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>From: Uttama Caitanya das
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>Subject: [imnews] Problem with drinking commercial
milk - please clarify
>Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:39:15 +0800
>
>hare krsna
>
>the following was received from a devotee in usa
>----------------------------
>
>Dr Steven Gross, who is the co-chair of the Illinois
Humane PAC ( Political Action Committee) spoke
eloquently on the subject of "Raising of Dairy cows in
the USA." What an eye-opener! The gist of his speech
follows. Read-on!!
>
>A cow by nature is a grazing animal who needs to
ingest huge quantities of grass, typically walking 4-5
miles during the day. Today's factory dairy farms seek
to minimize human overview, and often confine dairy
cows to their stalls. This confinement causes several
problems. The cow, being fed a concentrated diet of
high protein to stimulate milk production develops
several diseases. The most common metabolic diseases
are ketosis and laminitis, which causes lameness.
These diseases are extremely stressful to the cow and
often lead to the cow being sent to slaughter since no
individual care is typically provided.
>
>Instead of producing twenty-five pounds of milk per
day, the factory farmer pushes the cow to produce one
hundred pounds of milk. Pushing the cow for production
beyond her biological limit causes other diseases such
as, mastitis, a painful bacterial infection of the
udders and milk fever, a disease that is the result of
an imbalance in calcium and phosphorus.
>
>Milk production is pushed even further when a
significant number of dairies give their cows bovine
growth hormone and sub-therapeutic dosages of
antibiotics. These hormones are then ingested by
humans and increase the probability of both breast and
prostate cancer. Milk also contains insulin-like
growth hormone, which is chemically identical to human
growth hormone. The ingestion of this hormone is
linked not only to cancer but to other chronic
diseases as well as contributing to an early onset of
puberty. For those of you interested in more details
about the health impact of milk and dairy products, it
is suggested that you read Eat Right, Live Longer by
Neal Barnard, M.D. or Milk: the Deadly Poison by
Robert Cohen.
>
>The dairy industry likes to project the image of
Bessy the contented cow, grazing on grass, enjoying
the sun and fresh air. As noted above, most cows are
raised in confinement, most cows do not graze on
grass, most do not see the sun, few enjoy fresh air,
and in addition many cows are mutilated by having
their tails cut off without anaesthesia, which causes
both short-term pain and long-term suffering because
cows use their tails to deal with the many flies that
are part and parcel of factory farm life.
>
>Contented Bessy never reaches old age, which is
twenty plus years. Instead, she is sent to slaughter
somewhere after her third lactation, when she is
around five years of age. A significant number of
dairy cows are so lame or so devastated by milk fever,
that they are unable to walk. Unfortunately, these
gentle creatures, are pulled on to trucks by wenches
attached to their legs. This process is excruciatingly
painful, and causes additional damage to the cow. In
most states this process is legal. Thankfully, in
Illinois and California, this process is illegal.
>
>In order to replace the cows that are sent to
slaughter as well as to have continuous milk
production, cows are impregnated every year. Usually,
half the calves are female and most are used as
replacements for their soon-to-be-slaughtered mothers.
Calves, who normally suckle between seven and eight
months, are given either no time to suckle or a
maximum of three days to suckle. The female calf is
taken away from the mother and placed alone in a hut.
The calf cannot suckle nor does it receive critical
social interaction that is necessary for normal
development. Mothers typically vocalize their distress
and become depressed after their calf is taken away.
>
>Male calves are either killed within hours or a few
days after birth and sold as Bob veal, usually for
frozen dinners. Other male calves are raised for meat,
and about a million plus male calves are raised for
veal. The male calf being raised for veal is tethered
by the head, to an extremely small crate. The calf
cannot turn around, groom itself, walk, or otherwise
engage in most of its critical species-specific
behaviours. Additionally, many veal farmers raise the
calves in the dark and feed it a liquid diet
containing no iron, therefore causing the calf to
suffer from anaemia. The air that the calf breathes is
filled with the smell of excrement. The calf suffers
from constant diarrhoea, extreme depression, and the
atrophying of its muscles. Within a few months the
calf will more than double in size, and be sent to
slaughter. The first time the calf sees daylight or
smells fresh air is enroute to the slaughterhouse!
>
>What can we do to change this horrible situation?
First, learn that there are much better sources of
calcium than milk. The healthiest calcium sources are
greens and beans. In addition, calcium from such
greens as broccoli is much better absorbed than
calcium from an animal source. We need about 400-500
milligrams of calcium per day, and a cup of broccoli
has 178 milligrams of calcium. Second, delicious milk
substitutes are readily available in most grocery
stores. Soy milks in all flavours, most of which are
enriched with additional vitamins, rice milk, which is
sweeter, and other grain milks are all excellent
substitutes that are better for your health and reduce
suffering.
>
>I admire the tenacity and courage of Dr. Gross in
this lopsided battle, where milk is touted as the
perfect food and celebrities in their ignorance
endorse it! See the PERM website (perm.org): (
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) and
find out what they have to say!
>
>Mr A.NO. Sal, president of Hari Om Mender, and other
officers fully endorsed the ideas and information
presented by Dr Gross and encouraged the congregation
(some of the audience had tears in their eyes unaware
of all this) to give up milk and other dairy products-
perhaps for one day a month, graduating to one day a
week, and eventually giving it up entirely.
>
>Dr. Gross is a selfless individual and spends hours
and hours for this God's work, fighting for the mute
and voiceless animals that share Mother Earth with us
humans and are treated so very, badly!
>
>One eminent vegetarian said, " If animals could speak
and were asked what does the devil look like, they
would tell us humans, "Go look in the mirror." We are
not steward's of the Lords creation as He intended us
to be, but are the evil tyrants.
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