I agree that it's not particularly //good// for humans, or any creature aside from young ones, and mainly calves. Even if I didn't care about the extreme cruelty involved in most dairy farming, I wouldn't want to be drinking the antibiotic and hormone laden product that is the result of factory farming practices. One thing is sure....humans wanting to drink cow's milk, is definitely "detrimental" to the well-being of the cows who spend a life of suffering to provide it.

by Anonymous 7 years ago

I go through about a quart a week between cooking and drinking. That's about 2.3 oz per day per person for me and my wife. I don't think I'm gonna worry about it.

by Anonymous 7 years ago

Nutritionists are not recommending milk as a primary source of calcium. Cow's milk contains much more phosphorus than humans need. Humans have only three good sources of complete protein: eggs, milk, and meat.

by Anonymous 7 years ago

This complete protein trend is nonsense. We can get all the protein we need on a plant based diet.

by Anonymous 7 years ago

Sure you can. It involves an awful lot of arithmetic, because plants don't make complete protein. The human body needs eight kinds of protein in balanced proportions. If you get more of one kind than the balance requires, the excess is burned as ordinary but expensive calories.

by Anonymous 7 years ago

I've never seen vegetarians worry much about protein. In fact, vegetarians tend to be healthier than non-vegetarians. "The natural cytotoxicity of peripheral blood lymphocytes was measured using a chromium-release test. Cytotoxic activity, which is expressed as lytic units, was significantly higher in vegetarians than in their omnivorous controls by a factor of 2. The total number of white blood cells, lymphocytes, and other subpopulations did not differ between vegetarians and nonvegetarians. The enhanced natural cytotoxicity may be one of the factors contributing to the lower cancer risk shown by vegetarians." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2771803

by Anonymous 7 years ago

Wait, what? You are offering academic studies to support a comment espousing ignorance. Is that correct?

by Anonymous 7 years ago

They say we like cow's milk because it's the one that resembles human's milk in fat the most

by Anonymous 7 years ago

Hmmm, I accidentally posted some disreputable sources in this thread years ago. I figure it is best to try to correct my own misinformation. At the time I simply believed the sources and what they said. Now I am not sure what to do? A. Debunk my own arguments? B. Delete the misinformation? C. Both A and B? I don't wish to spread misinformation but it has been over five years an sometimes people make mistakes and don't realize it for years. First, most importantly I posted a propaganda video from nutritionfacts. //"Overall, we rate NutritionFacts.org a moderate Pseudoscience source due to exaggerated health claims." // https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nutritionfacts-org/ The video has been disproved. //"Medical errors are NOT the third leading cause of death in the US. For that to be true, one-third to one-half of all hospital deaths would have to be due to medical errors."// David Gorski Now that I posted this I plan to delete the erroneous video, sorry. I hope I have time to debunk and delete more misinformation I accidentally spread. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-errors-really-the-third-most-common-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s-2019-edition/

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Another bad source I used, again I apologize. I was under the influence of misinformation. I was going through a rough time in my life at the time. The pcrm is a quack propaganda website run by Neal Barnard. See thequackwatch article below. Please let me know if you spot any more misinformation I have posted so I can both debunk and delete the accidental errors. // "In NCAHF’s view, PCRM is a propaganda machine whose press conferences are charades for disguising its ideology as news events." // // "I have no way of knowing with absolute certainty whether Barnard is as dangerous a fool as he sounds, but I suspect so. He and Freston promulgate a dangerously over-simplified view of diabetes. " // This was not easy for me to error check my previous posts and go against my ideology somewhat. Yet, I think it makes animal right activist look bad if they spread misinformation and propaganda and overall hurts animals in the long term. So I am doing my best to clean up my own mess. https://quackwatch.org/ncahf/articles/o-r/pcrm/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/medicine-is-hard-and-should-be-practiced-with-caution/

by Anonymous 2 years ago