New MRSA superbug strain found in UK milk supply , page 6

Originally posted by signalfire
Time for my milk speech:

Milk is created by modified sweat glands. They filter fat, protein, and blood sugar out of the circulating blood and provide it to the infant mammal. Cow's milk is designed to feed calves and put weight on them in short order. It's substantially different in composition from human milk, which I presume most of you would be grossed out to drink after a certain age...

Your commercial milk supply is sourced from hundreds of different cows and even numerous farms, put together in a tanker truck, 'pasteurized' which means sorta, kinda, heated up enough to kill some amount of the germs in it but not all, and then put onto the shelves. If even one of those cows in one of those farms was sick, those germs plus a load of pus cells are going to be in your milk. There's a reason there's such a thing as 'ultra-pasteurized' milk; that's the stuff that's truly sterile but it tastes boiled and people don't like it much.

There's also another issue: there's a disease in dairy cattle that causes ulcerations in the intestines; there's a disease, now endemic but we don't know how badly because it's not one of the 'reportable' diseases, in people called Crohn's disease. Turns out Crohn's and Johannes' disease, the one in dairy cattle, could possibly be caused by the same factors (here's a link to more info, there's a lot more out there)

thefooddoc.blogspot.com...

Crohn's is a devastating illness striking mostly young adults and was almost unheard of 30 years ago. Now, it's common. It's considered incurable although there are a lot of ways to try to treat it or subdue the symptoms.
The dairy industry has tried mightily to keep this information quiet; along with mad cow possibly being in global beef supplies and 'possibly' being one of the forms of dementia/Alzheimer's we're seeing now, if the truth, or even the possibility really got out, the dairy and beef industries would collapse.

I have Crohn's, I've had surgery numerous times for it and it's turned my lower abdomen into a mess of scar tissue (and missing parts) and I don't drink milk anymore (the very idea is disgusting, at this point) and I find I simply don't need or miss it. On the rare occasion I feel like cereal, rice or almond milk works wonders.

So, enjoy your modified cow sweat gland excretions, or not...

Well said, the whole idea of milk is rather disgusting, though humans are omnivores so not only is the milk drank but the flesh eaten. I have a very sensitive stomach and gag often, even when brushing my teeth. Just reading your post made me almost vomit, just thinking of certain things can induce vomiting for me.

I was vegetarian for 15 years and for a large part of that didn't touch dairy or wheat products and never craved any foods, never felt like overeating, was never ill and maintained a regular weight of 7 stone, never felt healthier. When I was pregnant I was told by the midwife I was too thin and my weight and lack of iron was endangering my baby, basically I was told to go eat meat and put on weight, I ate meat and started drinking milk in tea / coffee and cereal. I also started feeling ill.

A few times over the years I have avoided dairy and meat. and again healthier apart from anaemia, eventually I ate meat and dairy again, and again illnesses like colds etc appeared again and food cravings started and some weight gain.

I have a son and he loves milk, we can't drink soya /almond /oat milk etc because it's made with tap water and we don't drink that, it gives us stomach aches and makes me literally gag. I truly wish soya / milk alternatives would be made with spring / mineral water. We have tried powdered soya milk from a tin, it was actually a large tin of infant formula but the only powdered soya we could find but it was far too inconvenient and messy to use everyday, also more expensive at around £12 for a few pints.

Pretty sure manufacturers could easily produce low cost rice / oat milk with spring water and make it available for people. Would be good to see a general increase in health in the population.

edit on 1-1-2013 by theabsolutetruth because: (no reason given)