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A bowl of sugary cereal and ice cold milk. Part of a complete (American) breakfast!
To clarify, I enjoy milk, cheese, and icecream. I am not lactose intolerant (as far as I can tell) and I actually crave milk after a night of too-much drinking.
That aside, in recent years, I have greatly reduced my milk -- and milk-related product intake. Why?
Well, first, let me appeal to your logic:
"Milk’s main selling point is calcium, and milk-drinking is touted for building strong bones in children and preventing osteoporosis in older persons. However, clinical research shows that dairy products have little or no benefit for bones...Dairy products—including cheese, ice cream, milk, butter, and yogurt—contribute significant amounts of cholesterol and saturated fat to the diet...Prostate and breast cancers have been linked to consumption of dairy products, presumably related to increases in a compound called insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I)..." The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), 2009
Damn! That sucks. If milk doesn't build strong bones, it sort of blows a hole in the reason my Mom was pushing it to me and my siblings as kids like it was an illegal drug.
"Dairy products contribute to a surprising number of health problems. They can impair a child's ability to absorb iron and in very small children can even cause subtle blood loss from the digestive tract. Combined with the fact that milk has virtually no iron of its own, the result is an increased risk of iron deficiency." - Benjamin Spock, MD, 1998
Iron deficiency!? Well, that would explain the hair loss and lack of energy...
"Cow's milk is a foreign substance that has pervaded every corner of our diets... Today there is little doubt that early and frequent feeding of dairy products leads to greatly increased incidence of childhood diabetes." - Linda Folden Palmer, DC, 2007
So it doesn't help your bones or teeth, it increases your risk for iron deficiency and childhood diabetes? The most compelling argument for me is that cow's milk is a foreign substance to the human body.
Think of it like this:
What produces milk of any kind? Mammals
When do mammals produce milk? When they are pregnant
Why do they produce milk when they are pregnant? To feed their baby
When do mammals stop producing milk? When the baby is old enough to eat adult food
So...from this we can deduce the following 1. Milk is produced by pregnant mammals 2. the milk is intended for the mammal's young offspring 3. babies STOP drinking milk once they are old enough to consume "adult food".
EXCEPT humans...who continue to dirnk milk when they are not only babies, but children, teenagers, and adults. Not only that -- they're not drinking the milk of their own species... they are drinking the milk of another species! And that milk isn't intended for them, it's for the offspring of tha mammal.
So, if that mammal (a cow) is not pregnant and producing milk for her baby (which humans would then be stealing) -- we have to find a way to get the cow to produce milk in an unnatural state.
No matter how you look at it: weak bones, weak teeth, iron deficiency, diabetes, drinking foreign milk, or the ethical treatment of animals ---
Why are we drinking milk again?
