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 Of course, given the complete disregard for animal welfare in the conventional dairy industry, they'd probably pump the mice full of rBGH (artificial growth hormones used on cows), and the mice would grow to the size of rabbits. Mighty mouse milk! Now available in strawberry and chocolate flavors! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But you know, it's funny, sometimes the dairy industry is the gang that couldn't shoot straight. Remember that movie? Robert DeNiro, it's a movie out of the 70s about the mafia, and everything they do they do it wrong? The dairy industry has done these milk mustache ads, and one of the ads, when you talk about strong bones, had the cast of the one of the doctor shows on TV, with the three doctors posing with x-rays of their body. And in all of the bodies, the hips were deteriorated with bone disease -- very funny. |
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| Leave it to the dairy industry to come up with a whopper like this. They'd like you to believe milk will do anything -- it will increase your bone mass, make you lose weight and now it will prevent diabetes. But what's wrong with this study? It fails to mention that the results are simply based on replacing another, more harmful beverage with milk.
Drinking milk is a replacement for drinking carbonated soft drinks -- those high-sugar beverages that cause diabetes. It's no surprise that people who stop drinking soda and start drinking milk are going to demonstrate a lower level of diabetes. |
| The prevalence of the dairy industry's dubious claim is an example of media's role as a propaganda machine for advertisers
What I am surprised about is mainstream journalism these days. Much of the time, as we now know, they just make up their sources. If they need something to fill in the blanks, they just dream them up. Journalism is a mess in this country, and the fact that this story was major headline news all around the country just demonstrates it even further.
Where is the critical thinking out there? |
| And the editor says it must be news, because it was faxed to him by the dairy industry.
On health issues, the country already believes other absurd things like prescription drugs make you healthier and herbal medicine is dangerous. We have been told things like vitamin E will kill us, thanks to the American medical system and the researchers who are paid to drum up with these results.
Milk will prevent diabetes, and it will lower your taxes; did you know that? It may repair your car, if you pour it into your gas tank, and you will get better gas mileage because cows can run. |
| So why doesn't the dairy industry apply for FDA approval for milk? Why don't they sell milk as a drug that you need a prescription for? After all, they say that it is an anti-diabetic drug, and next they'll say it is an anti-heart-disease drug or that it is an anti-diarrhea drug because it causes constipation.
If there was money in the human breast milk industry, and you could convince people to drink that, can you imagine all the incredible, yet true, claims that would be made about human breast milk? That is the milk human beings are supposed to drink. |
| Come to think of it, I may start a company called Miracle Mouse Milk, and we'll take all the studies the dairy industry has produced and replace the words "cow's milk" with "mouse milk." Of course, people wouldn't buy that; they'd be grossed out and say, "Why on earth would I drink milk from a mouse?" Exactly. What crazy human would drink milk from another species?
Let's face it: Cow's milk is popular because it is profitable. It has so-called science behind it, but science can be invented, distorted and made to say anything any industry wants it to say. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike Adams: Isn't there any investigative body that can take a closer look at this without the influence of the dairy industry?
Robert Cohen: Not really -- that's not their role. Again, the United States Department of Agriculture, the USDA's role, is to protect those people manufacturing these products and to look after their best interests. So any state agency, any State Department of Agriculture is there to help the people producing the food. Which is important -- farmers all throughout America are hurting, even dairy farmers, even corn farmers. |
| Mike Adams: Given all of this, though, isn't it astounding what kind of marketing and propaganda job the dairy industry has accomplished? Most people aren't aware of this information, and they drink milk at every meal.
Robert Cohen: The most brilliant marketing campaign in the history of humankind -- you gotta give these guys credit. They do their job well, and they spread the money well, in the right magazines. They've targeted women from women's magazines and they've also gotten to Congress. |
| They've donated money -- lots of it -- so that chief, key people who make these laws regarding milk consumption in schools on the USDA, the food pyramid -- it's loaded, it's so supersaturated with people who have worked for or continue to work for the dairy industry.
And when I use the word "bribes," I'm saying they bribed people in government. I actually filed a Freedom of Information Act Request and got a Watergate tape -- March 23, 1971, we find Richard Nixon taking $3 million dollars cash in the White House. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Robert DeNiro, it's a movie out of the 70s about the mafia, and everything they do they do it wrong? The dairy industry has done these milk mustache ads, and one of the ads, when you talk about strong bones, had the cast of the one of the doctor shows on TV, with the three doctors posing with x-rays of their body. And in all of the bodies, the hips were deteriorated with bone disease -- very funny. Two male doctors, one female, and they were all female doctors with shriveled-up hearts that you could see, deteriorated bone density. |
| But the dairy industry has done studies with humans, and they say, "Here's a glass of milk. Drink the glass of milk." And the subject does, and ten minutes later -- "How do you feel? Do you have mucus? No? Great." Headline in paper because they've got a great press conference: "Drinking milk does not cause mucus."
Now, you say that to any marathon runner or triathelete or opera singer or Broadway star, they know that using dairy products causes mucus. They have to stay away from it or they're not going to be able to perform. |
| Mike Adams: Well, hey, Big Tobacco says nicotine isn't addictive, Big Sugar says sugar doesn't cause diabetes and obesity -- why not the dairy industry saying that milk doesn't create mucus in the human body, huh?
Robert Cohen: Well, they can get away with it, and again, these other industries don't finance the amounts of studies -- Robert Heaney gets $7 million a year at the University of Creighton to put out stuff like this, and every month it's another study -- it doesn't cause breast cancer, it doesn't cause allergies -- it's nonsense. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The pro-milk agenda of the story is obviously put in place to please advertisers (the dairy industry). The pro-milk research quoted in the story was funded in part by the dairy industry!
The main "expert" quoted in the story (Bonnie Gluck) is a "dietician," and dieticians follow a very limited view of nutrition promoted by drug companies and food corporations. Dieticians are still taught nutritional information that was outdated ten years ago. |
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| Mike Adams: How do you think the dairy industry, I would say, gets away with making these implications and sort of these claims in their marketing and advertising? How can they do this?
Robert Cohen: Well understand that on this planet we've got about a quarter of a million different journals, and it's really easy to get something published. And, what differentiates one publication from another is the PC -- you know what the PC is? It's not the personal computer. It's the press conference. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 This is more a triumph of marketing on the part of the dairy industry than anything else.
Don't get me wrong, calcium is very important, but it's fairly useless without a supporting cast of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that help calcium be absorbed and utilized and stay where you want it to be (in the bones, not the arteries). This supporting cast is led by magnesium (and of course vitamin D). |
| Remember, if you want to increase your calcium intake, dairy is hardly the only way to do it, though the dairy industry would have you believe it is the best way. It's not. Adding more dairy to your diet opens up a whole other can of worms that you may not want to open (see the section on dairy in my book The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth), and it may even aggravate PMS symptoms. Green leafy vegetables, sardines, and seeds (such as sesame or pumpkin) are full of calcium, and there are always supplements (be sure to take magnesium at the same time). |
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 It's a replacement for the USDA's highly corrupt and manipulated Food Guide Pyramid, which is little more than a marketing document for the dairy industry and big food corporations. The Honest Food Guide is an independent, nutritionally-sound reference document that reveals exactly what to eat (and what to avoid) to maximize your health. |
Mark Sircus
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 So much stress is placed on the importance of calcium by the dairy industry that we have, in fact, compromised magnesium absorption.
Up to 30% of the energy of cells is used to pump calcium out of the cells.
A healthy cell has high magnesium and low calcium levels. The higher the calcium level and the lower the magnesium level in the extra-cellular fluid, the harder is it for cells to pump the calcium out. The result is that with low magnesium levels the mitochondria gradually calcify and energy production decreases. |
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| The pro-milk research quoted in the story was funded in part by the dairy industry!
The main "expert" quoted in the story (Bonnie Gluck) is a "dietician," and dieticians follow a very limited view of nutrition promoted by drug companies and food corporations. Dieticians are still taught nutritional information that was outdated ten years ago. (For example, they still do not distinguish the qualitative differences between raw foods and cooked foods, and they have no education about superfoods like microalgae. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 All I can do is point them out in the hope that they will at least cause people to reflect on whether the "all milk all the time" mantra of the dairy industry ought to be taken with a grain of salt. Or two. Or three.
It's also worth pointing out that in all these studies it's very unlikely that the majority of the milk drinkers were drinking the raw, organic, unpasteurized, and non-hormone-treated milk I recommend. Does that make a difference? It's anyone's guess—my personal belief is that it probably does. |
| I realize this goes against generations of amazingly effective public-relations campaigns from the dairy industry, including the one with beautiful, healthy-looking, sexy, milk-mustachioed models smiling
"got milk?" and warnings about how we will all get osteoporosis if we don't drink a quart of the stuff a day (not true), but this book is about facts, not about spin. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 This is the dairy industry's dirty little secret: tell Americans to eat three servings of dairy a day, but don't tell them to avoid cheese. The truth is, cheese has no redeeming qualities; I call it the king of junk food. Unfortunately, cheese is the only dairy product with growing sales.
The average American diet contains about 30 to 50 points of excess acid a day. How quickly you can discard this acid in your urine depends on how well hydrated you are and how much kidney function you have. The older you are, the less acid you can handle because your kidney function declines with age. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 With this new false labeling rule, the almond industry joins the dairy industry in the "kill your food" philosophical camp. Dairy products are pasteurized for the same reason (to kill microorganisms and extend shelf life), yet raw dairy products have been found to exhibit tremendous health and nutritional advantages over cooked, processed dairy products.
By cooking its almonds, the Almond Board of California will be unwittingly killing its product and delivering an inferior almond to consumers. Raw foods enthusiasts wishing to make their own raw almond milk will now be without easy options. |
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 I took money from no one and actually made more than a few industry enemies in publishing that guide. The dairy industry absolutely hates me. They shipped a case of spoiled milk to my doorstep. My neighbor smelled it and said, "Wow, free yogurt!" and ate the whole thing.
For the record, I do actually support the raw milk producers and consumers. And raw milk, of course, is exactly what's being targeted by health officials in the U.S., Canada and other nations. Anything that's actually healthy, it seems, gets shut down by the health authorities. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| In addition, good evidence exists that milk consumption actually increases the risk of osteoporosis, the very disease that the dairy industry uses as a selling point in its ads. While numerous clinical studies have demonstrated that calcium supplementation can help prevent bone loss, despite what the dairy industry claims, the data are inconclusive regarding any link between a high dietary calcium intake from milk and prevention of osteoporosis and bone fractures. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Downers is the meat and dairy industry's term for factory farm animals who have fallen and died from "unexplainable causes."13 (People in animal reform attribute the cause for downed livestock to the inhumane treatment of animals raised on factory farms and the stressful procedures when transporting the animals for slaughter.) Marc Lappe, PhD, works with Ethics and Toxics, a nonprofit environmental group based in California. He asserts that an estimated three hundred thousand farm animals who die each year are classified as "downers. |
Mark Lynas
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 Washington state's fertile Yakima Valley, famous for apples, cherries and a thriving dairy industry, gets precious little rainfall - and its irrigation systems depend almost entirely on vanishing snowmelt.
Even far to the north in western Canada, where one might imagine that the winter cold would protect the seasonal snows, this situation will be repeated. One Canadian river stands to lose 40 per cent of its water. The Rockies could become virtually snowless across vast areas, with only the highest peaks retaining a winter covering. |
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 And the dairy industry insisted for decades it was better for infants than human milk!)
Of all the mammals on planet Earth, only humans are dumb enough to seek out the mammary gland juice of another species while shunning the breast milk of their own species. And did we choose the milk of a species SMARTER than us that might have more brain-boosting nutrients? Nope. We get our milk from a low-IQ species well suited to pulling a plow. Cow's milk ain't exactly brain nutrition, folks. |
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