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REFUTING ANTI-MILK PROPAGANDA

Why Dairy Products Are The Healthiest Foods For Most People

Copyright 2013, Greg Dinneen.

This Edition Copyright 2015, Greg Dinneen.

Written and Published by Greg Dinneen.

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ISBN: 9781311830999

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The Consumption of Milk and Dairy Foods and the Incidence of Vascular Disease and Diabetes: An Overview of the Evidence

Peter C. Elwood, Janet E. Pickering, D. Ian Givens, and John E. Gallacher

From Their Abstract:

Meta-analyses suggest a reduction in risk in the subjects with the highest dairy consumption relative to those with the lowest intake:

0.87 (0.77, 0.98) for all-cause deaths,

0.92 (0.80, 0.99) for ischaemic heart disease,

0.79 (0.68, 0.91) for stroke

and 0.85 (0.75, 0.96) for incident diabetes.

In conclusion, there appears to be an enormous mis-match between the evidence from long-term prospective studies and perceptions of harm from the consumption of dairy food items.

Lipids. Oct 2010; 45(10): 925939.

Published online Apr 16, 2010. doi: 10.1007/s11745-010-3412-5

PMCID: PMC2950929

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950929/

Anti-Milk Propagandists say that:

1: Dairy is not natural. Cows' Milk Is For Calves.

2: Humane considerations. Drinking milk is cruel to dairy cows and calves.

3: Cows milk is high in saturated fat and cholesterol.

4: Many people are lactose [milk-sugar] intolerant.

5: There are no essential nutrients in dairy you cannot get in a vegan diet.

6: Many people in other countries do not use dairy products.

7: Many Australians do not use dairy products.

8: Why drink cows milk and not some other milk?

9: Bacteria and viruses in unpasteurised milk can cause illnesses in people who drink it.

10: Animals do not drink milk as adults.

11: You can replace cows milk with plant-based 'milks' such as soy 'milk', almond 'milk', oat 'milk', rice 'milk'.

12: Butter is a dairy product so choose margarine.

13: Consuming dairy products does not guarantee healthy bones.

14: The countries, where dairy is consumed the most, have some of the highest rates of osteoporosis and fractures in the world.

15: Milk is frequently modified in different ways. Nutrients such as iron can be added. Lactose can be removed.

16: Milk can be contaminated with drugs, fed to dairy cows, as well as with pesticides and herbicides that contaminated the cows' feed.

17: Dairy products are devoid of fibre and almost completely devoid of iron.

18: Dairy products can block the absorption of iron and other important nutrients.

19: Most of the calcium in milk is not absorbed.

20: Drinking milk causes bones to lose calcium [osteoporosis].

Propaganda 1: Dairy is not natural. Cows' Milk Is For Calves.

But, soy 'milk', made from soy isolates, with added inorganic calcium and vitamin B12, is 'natural'?
People have been drinking, animal milk as adults, for 1000s of years in Europe, India, Mongolia, Africa,...
At least 11,000 years in the Middle East.
Abraham gave his adult guests milk to drink in Genesis 18:8.
Indeed, Abraham was promised, by his God, a land, 'flowing with milk'.
If you believe that evolution, or even just natural selection, is natural, then it is natural for 80% of modern Europeans to drink cows' milk as adults.
Because in Europe, a mutation occurred about 7500 years ago, that enables adults to digest milk like a baby, throughout their entire lives.
Europeans co-evolved with cows' milk.
80% of modern Europeans, 90% of Irish people, now have that mutation.
People with these mutant adult milk-digesting genes, have almost driven people without these genes, to extinction in Ireland and Northern Europe.
Which shows what a huge health and evolutionary advantage it has been to have these genes.
And, use them.
Even though they were competing with people, who were eating meat and fish, the milk-drinkers still dominated.
Similar mutations occurred and rapidly spread among Indians, Africans, some Chinese people.
And, in the Middle East.
So, if you believe evolution is natural, then it is natural, and healthy, to drink milk as an adult.
Mahatma Gandhi did.

Propaganda 2: Humane considerations. Drinking milk is cruel to dairy cows and calves.

The average Australian animal-eater eats more than 1000 animals in a life-time.
The average Australian milk-drinker drinks 2 litres of milk per week.
If you drank, 2 litres of milk per week for 80 years, then you would have drunk about 8000 litres of milk.
And, the average annual milk production, of an Australian dairy cow, is about 8000 litres.
So by giving up milk you might save 1 cow spending 1 year in a dairy.
And, one calf.
[For an egg-eater: 1 hen and 1 male chick per year for 6 eggs per week.]
By becoming a vegetarian you can save 1000 or more animals.
By becoming a vegan, you save only 1 more animal, than a milk-drinking vegetarian.
But, since most 'vegans', I meet, eat organic food, which has been grown in blood and bone, chicken and cattle dung, sprayed with fish emulsion,...
Most 'vegans' are still exploiting, and killing, animals anyway.
And, financially supporting factory farms and feed-lots.
And, if they eat 8000 kg of organic food, instead of 8000 litres of milk, then they would kill, far more than 1 animal, for all that blood and bone and fish emulsion.
I have met many vegans, who went back to animal-eating because of their ill-health, caused by their vegan diet.
Whereas, without all the anti-milk propaganda, they might have stayed healthy vegetarians.
And, still saved the lives of 1000 animals.
As I have.
Instead of failing to save 1001.

Propaganda 3: Cows milk is high in saturated fat and cholesterol.
So, drink skim milk and eat non-fat yoghurt, as I do.

Propaganda 4: Many people are lactose [milk-sugar] intolerant.