[Sungirl]

Look at this site:

Not Milk

I know I can never give up milk products myself...but with all the hormones they stuff into cows to make they grow up in half the time they used too....I'd be leary in having my kids drink it until they were older.

[Rytwyng]

All the "bad for your health" claims, made about milk, simply don't apply to the raw, organic stuff. Actually, the hormones injected into a cow can't get into the milk anyway, but, for the sake of the animal, organic farmers avoid hormones.

Since I switched to all-raw milk and butter, I haven't had to use one sick day. There's apparently something in raw dairy fat that boosts the immune system. My wife was totally unable to drink milk or eat cheese til she switched to the raw stuff, now she can digest it just fine.. probably due to the enzyme content which is preserved by avoiding pasteruization.

Milk, in its natural state, is good for you. And it's great for growing children, as evidenced by 8000 years of post-Neolithic European history -- natural selection favored the milk drinkers causing the lactase persistance gene to become common among whites. This wouldn't have happened if milk was harmful -- selection would have DISfavored milk users.

[PleaseNoMore]

I agree. It isn't that the milk itself is full of hormones naturally but rather the feeds and such that the cows ingest are treated with hormones and such. During digestion the hormones are passed through to the milk.

Two years ago when my daughter was 7 I took her to the dr because of a painful "lump" in her right breast. Of course I was thinking the worst and imagining all sorts of things wrong with her. After an examination he concluded that she was developing breasts. He was going to diagnose it as precocious puberty ( premature ) but he said the standards for that has been lowered to 6 years old. She was "too old" for that diagnosis. He also said that it was a wonder that boys today could grow a mustache because of the hormones in our foods. So here I am today with a 9 year old LITTLE girl with breasts that rival a 14 or 15 year old's. I am now feeding my children organic milk.

[tiki]

Well, I'd say that you would be depriving your child of lifetime health if you withheld milk and milk products. There is some risk in everything we consume but the benefits far outweigh the costs. Our food, in the United States, is without one doubt, safer than it has been in any time throughout time.

People run around being afraid of everything even as we live longer and healthier lives than ever before. That's the whole thing with these agendas, they're out there to cause fear in people like you to acheive a political end that really has nothing to do with your safety but their own power issues.

[Tennessee_Bob]

You've reproduced?

Oh, Lord, it's the End Times.