim, exchange dollars for any: vegetable, fruit, nut, bean, grain, fungus Etc., in endless varieties; fresh, packaged, raw, cooked, dried Etc., from anywhere on the globe, some people wonder why others would rely heavily on animals to dress (Or Disgrace) their plates. Why do some folks rely on animals to deliver nutrients ‘second hand’ when that system inevitably incorporates terror, torture, murder Etc. and delivers a dramatically inferior form of nutrition along with high concentrations of a wide variety of poison chemicals and high counts of bacterial and viral agents?

This system of producing food (Cycling nutrients through livestock), also is responsible for the greatest share of pollution, resource waste, human disease, economic waste, hunger/starvation and diabolical meanness of all industries.

If it is variety we are after that induces us to eat animal bodies, well elementary math demonstrates that an exponential explosion of dishes results from starting with a large number of compatible ingredients, as with the hundreds of commonly favored plant foods (Or many thousands, if we include more exotic edible plants.) The worn-out reliance on 3 or 4 animal species (Or expand the number to 6 or 8 if you count the more obscure beasts,) multiplies out to a comparatively tiny number of final entrée possibilities.

Adding 3or 4 animals, or a dozen different animal forms for that matter to the hundreds / thousands of plant varieties will not increase the ‘product’ of possible dishes by a meaningful degree.

The tradition of braking bread with friends is older than bread itself and is literally a ‘soul-nourishing’ activity. The practice of potlucking, where all participants bring an offering adds a further dimension of communal sharing. What is not good about sharing nourishment in the company of friends?

This is a component of the joy of life.

So why would anyone insult the spirit of the party by displaying the guts and pus of others who have been denied any and all of the joys of life that the good neighbors are celebrating at the potluck?

To a steadily increasing percentage of North Americans and Europeans the idea of torture-for-food is obscene and the display of the ‘finished product’ is, as my brother so aptly puts it, pornographic.

In some parts of the world of course, high percentages of the population have always viewed it in these terms.

Fewer than 150 years ago many or most Caucasian North Americans would not have given a second thought to the moral/ethical implications of a system which allowed for the taking control of a black human being at birth, controlling every aspect of the slave’s God-given life and forcing him/her to provide whatever the master ordered, throughout his entire life. It was also, just those few years ago, normal to provide only the most meager and poor quality life support needs, and to abuse in any way, the slave. It was quite acceptable to do whatever it took to squeeze every last bit of productivity out of the captive and end his life at any time, and by any means the master wished.

As with the livestock food production system today, the law was on the master’s side and the prevailing social norm is quite comfortable with the system the way it is. We are allowed, even encouraged to abuse, mutilate and murder members of certain species.

Most of the people around us do it too. It is accepted, daily practice to capture, cage, poison, inflict unspeakable pain upon, and murder at a young age, those individuals considered ‘commodity animals’.

Most of us do it every day, if only by ‘contract’… utilizing the power of supply and demand. Being on the demand side of the system is committing murder just as sure as wielding the cleaver, but with the comfort of hiding from the dirty deed and disguising the act with euphemisms and condiments. It’s all perfectly legal, even supported and heavily subsidized by our corporate controlled, Dark Age government. Strangely though, treating a dog or a cat the way that meat eaters treat pigs, cows and chickens is socially unacceptable and even illegal in some states.
Weird ha.

People may sometimes defend their contribution to the murderous system on the grounds that “my doctor says I must eat some meat or my health will suffer”. The statement, while it has no basis in biological reality suggests: “It is appropriate to torture and kill someone else in order that my desires are met”.

Boy, you don’t want to be on the other side of that arrangement! That rather hollow statement takes my imagination again back to, oh say, 1870, not that long ago, it was already a modern world, automobiles, electric lights and telephones were about to come on line. Many intellectuals, scholars, church leaders and political officials would agree that: “The plantation owner can’t plant the tobacco or bring in the cotton without [driving] the slaves”. That had to change, and it did. Well the process has started anyway.

As an analog to the racism backed by our own government in the near past and still practiced in the shadows today, the ‘Speciesism’ discussed here involves favoring the interests of one’s own species over those of another.

Speciesism is an ‘accepted trait’ among humans, who routinely discount the fundamental interests of non-humans to satisfy the generally trivial interests of humans. The modern agricultural system is designed in such a way that many billions of animals live under horrendous conditions most or all of their lives and then are inhumanly slaughtered while still children, so that some humans can taste flesh. Flesh, for which the humans have no nutritional requirement.

By the way, ‘legal’ is not the equivalent of ‘right’. As recently as 1858 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a black human being “Is not a Person” but “is equal to a wagon wheel or a horse”. That LEGAL ruling stood for some 20 years until another challenge in 1879. Doesn’t that blow your mind? Racism, sexism, speciesism are all equally wrong, and we all know that. One by one, we have been forced to face the injustice fostered by various ‘isms’ that society has been OK with.

Obviously if we, as a society had been more realistic, honest and compassionate, African Americans, Asian Americans, and women oppressed through sexism, would have been spared much suffering, and the shame and insult built into our history would now be comfortably less. All the long years that it took to change the collective mindset about ‘black slavery racism’ cost the oppressed ones dearly and perversely altered the quality of our society’s character. Some hundred years ago we could not wait for the courts to catch up, we had to face the sin, personally and societal-ly. More and more people stood on the side of ‘right’ and eventually the law followed.

Tremendous unnecessary suffering occurs today because we are too slow, timid, or selfish about standing up for what is right.

People are coming around, but the sluggish, incremental degrees of improvement leave many in sad situations which shames us as a people and will stain the history made today, leaving us unable to answer ‘why’, tomorrow.

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Unsavory hypocrisy pops up again and again when present day people support and defend the rights of African Americans and discus ‘civil rights’ over a hamburger.

Even if the welfare of a hungry human were more sacred than that of an intelligent being with fur instead of freckles, the fact is that there is no nutrient, essential for human nutrition that can’t more easily be obtained from plant foods. And ‘direct nutrition’ (Eating Plants) is in every way safer, cleaner and much more cost effective than cycling valuable nutrients through filthy-factory-farm-animals. And direct nutrition, especially if it is organically oriented is kind to the environment.

Conversely, eating mass-produced animals is devastating to the environment and so inefficient that it must be very heavily subsidized (Otherwise a skinny burger would cost $20.00 and a steak more than $80.00.)

A dietstyle which features organically grown plant food (Direct nutrition) can be easy on resources, virtually non-polluting and actually build up the topsoil. These two systems are head-butting, absolute opposites.

Without a doubt, animal agriculture the way it is done today, the way that it must be done to satisfy the every day meat eating habit practiced by so many of our soon to be 7 billion neighbors is completely un-sustainable. Any first grader can do the math.

Even the United Nations and the prestigious Union of Concerned Scientists have been warning for years that this eating animals nonsense can’t go on. It is so ruinous to the environment that no other industry is worse, and it is so ridiculously inefficient that ‘IT’ alone could be blamed for all the food shortage related starvation in the world.

Ya see this is a very important issue.

In actual fact, every 13 seconds or so another child under the age of five passes away due to food shortage starvation and 800,000,000 humans are malnourished… This while the typical American/European eats animal produce representing on average a 30:1 nutrient and resource input / to food value recovery ratio.

An understatement is that it is hugely inefficient.

A fair analogy is a compact car that gets ½ mile per gallon and pollutes like all get-out. The redirected nutrition realized by switching from animal agriculture to direct nutrition could actually feed all the world’s humans at least three times over.

So you can see, though I realize that you may not have thought about it clearly before, that this actually is a big deal, and it’s not easily overlooked, for supporting modern animal agriculture:

Does harm the environment more than any other venture.

And it is one of the biggest economic blunders ever conceived.

So probably, participation in such a system should not be overlooked anymore. Certainly not, if only for compliance with political correctness.

I think the time has come for those of us who see what’s going on to remember that there is nothing ‘politically appropriate’ whether or not politically correct about:

Making everyone sick.

Sentencing millions of human beings to unnecessary death by starvation…And all the rest.

I have for many long years avoided the issue unless asked about it, but it occurs to me that abuse-by-silence may be abuse just the same. (*1) So it is with a certain respect for my SAD friends, and everyone eating according to television commercials, that I call to your attention the wrongful folly of “Eating Factory Farmed Animals”. And if you refuse to look the issue square in the face but instead, insult me as being ‘one of those holier-than-thou’, be-like-me fanatics, I respectfully ask what do you think truly expresses the holier-than-thou attitude more than terrorizing, torturing and murdering someone just because you can, and doing so to fulfill no actual need, and with the same stroke, laying waste to the environment, which by the way, belongs to everyone or no one equally? The Might is Right attitude is no more a sound a psychological trait than is the holier-than-thou.

Likely, I’m not the only veg’n who has been called antisocial for his reluctance to participate fully in the potluck/dinner party thing.

I know that recognizing and accounting for the rights and welfare of ‘everyone’ is in fact profoundly socially responsible, this makes me pro-social.

Again, we can illustrate the indefensible double standard with the pet/livestock comparison.
Try it sometime.
Walk into a dinner party, notice the flesh, fat and milk from numerous tortured and murdered ‘slaves’, notice the normality and how there is not a smidgen of remorse associated with the sinful spread. Next, speak harshly to the host’s puppy or kitty, just speak sternly, you need not kick the pet, you don’t need to burn a brand into his ear or prod him into a small cage with 200,000 volt jolts. Just for a moment treat him like a little less than a human. The hypocrisy exposed with this experiment is astounding as the master defends the pet’s rights and scorns your un-called-for abuse.

So, as the potluck/dinner party is typically a showcase for ‘ill gotten goods’ and displays the results of torture and murder, it is not really an appealing setting for joyful interaction or for ‘Celebrating Life’.

And if the words torture and murder strike you as too sensational because you like to think that non-human animals can only be mutilated, not tortured… and slaughtered, not murdered, let us not butt heads over terminology and instead agree that the flesh and flesh by-products on the table are there because someone, who would have liked to go on living, and who struggled with all available might to survive was indeed KILLED!

That’s just plain hard to swallow.

Ordering the imprisonment, and murder of livestock individuals so that we may savor a veal cutlet or Mc-scarf some Mc nuggets is a means to an end. Simply because we satisfy our craving does not necessarily justify the means taken, even if we deem the reward very pleasurable.

The pain and injustice inflicted is not lessened by a single degree because we did not personally know those murdered on our behalf.

…Just a means to an end. Stealing is a means to an end. If you covet something you do not have, and steal it from another… Well most people agree that steeling is wrong.

The active conscience behind the moral foundation of most folks won’t let us step on another to advance ourselves up the proverbial ladder. If enough monetary value is involved, it is universally accepted that taking someone else’s diamond ring or big screen TV is wrong, even if the victim does not actually need the item, yet stealing a ‘life’, the only life the victim has, is condoned and supported by most of the same ‘just-minded’ people.

Doesn’t add up does it?

I wholeheartedly appreciate invitations to social events and like it when folks accept my invitations too. Communion with friends and making new ones is psychologically nourishing and life-affirming-ly fulfilling. Yet I can do no less than care about the welfare of all thinking / feeling beings. So when an event showcases the murder of someone(s) who would undoubtedly have liked to live a long, happy life, that event takes on a different light. It in fact becomes more ‘dark’ than ‘light’.

I’m not into torture and murder and so must do what I can to prevent it… And I could use some help.

Whoever you are, rest assured that if I foresaw serious harm coming your way I would intervene, or at the very least call attention to the injustice so as to help prevent future harm. And if you are not available while a loved one is threatened I will defend your friend or family member no matter his/her color, religion or species.

I honestly think that we all understand that dividing rights and justifying treatment standards along lines of color, gender or species is a poor substitute for fairness and in no way exemplifies what is civilized about a civilization. But many people are just too comfortable in their long held comfort zone (Stuck in their rut), and can’t imagine running with the smaller pack, being an outsider. I understand those fears, and that it seems like a socially risky inconvenience.

But can such concerns justify unnecessary torture and murder… and environmental ruination? NO!

And if we are so concerned about what others think, can we be comfortable knowing that our grandchildren surely will want to ask how we could have so selfishly and profoundly stripped and poisoned their planet. And as society inevitably moves back again more towards a plant based diet out of necessity and reawakened compassion, what will those people in the near and distant future think of our personal choices of barbaric behavior?
Anyway when you come over to the ‘kinder side’ you will not be alone… Not by a long shot.
No fewer than two of the semi-viable U.S. presidential candidates, from two different parties in the past two races do not eat or exploit animals and have each lived that philosophy for a long time. And in a national poll conducted by Harris Interactive®. for 2006, 6.7 percent of adults aged 18 years or older in the U.S. said they never eat meat. The percentage grows daily of course, and the numbers are higher, much higher in some other counties. There is now a trend, even recently reported in mainstream news of children choosing to reduce their ‘Blood Footprint’ and declaring themselves vegetarian. One young person whose interview I digested with delight made the decision at age three; it was approved by his parents and pediatrician. Many of these kids live in non-veg homes. Fairly typically, as one might project, eventually the parents come around. The poll sited above used the word “never” [eat meat]. Dropping the word never raises the percentage significantly as various other polls have documented. And then there are those folks who simply claim to be Veg because it is becoming more and more a positive status symbol. The point is that it’s no longer an excusive club, support abounds. Google the word VEGETARIAN today and you’ll get 41,500,000 entries, VEGAN yields 3,300,000.

Few people claim to really know what life is all about, what is the purpose of life, but most seem to agree that it works best when it is lived with attention to the altruistic and that life should be about life and love. Many people even subscribe to spiritually derived ‘commandments’ which include an outright prohibition on killing. From all of my discussions with, and observations of people as well as my own inner investigations is clear that humans innately lean toward the ‘humane’.

A number of developments however have combined to fool people into stunting expression of their (Our) humane-ness and to commit grievous crimes against the humane ideal on a daily basis.

~ Sometimes doctors (Who’s average 2 ½ hours of elective nutritional lectures qualify them as ‘Un-Authorities’ in the field of nutrition) indicate by suggestion or example that eating animals is harmless.

~ The government, and it’s relevant agencies which are heavily lobbied by the meat and dairy cartels allows those corporate entities to design the graphic ‘food pyramids’ and food related educational materials for the schools… All of it.

~ Billion dollar advertising specialists effectively convince a brain-dead public that “Beef is what’s for dinner” and “Pus does a body good”.

~ The low class blood N’ guts entertainment on TV and extensive war coverage deadens the senses to the pain of others.

~ Mis-interpretation, poor interpretation, self serving interpretation of some Holy Books make possible justification of anything at all, if you really want to do it.

Whoever you may be, I am convinced that if the essence residing in your human form had been born into the body of someone of the opposite sex, covered with a different color skin or became the spark of life in a curly-tailed pig you would want someone, anyone, everyone to come to your rescue in the event that your rights, even your life were threatened, even if the abuse were ‘perfectly legal’, socially acceptable and in fact supported by regularly practiced, never questioned, learned behavior of the masses.

Plainly, pain is pain, killing is killing. Nobody likes those things; at least no one likes to be on the receiving end of them. Sometimes pain can arise spontaneously and no one is to blame… We don’t yet know how to prevent all pain.

But when a steer, a chicken, a pig or a Korean dog is imprisoned, tortured and slaughtered at a young age so that someone can poke at him or her with a fork, someone IS to blame.

That pain could have been prevented. The premature death, the killing may not have occurred at all. The wrongdoing was the direct result of a simple decision. An entirely different decision could have been made, and at the very next opportunity a more reasonable decision can be made.

As members of the Planet’s ruling species, our ability to do harm far outweighs our right to do harm. This runaway ability in fact, now threatens the well-being of the entire planet and all life-forms residing here, and profoundly reduces the likelihood that our children’s children will know the smell of clean air or the taste of pure water.

Legal rights mean nothing in the realm of actual right and wrong, at least they offer no comfort to the oppressed ones. Consider some places in the Middle East where it is perfectly legal for men to beat and rape women. Recognition of ‘the law’ does not in the least ease the pain, OR EXCUSE THE CRIME!
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
~ Martin Luther King

We can never excuse outright and elective crimes against ‘Humane-ness. And we can ease the pain, as we should of course, at every opportunity, only by preventing it in the first place.

With regards to the issue at the heart of this discussion, preventing the pain is amazingly easy.

Simply remove one category from your personal consumption habits.

Right now, most of us are independently the direct reason for much ‘crying and killing’ that goes on 24/7.
Any one of us… Every one of us can suspend our participation in this horror story.

In an instant you can make one adjustment to your life which will serve to ‘Celebrate’ not ‘denigrate’ life.

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You could lay your head down this very night knowing that; no more do others cry and die because of you.

Just preventing some pain, however mild or severe, however little or much is reason enough. Who can argue that?
But it is not a one way street.

The rewards for moving towards a CAD (Compassion Affirming Diet) or ‘Direct Nutrition’ / ‘Plant Based Diet’ are many and major.

Right now, the animals you eat, even though their sacrifice is supreme, provide absolutely nothing necessary for your well being which can’t be supplied more easily and economically through ‘Direct Nutrition’. The animals that people eat do however supply the eater with an unholy host of harmful and dangerous elements which automatically negatively effect well being in many ways and on various levels.

For those who just reduce their consumption of the products of Factory Farms (CAFO = Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations), which supply virtually all of the meat and milk that Americans and Europeans use, personal benefits will be both immediate and long term.

Those who very much, or completely kick the habit will surely realize undeniable improvements in personal health, even those individuals who are already quite well.

Making such a sensible lifestyle adjustment will place you among a worldwide group of thoughtful people, a group whose membership is growing every minute, who, while they are not ‘better’ than others are automatically taking a huge load off the accumulative stresses that so harm and poison our only Earth.

Those who opt for Direct Nutrition (A Compassionate Diet) will be very much appreciated by more and more people as time goes on, as the population grows, the planet effectively shrinks, resources become more scarce and as members of the ruling species (Humans) are forced to produce food and other consumer items in sustainable ways.

I am certain that future human beings will curse the short-sighted selfishness that some people may have continued to exercise by relying heavily the biggest product of suffering and the worst offender of planetary health.

Future human beings will of course, praise the wisdom and thoughtfulness which will have spurred many of us to live in the most responsible manner that we can so that everyone, now and in the years to come, can have their fare share of clean air, clean water, fertile/productive soil and a healthy population.

They will thank us for deciding to reduce the collective suffering in this wonderful world. They will understand that because we said NO to useless, pointless abuse and killing, we made the world a better place and helped to make their lives better. And with each new day we will thank ourselves for reducing dysfunction and increasing happiness and health for ourselves, our children and their children.

Ultimately, the only lasting future that we can have in a NON-VIOLENT one because our increasing level of ‘violence technology’ will inevitably remove human life from the future unless we cure the ‘disease of violence’. This makes the responsibility of drastically reducing our participation in, our complacency with and our support of needless violence (Eating Animals) absolutely paramount.

It is not a difficult decision when you think about it. You either do your only physical body a tremendous dis-service, while spreading disease, pollution, causing extreme pain and committing murder on an ongoing basis, or you clean up the planet, fortify your health, give the kids a good foundation, stop wasting valuable resources… You can kill-no-more, you can add to the love in our world. We all feel the state of our world with some subtle ‘extra-sense’. The collective consciousness running through all of us keeps us apprised of the overall feeling of things in our world.

Every act of kindness instantly and automatically helps everyone, everywhere feel better. And the better we feel, the better we feel!

PEACE!
Billy

PS

I am not judging my human brothers and sisters. I am evaluating the ramifications of our choices and actions… I mean no disrespect by the candid expression of these observations.
Most everyone cares about ‘someone’. And even for those who’s concern and compassion is singularly selective, we should be aware that the best we can do for our special loved-ones includes all of the things that we can do to support the health of the planet and everyone living here… As we are all connected… It is all connected.

Acting responsibly and being truly loving to our ‘personal favorite-special loved-ones’ necessitates our non-participation in unnecessary violence, and a supportive attitude (And Action) towards kindness.

Our loved-ones can live in a peaceful world only if we help to make it so.

Our loved-ones can live healthfully in a healthy world only if we help to make it so.

Everyone can have enough, and your loved-ones can have plenty to eat only through efficient/sustainable food production methods.
Using the products of Factory Farm Animal Agriculture cancels out these key ideals and automatically harms your special loved-ones.

This issue must be addressed if only to help yourself and those closest to you. And being on the sensible side of these choices you will also be a saving voice for the billions of feed-lot, hen house and slaughterhouse prisoners… You can help stop the insanity without ever saying a word if that’s your style. By simply not partaking of the ‘cadavers’ you will prevent tremendous suffering and SAVE LIVES. Even if you make the change quietly and live your new and improved life privately, somehow others will be tempted by your example also to eat more of the fruit-of-kindness and less of the root-of-carelessness.
Every time and in every way we substitute the dregs of death with the foods of life everything everywhere is made better.

… Much harm is already done, the crime has been committed and the very real threats to the future represented by this single, void-of-conscience industry have grown at an alarming rate since I first started paying attention to the bloody mess. And the insults upon human health, [other] animal welfare, economic stability and all that is the environment continue to amplify exponentially.

Up until a few generations ago, most of the food people consumed, even in the U.S. was produced on private farms. Before giant chemical companies needed a new market for the chemicals used for munitions and chemical warfare in the World Wars, poison soil amendments, herbicides and insecticides were not used on food / feed crops.

Until that time people ‘round the world ate meat occasionally and sparingly, if at all. The exceptions were some of the filthy-rich who made ‘special occasion’ items into every-day meal components. These were the people who suffered from disease conditions which now are common in the modern population.

Most people younger that myself have little or no awareness that many folks today (Who are not vegetarian) still eat meat in small portions, and only occasionally. Nor can they conceive of a time, just those few years passed when, even in the U.S. most families had diets of mostly whole-foods, organically grown, and also ate animal flesh only occasionally and generally as a side dish. Understandably, such a different culture would be difficult for a young person living in the U.S. today to imagine. That young person after all, lives in a society where most ‘foods’ come out of brightly colored plastic packages, meat and dairy are components of most meals, and daily meals are named according to the meat portion of the meal. Already by the time I was a kid, if I asked Mom “What’s for dinner”, even though the meal might include coleslaw, mashed potatoes, green peas… the answer was “Meat loaf”, “Hamburgers”, “Pork chops”. The fact that we now take a large percentage of our food bulk and calories as animal produce in many different forms, and at almost every meal, means that we must grow and kill huge numbers of ‘commodity animals’, many more per capita than a few decades ago. Multiply that by the factor of the population increase in the same period and you begin to see why some 1 Trillion animals are sacrificed each year to feed the perverse cravings of humans and their pets.

The condition of tomorrow’s world is decided by the choices we all make today, and the way life ‘feels’ to people everywhere depends very much on how we behave right now, at home, mostly in the kitchen.

No one should be allowed to dictate what we purchase, or what you eat. Likewise no one should by allowed to harm unnecessarily another by his actions.

People on the trigger side of the second amendment, if I may generalize, believe that all responsible citizens have the right to possess a firearm, and to shoot it. But no one believes that it should be permissible to fire the gun when it is pointed at another person posing no threat. We have a right also to purchase and consume food; yet eating factory-farm meat directly kills other people who pose no threat. It kills the individuals eating it habitually as well, but suicide is a right that I choose not to argue.
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Does it seem inequitable, even downright wrong that we, in the U.S. feed 80% of our corn, 80% of our combined grain, and 95% of our soy and oats to the animals people eat; and that we tie up about 90% of all the country’s agricultural land, which equals one half of all our land mass just to feed the steers, pigs and chickens? That’s kind of lopsided don’t you think? If these statistics don’t make you shake on their own, consider please that we always (So far) have enough to feed the pigs, chickens and cows (Who waste at least 90% of the food value they eat just for the energy it takes to maintain life), but we can’t seem to feed the millions of starving humans!

Actually, in a sense, it is not accurate to say that agricultural animals ‘waste’ over 90% of the energy input provided as food/feed.

What does not end up on humans’ plates is converted into body heat, huge mountains of manure, and methane gas, some of which leaves their bodies as burps, most of which enters our common atmosphere as farts. Waste may be an acceptable term because the products of that 90-some percent of energy input which are not used as food are ‘bi-products’ for which we have no useful avenue of application. More appropriate words to describe the bi-products could perhaps be: pollution, poison, disease and the stuff of life threatening climate change.

It is a bummer… that methane gas is about 25 times more potent as a global warming greenhouse gas than is the more talked about CO2, and methane is as noxious as heck.
It is a fact… that most human induced (The vast majority of) methane is produced by livestock animals.
It could be comforting… if we get some cooperation here because, unlike CO2, which lingers in the atmosphere for over 100 years, methane cycles through in about eight years, which means that kicking the meat addiction, or even reducing that vice will have a relatively immediate positive effect on the climate change problem.

Releasing much less methane into our air would of course be a very good thing. But just think of some of the other problems created by the meat habit that might begin to improve as we clean up our act.

Raising animals to eat is so insanely inefficient, wasteful, disease producing and environmentally destructive that:

So far, in modern times, something like three hundred million (300,000,000) acres of ancient rain forest have been laid to waste and converted into short-lived grazing land for cattle. This does not include the countless huge tracts dedicated to growing feed used for the ultimate fattening of the same animals… Every 8 seconds another acre of rain forest is sacrificed for burgers and beefsteak.

One skinny little greasy hamburger ruins 70 square feet of irreplaceable rain forest (The lungs and the medicine chest of the Earth)… interesting to think that just a burger or two will burn down a chunk of forest the same area as the open floor space in the average American kitchen.

That one hamburger could be called a ‘4,000 gallon burger’ because that’s how much fresh water is used to produce it. Much more wasteful than using 10 –15 gallons to produce a potato don’t you think. That 4,000 gallon figure by the way represents only the amount of valuable fresh water used to produce the meat, oceans of water are polluted in the process as well. Both serious, inexcusable insults to a thirsty world.

Is THE reason why the Ogallala Aquifer lying beneath the middle of the U.S., the largest fresh water source in the world is forecast to totally disappear into a bone dry history in fewer than fifty years. The ancient Ogallala Aquifer is a national treasure for God’s sake, one with far greater ‘real’ value than George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello or even the original documents of Constitution and Independence. In spite of this, some Fat-Asses sitting on the boards of a few power-bloated corporations, too many political officials and the likes of the American Medical Association will just let it happen… If we are too apathetic to “Just Say No”.

Is the reason for the unprecedented modern phenomenon called ‘The Dead Zone, the best known is an area in the Gulf of Mexico, as large as Massachusetts, and growing, that no longer supports aquatic life.

Actually consumes 3/4ths of the fish pulled from our already stripped oceans.

Is the origin of serious historic infectious diseases and many modern ones.

Absorbs 3/4ths of all antibiotics used in the U.S., a practice which sneaks deadly amounts of these health ruining pharmaceuticals into the bodies of consumers (And eventually ends up in our waterways) and is the genesis of modern, medication resistant Super-Bugs.

Injures critically balanced biodiversity with its reliance on GM crops for feed (See GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) 100… GMOs as food homicide) and the taxpayer funded mass-murder of a wide array of wild animals… The program has been adjusted from one that included plans for a total elimination of domestic wolves to the current ‘accessory’ pact with the meat products industry, which now exterminates 1 ½ million members of our wildlife population annually who pose no threat to people but may interfere with ranchers activities.

… And it’s crazy but true that it is more economical and ‘green’ to drive a Cadillac any distance than to walk the same distance IF YOU EAT A STANDARD AMERICAN DIET, BECAUSE OF THE MEAT/MILK COMPONENT!

(When a significant portion of your calories [energy] comes from meat and milk, the ‘true’ economic cost and negative ecological impact is so great that your body is less efficient than an eight cylinder car… So if you scorn the driver of the Hummer whizzing by you in your economical compact for his blatant anti-green, oil drinking, carelessness, better tone down your Hummer cursing if you’re having Cow, Chicken or Pig tonight.)

Does this gem of a planet, which used to be blue-green and clean, and still could be a peaceful world, really need an industry that so shamefully pollutes and wastes natural resources, starves millions of people and abuses trillions of its other inhabitants, spreads old diseases and manufactures new ones, coerces governments to misrepresent the people and is literally built on lies?

Do we want an industry that weaves pain, suffering and mass execution into its operations model, and is so brutal that its activities lessen the shock and shame of geopolitical wars by comparison… and which is actually is the reason for some warring now and likely to be the most significant conflict initiator in the future, operating in our world and participating in our lives, feeding our kids?

Should we allow the existence of an industry which is obviously unsustainable but will not quit, unless we opt out as patrons, until every last drop of water and wisp of air is foul and poisoned, every grain of top soil is dead and blown away so that no food crops can grow?

Should there even be an industry conceived and managed by individuals who are so inhumane and shortsighted that they would willingly pull the life right out from under their own children and/or are too stupid to recognize what generates their salaries?

… As I listen to my words, it strikes me that the delivery comes across a bit harsh and condemning. But as I audit the thoughts driving the words, I notice that several emotions of genuine concern are attached, including:

Respect. I do, in deed, feel a sincere respect for all of my (Our) brothers and sisters… I can only believe that we are all doing our best.

A rage, because my friends are being deliberately deceived, misled and harmed for nothing more excusable than unholy greed.

A reverence for all life, and a natural, automatic and inborn drive to protect and preserve it.

An urgency aroused by the extreme severity of the problem, knowing that some of the damage cannot be undone and any more that we allow to occur may be very difficult, painful and costly to recover from.

An amazement that so many people would continually participate in such a twisted program… That leads me to the only workable assumption that fits, which is that the general public just doesn’t make the connection(s). No judgment here, but I don’t get that because is seems like no special effort and only natural that we consider any significant spin-offs to our consumer choices. We all know that everything comes from somewhere and nothing is for free, and that cause-and-effect is always operational.

In the not too distant past everyone was keenly aware of where their food and other consumer items came from and what was required to produce them. The people and the items in their lives were generally much closer to the sources of what they ate and used. People gathered and grew food personally, and traded face to face. And no one relied on government agencies to tell them about ‘food groups’.
In present times, folks in the developed world assume [Mistakenly] that their government knows what is best and designs its recommendations based on what is actually good for them.

Many people still wrongly assume that the allopathic medical community is the ultimate, or the best, or even a reasonably reliable place to access information on dietary and ‘health’ matters. And I guess we are all just too damn busy to bother to make sense of the array of too much information. And when it comes to information, lots of folks rely exclusively on standard media to distil the gobs of info and miss-info into what they will believe. Big Mistake.

We have, operating near the top, the best brainwashing experts money can buy and political representatives (Who are only human); both paid handsomely by the very rich meat and dairy industry operatives. This devilish arrangement has been amazingly successful at programming intelligent people to think that their wares are safe to consume, even healthful and necessary components of a well designed diet.

The true purpose of producing meat and milk is of course, to generate income. It’s one of the world’s biggest businesses.
Enough time has now passed that new arrivals are being born into a world in which most people don’t remember a time before ‘excessive, commercial, factory-farm meat and milk’.

These polluting, poisoned, infected items are standard issue in most American homes.

I’m struggling to appreciate that, now we all get the programming from day one, and that the people all around me don’t really want to hurt others and ruin the planet, but how does one know what to believe even if he does consider the issue, especially when our own government, most of who’s members hide from reality and run from decency, can only be counted on to support corporate interests preferentially over ours.

Well actually the science doesn’t lie, the math doesn’t lie, and the screams in the slaughterhouse speak volumes.

It is extremely clear. Growing animals for food doesn’t work. It can never work in a world with so many people who want to eat someone else’s body and drink someone else’s (Not Mom’s) milk.
I strongly appeal to everyone to start immediately to control this deadly addiction.

By the way. Yes, I do take it personally. You see God gave me children for whom I am responsible. And I care deeply also for all children everywhere, and for everyone. Of course who doesn’t? Don’t we all care about everyone?

But if you are eating and drinking factory farm animals, you are directly harming everyone everywhere. You are screwing up everything that is nice on our Earth and helping to create a future world that will be a much bigger mess than the one you were born into. Doesn’t seem fair does it. On behalf of myself, my wife, my children, my extended family, your children, ‘you’ and all the rest of our global family, I TAKE IT PERSONALLY.

I respectfully ask that you consider reducing your ‘blood footprint’ just as much as you can, just as quickly as you can. Every moment you delay represents a sizable step backwards. Really with all that is now known about this addiction and the severity of the problem there can be no more excuses. What the heck could a person be afraid of? Why would anyone not wish to be healthier, keep the kids healthier, clean up our only planet, prevent pain and enjoy the act of eating more than ever before?

Maybe you didn’t know that a plant based diet makes possible the most diverse, interesting, delicious and satisfying, nutritious, even healing (And obviously Humane) eating experiences you will ever have enjoyed.
What do you say we all cooperate on this problem, which can instead be treated as an opportunity. Let’s give the kids the best gift we can. They deserve no less.

Some think: …It is inevitable. All humans will become virtually vegan for
several undeniable reasons.

First, it is healthier / HEALTHIEST.

Second, it is compassionate.

Third, it is sustainable, the common alternative is not.

And eventually technology will create food alternatives
which duplicate those animal foods which we now eat.

It may take the human race 100 years to adopt a
totally plant-based diet. It may take one-thousand
years. It will one day happen because we continue to
evolve intellectually and spiritually. Today, we are
witnesses to the infancy of that lifestyle change.

By adopting a universally accepted plant-based diet,
the threat of animal diseases which now plague man
will one day be eliminated.

If we [humans] are truly evolving, if we are in fact not ‘De-volving” we must, however slowly, be moving towards a more humane relationship with non-human animals, with fellow ‘human animals’ and developing also a more responsible attitude with our Earth.
The Vegan way is the one way that avoids mean-hearted exploitation, arrests the worst pollution and resource waste, allows for everyone to be fed and live healthfully. It dramatically reduces the generation and transmission of infectious and degenerative diseases, thereby making everyone happier and saving us tons of money. Greater acceptance of the vegan way reduces and/or removes much of what we [will otherwise] fight about and makes possible the peace that is long overdue.

Thanks!

Potluck Epilogue:

Ya know, last year someone very close to me was attacked and abused, while in the company of… actually BY a group of spiritual seekers. Funny, because the people at the potluck were all, I think, well meaning, thoughtful folks who regularly gather to study spiritual stuff and work on self improvement. Part of what they work on, very importantly, is about ‘acceptance’ and there is also interest among them of living ‘lightly’ on the Earth and of ‘Being Kind’. That said, when my dear friend declined an invitation to eat [I don’t know what], someone took offence and simply would not settle for a sincere “No Thanks”. I have been in the same situation countless times, and understand how uncomfortable it can feel for the person who says “No Thanks” when we sense the discomfort and even anger well up in the other person. I (We) feel badly for the other guy too. As the story was told to me, my friend declined repeatedly and respectfully, and tried to not get into ‘why’. Sometimes you can sense which way the discussion/debate is likely to go, and choose to act in a manner most likely to keep the energy peaceful.

But when pressed even more,.. and when a detailed explanation was demanded, my friend finally complied. Then the pushy person and others in attendance really got upset because they “Did not see it that way.” The pushy person (Who asked but didn’t like the answer), with some back-up, felt it necessary to defend his position, which he thought could only be done by attacking my friend’s philosophy and futilely trying to blow holes in the opposing view… In the process of course, he displayed the familiar moral schizophrenia that is undeniably expresses by the behavior of ‘animal lovers’, spiritual devotes, environmentalists, health-nuts and civil rights sympathizers who eat animals.

There are those Veg’ns, (usually new to the philosophy, still enamored and surprised by each new realization of the endless benefits to self, mankind, the environment Etc. tied to the veg’n way), who may play the missionary roll, working to convert everyone in their sphere, and like any other born-agains, can be an annoyance to those heathens not yet saved. Generally, I have noted these folks settle into a more socially acceptable manner of living their cleaner life, and speak when spoken to on the subject, eventually coming to realize that ‘example’ is the best teacher.
At any rate the principal in this story is a veteran veg’n who long ago learned how to interact harmoniously and to find interesting and respectable traits in the people around him… Not the type to start trouble.

If as in the words of George Bush 1’s speech writer, which George senior may have rehearsed while munching his favorite snack of pork rinds (Some poor, sick pig’s deep fried skin) we are to have a “Kinder, Gentler World”, we probably should not attack or try so hard to find fault with people who are quietly stepping a little lighter, and finding ways to reduce their ‘Blood Footprint’ specifically and negative impact generally, during their time here.

I doubt that anyone walking around in a physical body and thinking with a little human mind has all the answers and knows what is right / best on any subject. But most would agree, I think, that when there is a choice between murder or mercy, environmental degradation or preservation, maliciousness or kindness, one choice is distasteful and the other is easier to swallow… One is indefensible, the other clearly and naturally best.

Acts of kindness reverberate endlessly and everywhere as do malevolent ones.

Dietstyle discussions can come with attached emotional charges. Of course they would; torturing and killing are ‘emotion-rich deeds’. Efforts to protect and preserve life and liberty are emotion rich as well. Destroying the ‘cleanness’ of the Earth often has an apathetic component, and it may not be strong emotions which drive such poor choices, working to foster reverence for, and protecting the ‘cleanness’ of our Mother however, generally does seem to be attached to something emotional.

An attempted defense of the violence-dependent typical western dietstyle, it seems to some, can only come from destructive selfishness and/or regrettable but understandable ignorance. The ignorance may be understandable because it can result directly from the sloppy ways that we are encouraged to live our lives and by the cleverly deceptive advertising strategies relied on by the meaty corporations.

I respectfully submit that ignorance can be no excuse when the welfare and vary life of someone is at stake. Some one trillion individuals every year are mercilessly relieved of their miserable lives because some people just don’t know and others just don’t care.

Why not simply take a look and evaluate what our behavior and consumer choices mean to the those around us, to the planet which sustains us, and what our choices will mean to our own individual future. It just takes a little attention. Anything less is as smart as stepping into a busy street with your child at your side without looking.

Please look!

Well, if you made it this far and have enough tolerance left to fill in some of the blanks, please avail yourself of some of the info and resources found in the links below. At least consider the first few paragraphs in: Milk, and the many ill conditions it causes as that nasty white stuff with the ‘way-to-good’ reputation is so closely linked, an so integrally a part of the problem. See also the relatively short and concise: MILK MATH

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Just a few relevant quotes from notable people:

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher

“The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.”
—Marion Nestle

“Whether industrialized societies…can cure themselves of their meat addictions may ultimately be a greater factor in world health than all the doctors, health insurance policies, and drugs put together.”
—The China-Oxford-Cornell Project on Nutrition

We all love animals. Why do we call some “pets” and others “dinner?” ~ K.d. Lang

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much. ~James Cromwell

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein

“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” ~ Pythagoras, mathematician

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist and scientist

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.”
“What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.”
~ Leo Tolstoy author

“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
~ Thomas Edison, inventor

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy

“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” ~ Pythagoras, mathematician

Commenting on the UN-cleanliness of poultry, Gerald Kuester, USDA said “Birds are no cleaner than if they had been dipped in a toilet”

“We used to trim the shit off the meat, then we wasted the shit off the meat, now the consumer eats the shit off the meat” ~ Carl Blenn, USDA inspector

“The less the consumer knows about what’s happening before the meat hits the plate, the better” ~ Peter Cheeke, Professor of Animal Science

“Based on my experience… my advice to the people is not to eat meat” ~ Gregorio Natavidao, Meat inspector

“I don’t eat chicken anymore, I won’t eat it, I won’t allow it in my house” ~ Rodney Leonardo, U.S. poultry inspector

Farm animals produce 130 times the poop that humans do… And no farm or feedlot is required to have a proper sewage system. ~ Just a fact
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(*2) I have for many long years avoided the issue unless asked about it, but it occurs to me that abuse-by-silence may be abuse just the same.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th U.S. president

A time comes when silence is betrayal.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Agave concentrates may actually rank medium to high glycemically, but even if (when) an agave syrup ranks low (good), there is much more about the makeup of a sweetener than just its G.I. (glycemic index) that may relate to the product’s character and quality and its appropriateness/compatibility with the system(s) of the consumer.
Agave can now be found as an ingredient in a host of ‘value added’ and prepared foods typically found in health food stores and can increasingly be found in mainstream brands as well.

Based on reasonable criteria it may not be accurate to refer to agave syrup as a natural food, and it is often not organic.
Fully chemically processed sap from the agave plant is known as hydrolyzed high fructose inulin syrup.

Depending upon where the agave comes from and the amount of heat used to process it, a typical agave syrup can be anywhere from 55 percent to 90 percent fructose! This high percentage of fructose may disqualify the product as a healthful food.

Since most agave syrup has a high percentage of fructose, your blood sugar will likely spike just as it would if you were consuming regular sugar or HFCS, of course, that may be tempered by thoughtful combining to ease the ‘load’.

My big concern lies in the various bio-chemical pathways and properties peculiar to fructose.

As an example; the glucose in other sugars is converted to blood glucose, fructose is a ‘slippery’ fuel that your liver converts to fat and cholesterol. So the body metabolizes fructose in a much different way than glucose.
Virtually, the entire burden of metabolizing fructose falls on the liver.

In a way eating agave syrup is like drinking the other popular agave product, Tequila.

After eating fructose, 100 percent of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. But with glucose, your liver only deals with 20 percent.

Every cell in the body, utilizes glucose. Therefore, much of it is ‘burned up’ immediately after consumption. By contrast, fructose is turned into free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL (thought to be most the damaging form of cholesterol), and triglycerides, which get stored as fat.

The fatty acids created during fructose metabolism accumulate as fat droplets in the liver and skeletal muscle tissues, causing insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). If not remedied, insulin resistance advances to metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes.

Fructose is the most lipophilic (fat-loving) carbohydrate known (fructose converts to activated glycerol [g-3-p], which is directly used to turn FFAs into triglycerides). The more g-3-p one has, the more fat he stores. Glucose does not do this.

When you eat 120 calories of glucose, less than one calorie is stored as fat. 120 calories of fructose results in 40 calories being stored as fat.
The bottom line is: fructose consumption (in amounts greater than what a few servings of whole fruit daily will supply) typically leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, (syndrome x) and all too often a long list of chronic diseases conditions.
Very importantly, fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion, or enhance leptin production, which is involved in appetite regulation.

The problems associated with ingesting fructose may well be exacerbated by any saponin factors remaining in the syrup as saponins lower fluid surface tension and tend to enhance assimilation, there are additional aggravating factors associated with ‘above threshold levels’ of saponins as well, agaves are rich in saponins.

Other Dangers of Fructose

In addition, consuming high amounts of concentrated fructose may cause health problems ranging from mineral depletion, to insulin resistance, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and even miscarriage in pregnant women.

Fructose may also interfere with your body’s ability to metabolize some minerals and/or signal the body to ‘dump’ minerals.

Fructose consumption has been shown to significantly increase uric acid (Gout, arthritic joints, heart disease, and systemic acidosis). It has also been shown to increase blood lactic acid, especially in diabetics. Elevations in lactic acid can result in metabolic acidosis.
Isolated fructose has no live enzymes and marginal if any vitamins or minerals and can rob the body of these nutrients in order to effect assimilation.

Fructose metabolism

Fructose is readily absorbed and rapidly metabolized by human liver. For thousands of years humans consumed fructose amounting to 15–20 grams per day, largely from fresh fruits. The trend toward SAD (standard American diets) has resulted in significant increases in fructose consumption, leading to typical daily intakes of 90–100 grams or more of fructose. The exposure of the liver to such large quantities of fructose leads to rapid stimulation of lipogenesis and triglyceride accumulation, which in turn contributes to reduced insulin sensitivity and hepatic insulin resistance/glucose intolerance. These particular negative effects of fructose are the reason that fructose metabolism has gained recent research attention. Strangely, it looks like small quantities of fructose can have positive effects, and actually decrease the glycemic response to glucose loads, and improve glucose tolerance. No agave fans that I know are using these small (catalytic) amounts of fructose-containing agave.

For thousands of years, the human diet contained a relatively small amount of naturally occurring fructose from fruits and other complex foods. Adaptation of humans to a high glucose/low fructose diet has likely driven evolvement of the pathways/systems by which hepatic carbohydrate metabolism efficiently and actively metabolizes glucose, leaving us with a limited capacity for metabolizing even a small regular intake of fructose.

Fructose is a monosaccharide (single sugar), also called fruit sugar. Fructose has the same chemical formula as glucose (C6H12O6), but different molecular structure. They both have about the same caloric value, but fructose is sweeter.

Fructose is not an essential nutrient in human nutrition.

My major issue with the casual use of agave sweeteners is the dangerous FRUCTOSE component, but there may be other reasons to be conservative with the use of Agave.

While there may be almost no safe and sensible level of fructose intake specifically, all such concerns may be minimized when people are more conservative with regards to intake of concentrated/isolated sugars. It is well to recognize that humans do indeed have an instinctive attraction to the ’sweet flavor’ and that it is part of our ancestral make-up for two primary reasons:

We can benefit from sweet sugar doses in times short of term, instant high energy demands.

The ’sweet flavor’ is a signature/marker of tonic ‘tonifying’ foods important for deep nourishment, long term organic balance and overall strength and stamina/vitality. This is NOT to say that a candy bar or chocolate cake is a healthful tonic, it’s about the hint of deep sweetness which is part of the overall complex of flavors in Ginseng, Licorice, sprouted rice Etc. Connected to this important energetic property is the further built-in desire to hold carbohydrate-rich foods (the clean and efficient source of operational energy) in the mouth for long periods of time, this develops the craved sweetness and at the same time pre-digests the food for optimal assimilation (and appreciation) of nutrients (physical and etheric) in the food.
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For a healthful alternative to agave syrup, consider:
Organic rice syrup (GI 25) and/or barley malt syrup (GI 42), these are actually ‘tonics’. (Tonic foods which can build strength, stamina, disease resistance and have an overall balancing effect on the body).

P.S.
Fructose (when isolated or concentrated) is best avoided:
Scientists have recently proven that fructose, the ‘slum’ of sugars used in zillions of processed food products and soft drinks, can damage human metabolism and is fueling the diabetes epidemic and runaway obesity.

Fructose (generally) is a low priced, low class sweetener usually manufactured from GM corn, and can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease.
A small scale study showed that volunteers on a controlled diet including high levels of fructose produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. The same participants also showed signs of abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. The control group of volunteers with glucose sugar replacing fructose did not develop the fat-encasements.
And from Science Daily (Dec. 11, 2008) A new University of Illinois study suggests that we may pay a price for ingesting too much fructose. According to lead author Manabu Nakamura, dietary fructose affects a wide range of genes in the liver that had not previously been identified.
Fructose Metabolism More Complicated Than Was Thought:

Manabu Nakamura’s study shows that the metabolism of fructose is more complex than the data had indicated. “Our gene-expression analysis showed that both insulin-responsive and insulin-repressive genes are induced during this process. Our bodies can do this, but it’s complicated, and we may pay a price for it,” he said.
According to the scientist, most carbohydrates are handled fairly simply by our bodies. They are converted quickly to glucose and used for energy or stored as fat. “When we are eating, blood sugar–and insulin production–goes up. When we sleep or fast, it goes down,” he said.
The process is not so simple with fructose, he noted. “In order for fructose to be metabolized, the body has to create both fasted and fed conditions. The liver is really busy when you eat a lot of fructose.”

Fructose, when concentrated or isolated is confusing and stressing to the body and likely uses up more energy/essence than it contributes.
PEACE!