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Dear Friends,

It's always a pleasure to read the truth.

http://www.ncmonline.com/content/ncm/2002/mar/0307milk.html

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White Poison ColorLines, by Shanti Rangwani, Mar 7, 2002

 

" Got milk " ? If not, then you can thank your lucky stars.

Because if you do, medical research shows that you are

likely to be plagued by anemia, migraine, bloating, gas,

indigestion,asthma, prostate cancer, and a host of

potentially fatal allergies.

 

Ignoring this, the government declares that milk is

essential to good health, subsidizes the milk industry to

the tune of billions of dollars, and requires milk in its

public school lunch programs.

And celebrity shills sporting milk mustaches tell us that milk is

rich in proteins,calcium, and vitamins--and very cool.

 

They neglect to tell you about the dangers lurking in that

innocuous-looking glass of white.

 

Once criticized only by naturopaths and vegans, now the health

effects of milk are being decried by many mainstream doctors.

The supposedly " hip " milk mustache is actually a creamy layer

of mucus, live bacteria, and mucus.

 

Former Chairman of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University,

Frank Oski, M.D. even has a book called " Don't Drink Your

Milk " , which blames every second health problem kids suffer on

hormone-ridden commercial milk.

 

Sixty percent of ear infections in kids under six years of age are

milk-induced,and milk consumption is the number one cause of iron-

deficiency anemia in infants today --

according to the American Association of Pediatrics.

 

Lactose intolerance is the most common " food allergy, " but

to call it an allergy is to take a white-centric view that

trivializes the fact that most of the world's people are not

biologically designed to digest milk.

 

Milk does " no-body " good, but for the majority of the

world's population,people of color,it is a public health

disaster.

 

The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, the U.S.'s leading authority on child

care, spoke out against dairy milk saying it can cause

anemia, allergies, and diabetes and over the long term, will

cause obesity and heart disease, the number one cause of death in

this country.

 

Most of milk's much-vaunted protein is contained in casein--

which is also a raw material for commercial glue.

 

Undigested, it simply sticks to the intestinal walls and

blocks nutrient absorption.

 

The mainstream media and the government ignore the medical

studies showing that milk is a serious health threat, in

part because people of color are the main victims. The

institutionalization of racism is highlighted by U.S.

Department of Agriculture spokesperson Eilene Kennedy's

statement on milk, that the government's recommended food

pyramid is intended for " the majority of Americans. It

doesn't communicate to all Americans. "

 

The USDA continues to require that school lunch programs

include milk with every meal, and recommend that we drink

milk for calcium, even though Harvard studies show an

increase in osteoporosis and bone-breakage in people who

consume milk.

 

To call lactose intolerance an " allergy " is to take a white-

centric view that trivializes the fact that most of the

world's people are not biologically designed to digest milk.

 

The dairy lobby perpetrates lies to ensure its profits. It

benefits directly from the exaggerated support prices the

government shells out for this " health food. "

 

The government pays over a billion dollars a year for surplus Dairy.

A General Accounting Office (GAO) study concluded that a

reduction in the government price support system would have

netted consumers savings of $10.4 billion from 1986 to 2001.

 

And the USDA pays inflated prices to purchase dairy products

for both the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and federal

school lunch programs--milking the taxpayers and actually

getting them to pay for poisoning 26 million school kids.

 

The milk lobby has whipsawed its way into the highest

echelons of power. Staffers under Richard Nixon were

indicted for accepting $300,000 from the dairy lobby for

making milk part of the school lunch program.

 

Dr. Robert Cohen of the Dairy Education Board, a nonprofit

organization dedicated to exposing the milk lobby, contends

that the dramatic 52 percent rise in asthma deaths among

minority kids in New York coincided with the surplus milk,

cheese, and butter pumped into them under the USDA's free

school lunch and breakfast giveaway programs. The incidence

of asthma deaths may be even higher since asthma is not a

reportable disease, and asthma deaths are sometimes

certified as cardiovascular disease.

 

There is also a direct link between milk consumption and

prostate cancer. Cancer studies have shown that men who drink

three or more glasses of whole milk daily had a higher risk for

prostate cancer than men who reported never drinking whole

milk.

 

The controversial Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH)--banned in

most countries--is pumped into U.S. cows to increase

annual yield (50,000 pounds of milk per cow today compared

to 2,000 pounds in 1959). Milk from cows treated with BGH is more

likely to contain mucus as this hormone leads to mastitis/udder

infection.

BGH use results in a tumor-promoting chemical (IGF-I) that has been

implicated in an explosive increase of cancer of the colon, smooth

muscle,and breast.

 

The antibiotics dairy farmers use to treat BGH-caused

infections in cows appear in their milk and greatly hasten

human tolerance to most antibiotics, a potentially life-

threatening state of affairs.

 

The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that 38

percent of milk samples in 10 cities were contaminated with sulfa

drugs and other antibiotics.

 

Protesters picketed New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's planned

milk promotion campaign with a photo of the mayor wearing a milk

mustache over the caption, " Got Prostate Cancer? " Giuliani (who,

like his father, has prostate cancer) dropped the campaign.

 

And doctors from the Physicians Committee for Responsible

Medicine (PCRM) persuaded Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony

Williams not to declare May 11 as " Drink Chocolate Milk Day "

by presenting evidence that milk is harmful.

 

The PCRM--composed of some of the leading doctors in the

U.S.--has campaigned extensively in the health and consumer

press and led a successful legal effort in 1999 to make

dairy products optional in the federal food guidelines.

 

The dairy lobby remains cozy with most medical practitioners

to perpetrate its " drink milk " propaganda. However, not one

of the 1,500 papers listed in Medicine that deal with milk

points to its goodness--only to the mucus, antibiotics,

and carcinogens in milk, and the chronic fatigue, anemia,

asthma, and autoimmune disorders milk consumption causes.

 

The time has come for the milk industry to face the kind of

scrutiny that the tobacco companies face today.

 

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Robert Cohen author of: MILK A-Z

(201-871-5871)

Executive Director (notmilkman)

Dairy Education Board

http://www.notmilk.com