Spinoff 30 reasons to feed your kids dairy

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  • AlyssaH87
  on Jul. 6, 2009 at 8:37 PM

• My parents used to be dairy farmers, and my Uncle is still currently a dairy owner. He has 1000 cows, and milks about 800 of them a day. It does NOT hurt their utters. They have high tech machines and they rub idoine on the utters and it does not hurt them. I will ask my sister for the video, but the cows like getting milked, they go right up to the machines.. Does pumping hurt you so much you don't want to pump? I used to pump bm it wasn't that bad...
  

  Quoting vettechmom88:
  
  

  
  

  um, actually, it doesnt. the cows get milked over and over several times a day. if this were by hand, like farmer john was sitting on a stool milking elsie into a pail like they want you to imagine, that would be no problem.

  however, in reality they are milked by machines. the machines are very rough on the udders, and they rub the udders raw. that doesnt stop them from getting hooked up to the machines again in a few hours, though. so shortly those sores are open, oozing, and PUS-filled. guess where that pus goes? into the milk. thats why the cows are kept on perpetual antibiotics. http://www.milksucks.com/pus.asp
  

  Harvard School of Public Health, on the Consumption of Dairy Products (2005):
  “The recommendation to drink three glasses of low-fat milk or eat three servings of other dairy products per day to prevent osteoporosis is another step in the wrong direction. … Three glasses of low-fat milk add more than 300 calories a day. This is a real issue for the millions of Americans who are trying to control their weight. What's more, millions of Americans are lactose intolerant, and even small amounts of milk or dairy products give them stomachaches, gas, or other problems. This recommendation ignores the lack of evidence for a link between consumption of dairy products and prevention of osteoporosis. It also ignores the possible increases in risk of ovarian cancer and prostate cancer associated with dairy products.”

  
  

  
  

  Cow's milk is the number one source of allergies in children, and research links consumption of dairy products, including cow's milk, to colic (stomach cramps), autism, chronic ear infections, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 1 or "juvenile-onset" diabetes), acne, obesity, flatulence, constipation, mucus, and a variety of other ailments.

  got milk? then ask yourself about these:

   breast cancer-http://www.milksucks.com/breast.asp, prostate cancer-
  http://www.milksucks.com/prostate.asp, heart disease-http://www.milksucks.com/heartdisease.asp, osteoporosis- http://www.milksucks.com/osteo.asp, fat-http://www.milksucks.com/fat.asp, zits-http://www.milksucks.com/zits.asp, gas-http://www.milksucks.com/gas.asp, mucus-http://www.milksucks.com/mucus.asp, constipation-http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/339/16/1100, chronic ear infections- http://www.milksucks.com/babyear.asp, insulin dependant diabetes-http://www.milksucks.com/babydiab.asp, colic- http://www.milksucks.com/babycolic.asp, or allergies-http://www.milksucks.com/mucus.asp

  Quoting luvmyparties:

  Milk drinkers save cows from mastitis! No sore udders is our mission!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

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  • AlyssaH87
  on Jul. 6, 2009 at 8:40 PM

• Um. No it doesn't.
  

  Quoting kk_bella:
  
  

  
  

  Quoting maryleo9:
  
  

  
  

  Quoting vettechmom88:
  
  

   Harvard School of Public Health, on the Consumption of Dairy Products (2005):
  “The recommendation to drink three glasses of low-fat milk or eat three servings of other dairy products per day to prevent osteoporosis is another step in the wrong direction. … Three glasses of low-fat milk add more than 300 calories a day. This is a real issue for the millions of Americans who are trying to control their weight. What's more, millions of Americans are lactose intolerant, and even small amounts of milk or dairy products give them stomachaches, gas, or other problems. This recommendation ignores the lack of evidence for a link between consumption of dairy products and prevention of osteoporosis. It also ignores the possible increases in risk of ovarian cancer and prostate cancer associated with dairy products.”

  Just referring to the section I highlighted in pink there: You'd think that if these people are going to Harvard then maybe they'd factor in the fact that people who actually know ANYTHING about nutrition and staying healthy are going to take into account that 300 calories for the milk when they review their daily caloric needs. Do they take us ALL for idiots?

  And on the milking issues I don't have the info right now but I think in Davis, California they have been experimenting with a system that basically allows cows to milk themselves. When the cow wants, it walks up to a shower area and gets a rinse and then gets milked. It's all automated and activated by the cow walking onto a platform. The news story I saw it on said they were showing increased production and cow health. It's been a couple years since I saw this story on television though and I am currently unable to find it on the internet.

  Regardless of how well you watch your caloric intake, milk causes your blood sugar to spike and then crash, causing long term problems with your thyroid, imibing weight loss for many people, or at least causing type II Diabetes.

  The people at Harvard are no dummies.
  

  
  

  

  
  

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  • momto2boys973
  on Jul. 6, 2009 at 8:42 PM

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  Great post!

  Sharon

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  • Maries_Mom23
  on Jul. 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM

• Love it!  One of the pp mentioned cheese and crackers with milk for a bedtime snack..yum!  Sounds good to me.  Sounds like snack tonight! 

  
  

  
  

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  • Korkor
  on Jul. 6, 2009 at 10:55 PM

• I forgot to add it is the national drink...

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