Posted on 10/15/2002 10:10:15 AM PDT by mhking
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:
Sean Gifford of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and an unidentified man in a cow-suit had planned a peaceful protest at the gates of the Grammar School to let pupils know about the claimed hazards in milk.
But they had to be rescued by two female police officers when the teenage pupils launched a violent protest of their own.
About 100 children, shouting "milk for the masses" and carrying banners, surrounded Mr Gifford and his "cow" partner and drenched them both in milk for about ten minutes. The police eventually intervened and escorted the PETA members back to their car.
(Via Iain Murray).
Adam Smith would not be surprised...
I beg to differ. Raw milk has very different effects on my body than does the pasteurized stuff -- and I am by no means the only person who reports this. I'd go dairy-free rather than go back to pasteurized.
As far as bovine growth hormone is concerned, you could drink a vial of it and it would have no effect on you at all. Primate growth hormone receptors are incapable of interacting with non-primate growth hormones.
True, and also, your digestive enzymes would treat it as just another polypeptide... it would be chopped up into its component amino acids like any other protein. But it is possible that exogenous BGH does unpleasant things to the cattle themselves -- and cattle, unlike people, can't tell us if they're in pain. I may be a meateater and a hunter but I don't believe in being cruel, and so I'd prefer to err on the side of caution and keep the cows happy.
True. Caveat emptor. But the raw milk sources in California have been pretty well checked out.
Yeah, I loved that when the guys sat there eating burgers next to her.
. My youngest son ( age 2 at the time )was taken to the ER one night because I thought he had eaten a bottle a children's vitamins. The ER dr was rude and very accusing towards me and called in a hospital sopcial worker ( basically accusing me a negligence ). I called my doctor at home in a panic and he came instantly and put this young resident and social worker in his and her place concerning my mothering skills. Turns out my son did not ingest the vitamins and that my older son ( age 7 at the time )had "flushed" them because he didn't like them and gave my younger son the empty bottle.
It is a shame that all families can't have relationships with their medical caregivers like the one we have with ours.
Soy products are the other reason for this. Soy has phytoestrogen compounds which can enhance the level of estrogens in the body. There's soybean products in all sorts of junk food and processed foods. And people give soy formula to babies, but it's probably not a good choice unless they can't nurse and the child cannot tolerate dairy products (which is probably better than soy).
This ought to cause some lively discussion and flame wars.
Please don't bring the "greed" argument into this. This has nothing to do with greed, it has to do with making a profit, which our country and society is founded upon. It's up to individuals to decide that something is harmful and avoid it, causing the suppliers to change their product; it's not up to the supplier to decide what is good for us. If McDonald's wants to sell junk food and people will buy it, there is no greed involved in that, they are merely providing a product that people are willing to pay for.
When are people going to start taking responsibility for the things they do instead of blaming junk food restaurants and TV advertising for making them fat? No one forces them to eat that stuff, they go through the drive-through and biggie-size it all on their own.
Do not say it is someone else's job to make sure they don't feed us something that is harmful or buy something that might hurt us. That's what has made lawyers rich in this country and caused so many problems.
That's why farmers started using nutritional supplements (vitamins and minerals) in the feed many years ago. Then they used hormones and antibiotics, etc., etc., as time went on because they were told it was not harmful and would help the cows produce milk and fatten up.
The other reason farm animals can get arthritis is that most are not fed a wild diet, they are fed grains almost exclusively, which goes back to your point about hyperinsulinemia.
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