
Why Milk Doesn’t Do A Body Good
Considering the amount of contamination in dairy, combined with valid science confirming a number of terrible diseases are linked to the consumption of dairy products, it is important to re-consider why you would consider this a viable food product, or assume that it is safe for you or your family.
Even if you still don’t consider the risk greater than your desire to consume it, have you ever considered what you are investing in every time you consume a dairy product, or a product containing dairy ingredients?
Plenty of sites out there explain the ethical and moral position with regard to the rape, infanticide, and theft that occurs in order to produce dairy, so this post isn’t going to go into that. Most of the content is health-oriented (our internal environment), with a little about pollution (our outer environment).
If you want to consider the tremendously negative effect of animal agriculture on our environment, and you’ve yet to watch Cowspiracy, you can watch that here.
If you would like to view videos from Physicians presenting information about dairy and how it negatively impacts your health, consider watching What the Dairy Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know by Dr. Neal Bernard.
Contamination

Diary contains contaminants such as pus, bacteria (listeria, ecoli, salmonella, stapholococci, mycobacterium paratuberculosis, toxoplasmosis, etc.), bacteriophages, molds, and viruses in cows that cause disease symptoms like AIDS (Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus,or BIV in 64% of dairy herds in the US), Lukemia (BLV), and Lymphoma, Brucellosis (blood disease from brucella abortus bacterium) Qfever Rickettsia from cxiella burnetii, and foot and mouth disease.
Pus
Pathogens
With all the contamination and harmful bacteria growing in dairy products after pasteurization, why are we still consuming it?

Cancer
Milk contains Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I). IGF-1 is the key factor in the growth and proliferation of breast, prostate, uteran, and colon cancers.
Dioxin Exposure
More than 90% of human exposure is through food, mainly meat and dairy products, fish and shellfish
Non-Hodgekin Lymphoma
Bovine Leukemia Causes Breast Cancer
Paratuberculosis
Osteoperosis

Osteoperosis – acidifying foods in the blood, if not countered by calcium rich plants, will
end up leaching the calcium in your bones to reach alkaline homeostasis.
American Journal of Epidemiology 1994;139
http://www.notmilk.com/
Parkinson's Disease

Science Daily – Drinking low to no fat milk contributes to Parkinson’s Disease
- Could Lactose Explain the Milk & Parkinson’s Disease Link?
- Insecticide/Fungicide/
Pesticide concentrations (known to cause neurological diseases like Parkinson’s disease) are present in dairy and not tested for. - A 1988 FDA survey of milk samples from grocery stores in 10 cities found that 73% of the samples contained pesticide residues. “Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 1991”
- The daily intake of low-fat milk associated with increased risk of Parkinson’s disease is very high (>16 oz/day or 1/2 a litre/day)
- “analyses among men showed significant positive associations with PD risk for intakes of several dairy foods as well as dairy calcium, dairy vitamin D, dairy protein, and lactose” – Diet and Parkinson’s disease: a potential role of dairy products in men. Annals of Neurology 2002
Type 1 Diabetes

One of the proteins in cow’s milk, beta casein A1, causes the body to form autoantibodies relevant to type 1 diabetes. Another hormone disruptor in cow’s milk is bovine insulin which plays a part in stimulating cross reactivity to our own insulin-producing beta cells.
One of the strongest studies on this is a Finnish study where researchers looked at over 1,000 infants with a genetic susceptibility to T1D. They assigned these infants three different formulas, one being cow’s milk. They tested the infants beta cell autoimmunity at ages 3, 6, and 12 months, then annually until 3 years old. The results showed a 61% increase in auto-antibodies (associated with beta cell destruction) in the infants given cow’s milk.
Link found in Paratuberculosis and Type-1 Diabetes in children
Multiple Health Concerns Are Linked to Dairy
Cholesterol
The cholesterol content of those three glasses of milk (recommended by the food pyramid and paid for by the dairy industry) is equal to what one would get from 53 slices of bacon. Do you know of any doctor who recommends that much bacon per day?

Since Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) kills 1 out of 4 Americans, you might want to consider ways of Reversing Heart Disease from the Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine.
Acne
Rheumatoid Arthritis

Molecular mimicry in rheumatoid arthritis has been identified with cow’s milk. One analysis showed that the amino acid residues 141-157 of bovine albumin were essentially the same as the amino acids found in human collagen in the joints (Clin Chim Acta 203:153, 1991). The antibodies synthesized to attack the foreign cow’s milk proteins, end up attacking the joint tissues because of shared sequences of amino acids between the cartilage and the milk proteins, that the antibody is directed to attack.
Further Study:
Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is the most common degenerative inflammatory neurological disease in the U.S., striking people primarily between the ages of 15 and 55. It is characterized by numerous lesions—areas of damage—on the nerve cells of the brain and/or spinal cord. The lesions are replaced by hard scar tissue, causing the nerve cells to stop functioning. The nearly 500,000 Americans with MS suffer recurrent attacks on the nervous system that rob them of various functions and senses. One attack may take a victim’s vision; the next may cause loss of bladder control; a few months later, one arm or leg may no longer have strength. After ten years with the disease, half of all MS victims are severely disabled—bedridden, wheelchair-bound, or worse.
Physicians Committee for Responsive Medicine – Tackling Multiple Sclerosis with a Plant-Based Diet
Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis strongly advises that people with MS avoid dairy because research shows a high correlation between MS and dairy milk, specifically because of particular proteins in cow’s milk. Here are three pieces of evidence:
Some of the proteins in cow’s milk are targeted by the immune cells of people with MS. These include butyrophilin and bovine serum albumin (BSA).
Injecting those same cow’s milk proteins into test animals caused lesions to appear in their central nervous systems.
Some proteins in cow’s milk mimic part of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), the part of myelin thought to initiate the autoimmune reaction in MS. This can trick the immune system into initiating an attack on MOG and hence cause demyelination.
In terms of general health, a research study involving more than 135,000 men and women in the U.S. linked cow’s milk to the degenerative neurological disorder Parkinson’s Disease. Researchers conclude that dairy products may have a generally toxic effect on nervous tissue.
Scientific Publications:
- A study published in the journal Neuroepidemiology revealed an association between eating dairy foods and an increased prevalence of MS, stating, “A good correlation between liquid cow milk and MS prevalence was found; this correlation was highly significant ” – Correlation between milk and dairy product consumption and multiple sclerosis prevalence: a worldwide study. Neuroepidemiology 1992
- This finding was published in the Journal of Immunology “consumption of milk products may modulate the pathogenic autoimmune response to MOG” – Butyrophilin, a milk protein, modulates the encephalitogenic T cell response to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Immunol 2000
- In the Oxford Journal of Internal Immunology “Epidemiological and recent experimental studies have raised the possibility that dietary compounds containing proteins that cross‐react with myelin antigens may also have a role in the pathogenesis of the disease. Enhanced T cell reactivity against several cow’s milk proteins, such as BSA, has been reported in MS patients” – Tolerance induction by molecular mimicry: prevention and suppression of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis with the milk protein butyrophilin. Int Immunol 2004
Pollution

There are around 9.2 million dairy cows in the United States. Each dairy cow ingests around 330 pounds of feed (perhaps 50 pounds) and water (around 280 pounds or 33 gallons) per day.
Water Pollution
Allowing for the best dairy production of 55 pounds of milk per day (over ten times what mother nature designed the cow to produce) that means that what remains becomes “slurry”.
That means around 275 pounds of urine and feces per day… per cow, for a daily total of 2.53 BILLION pounds of pollution. Per year… that amounts to around 923 billion pounds of UNTREATED pollution entering our streams, rivers, lakes… and drinking water systems.
Air Pollution
Cows are not much better. The English New Scientist (page 5 -31.8.96) mentions that cattle produce around 48 kilograms (105 pounds) of methane each per year and that more bubbles out of the animals’ manure. Dairy cows eat more because they produce milk. With 9.2 million dairy cows times a minimum of 100 pounds of methane gas per year… that amounts to almost a billion pounds of methane gas released into the atmosphere each year! 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 is a greenhouse-intensive food” and a major cause of climate burden (with dairy a significant part of the problem).
Another major point is:
“Milk is a very strong 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.
To learn more about dairy and the impact on our environment, read The Dairy Industry and the Environment
Increasing "Dead Zones"

Raw Milk is Even More Dangerous

Some have bought into the myths that raw milk is better for you.
Consider the Foodborne Illness Contaminant facts presented by the FDA…
Harmful Pathogen Outbreak reports
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Raw milk has even been found to cause Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis.
Dairy is Scary
The “Dairy is Scary” video is very telling in 5 minutes. If you can watch that and still consume diary, you deserve the diseases you are likely to get for ignoring all the evidence of why dairy consumption is a terrible idea. Although it is presently a socially acceptable norm, there may become a time where it will be seen for the gross practice it really is. The only milk we should be consuming is human milk. When we’re infants.
Dairy Alternatives
There’s plenty of choices out there. for milk alternatives there’s more than only rice and soy these days, there’s macadamia, cashew, hemp, flax, banana, oat, almond, coconut, and blends. You can easily make these yourself, but if you prefer to buy pre-made products, here are plant-based butter, cheese, yogurt, milk, and ice cream alternatives:

Violife, Treeline Cheese, Miyoko’s, The Cultured Kitchen, Kite Hill, Oatly, Good Karma Foods, Earth Balance, Follow Your Heart, GoodPlanet, GO VEGGIE, Urban Cheesecraft, there are dairy free options with Haagen Dazs, and Ben and Jerry’s, there’s also SoDelicious, Coconut Bliss, and more!
Make Your Own Cheese!
Often times you will hear, but I can’t live without cheese. You don’t have to live without cheese! You can live without cheese made from dairy and instead, eat cheeses with other ingredients. There are also so many recipes online on how to make your own cheeses, it’s really easy, economical, and delicious! Here’s a list of options https://www.godairyfree.org/dair…/how-to-substitute-cheese
Got More?
Know of more diseases that humans get from consuming dairy? List them in the comments below with links to the scientific articles and we’ll add them into the article too!
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