One of the purest images in nature is that of a newborn infant growing and gaining health from natural Mother's Milk. And that isn't the only image of milk ingrained into our collective unconscious. Milk is almost universally seen as a healthy, natural and nourishing beverage. However, we need to dig in a bit deeper and see milk dangers for what they are.
Like the rest of the multi-billion dollar food industry, the dairy industry is corrupt and passing along dangerous milk; all the while using the time-honored view of milk as being anything but bad for us.
How is Today's Milk Bad
Don't jump to judgment here. Milk has not always been as bad as it is today. But you have to stop and consider the source from which our dairy products are coming. While the cows that accompanied mankind for much of our history were fed pure, natural, and wholesome feed, the same cannot be said today.
The dairy cows used to produce milk today are fed with feed that is contrary to what is best for their health. In turn, the milk that these cows produce is every bit as polluted, stripped of nutrients and unhealthy as any of the fast food you could pick up off of the dollar menu today.
Think of the source of any body of water. If the source of a river is polluted, it only follows suit that the river would be polluted to, right? Cows are not raised so much in the picturesque dairy fields that you see on the carton's picture, as they are raised on brutal, polluted killing fields for profit.
Milk dangers are very real, and it is all due to the way these precious animals are raised, live their lives and ultimately die for our convenience.
Potential Health Problems
Because today's dairy cows are fed such poor diets, their milk is rife with pollutants and sub-par nutrients. Here are a few of the health problems caused by this terribly unnatural milk:
- Heart disease
- High blood pressure
- Edema
- Unnatural genetic mutations (cancer)
These are just the tip of the iceberg where milk dangers are concerned. If you don't have access to milk from cows that were raised and fed properly, then you have no business putting it into your body. End of story.
The Emotional Torment
So far we've only discussed the way that cows are fed improperly; resulting in serious milk dangers. Time and space prohibit going into great detail about how emotionally scarred these poor animals are. Even if you're not an animal-rights activist, you have to appreciate the fact that these dairy cows are real, living, feeling creatures of God.
Dairy cows are pumped full of dangerous hormones, live their lives in horrid, inhumane habitats and are stripped of their young well before it is beneficial. The end result is an animal that is not only physically unhealthy, but extremely stressed and emotionally scarred.
Imagine letting a newborn infant drink mother's milk from a crack-addicted, psychologically unstable, malnourished mother. You would never let a baby face those kinds of milk dangers, would you?
Well that is precisely what we are doing to ourselves when we drink milk found on supermarket shelves today. Kind of makes you rethink the whole “Got Milk?” campaign, right? If that's the milk they want us to drink and give to our kids, I'd be proud to answer that question with a resounding “NO!”
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