Got milk? … and pus, blood, shit and chemicals?

I personally find milk creepy. I guess it’s the texture and the source that does it. Apparently I am not the suck my beverage out of an animal type of guy. That’s why I use rice milk on my Peanut Butter Panda Puffs. Anyways, today’s point is very simple: milk sucks. That is the obvious message of milksucks.com where you can find such charming facts as,

A dairy cow produces 120 pounds of waste every day — equal to that of two dozen people, but with no toilets, sewers, or treatment plants.

In the Central Valley of California, the cows produce as much excrement as a city of 21 million people, and even a smallish farm of 200 cows will produce as much nitrogen as in the sewage from a community of 5,000 to 10,000 people.

Dairy products are a health hazard. They contain no fiber or complex carbohydrates and are laden with saturated fat and cholesterol. They are contaminated with cow’s blood and pus and are frequently contaminated with pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics. Dairy products are linked to allergies, constipation, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.

The average American consumes more than 550 pounds of dairy products annually, which is 40 percent of the bulk of the food we eat.

Maybe if dairy-free isn’t your style you could at least look for opportunities to reduce your dairy intake a bit? If you haven’t stopped reading yet because you don’t want to read negative crap about something you like, then you may as well continue on to their site.

- shawn

[source: milk sucks]