what if i told you that everything you
thought you knew about milk
was a lie we're told that milk is
important for a strong
healthy body and if you stop consuming
dairy most people will turn around and
say
wait how are you going to get your
calcium but everything we've been led to
believe
is a product of marketing advertising
and government collusion
this is how the dairy industry lied to
the world
the consumption of milk began during the
domestication of animals
however for all of human existence
before this point
we didn't consume milk from any other
species except our own
cow milk consumption didn't become a
recommended staple of our diet
until the early to mid 20th century
during the first world war
governments sent powdered and tinned
milk overseas for the allied troops
due to this significantly higher
quantities of milk
needed to be produced and consequently
many farmers began growing their dairy
herds
or breeding more animals into existence
and turning the diversified farms
solely into dairy farms after the war
ended the demand for dairy products
dropped dramatically but the supply of
milk remained
just as high however instead of reducing
the production of milk
the industry worked with the government
to increase the amount of milk
being consumed instead by creating the
idea that milk is important and
necessary
for human health and development this
led to huge advertisement campaigns
promoting dairy consumption
and free milk for all children in
schools
in the u.s the federal government
recommended that children
should drink four glasses of milk a day
but despite
this there was still a huge surplus of
dairy products
and so the government began buying
products from the industry and storing
them
in vast warehouses then in 1977
the government set out a new subsidy
policy that poured two billion dollars
into the dairy industry in just
four years with the purpose of buying
the huge surplus of dairy products
adjusted to today's figures that's the
equivalent of over
six billion dollars all whilst the dairy
industry was
also been subsidized with even more
money from the taxpayer
in essence the unknowing taxpayer was
driving down the cost of dairy
production
allowing for more milk to be produced
which perpetuated the problem of a
surplus
that was then bought back by the
government using even more tax money
to this day the us government still buys
surplus dairy products
from dairy farmers however in 1983
the dairy industry also lobbied congress
to get them to change the rules
so that they could create the dairy
check-off a scheme where dairy farmers
pay into a pot of money that
among other things is then used for
promotional campaigns and to work with
fast food chains
for them to use more cheese and dairy in
their products
all of which is overseen and agreed upon
by the usda
the government department that also sets
out the nutritional guidelines
how can it be right that the government
department
which works with and is lobbied by the
agricultural industry
is also the same department that sets
out the food guidelines
does anyone else think that something
isn't quite adding up here
to make matters worse in 2018 the u.s
government bailed out the dairy industry
with a further
one billion dollars of taxpayers money
simply because the industry
made less money throughout 2017.
so what is going on and we all know the
slogans
such as milk it does a body good
but on closer inspection does this
actually hold
true a meta-analysis looking at studies
with hundreds of thousands of
participants and published in the
journal of bone and mineral research
found no overall association between
milk intake
and decreased risk of hip fractures in
women even at high
intakes and harvard researchers
discovered that drinking milk could even
increase the risk of hip fractures in
men another review of 47 studies
including over 1 million participants
showed that men who ate the most dairy
products were up to 65 percent more
likely to develop prostate cancer
whilst those in a plant-based diet were
36 percent less likely
to develop it and a study following 53
000 north american women over eight
years showed that those who are drinking
two to three cups of cow's milk a day
which is what the current usda
guidelines recommends
increase their risk of breast cancer by
as much as 70 to 80 percent
whilst replacing dairy milk with soy
milk was associated with 32
reduced risk of breast cancer we have
been fed
a lie a lie that is killing humans
killing animals killing the planet and
costing us billions
in tax money at the same time there is
nothing in dairy
that we can't get from plants with the
calcium found in many plant foods such
as kale and broccoli
even having better absorption than
calcium from cow's milk
and why would we need to drink the milk
from another animal
who has to have a baby in order to
produce milk
and whose baby we need to remove in
order to get the milk
and why cow's milk why don't we need dog
milk
or dolphin milk or rhino milk is it not
weird that we wean off our mother's milk
and then wean on to someone else's
mothers instead
especially considering that around 65 to
75
of the world is lactose intolerant
anyway and those who are not intolerant
are only so because of a genetic
mutation thankfully society is
waking up and recognizing the absurdity
and
horror of the dairy industry in the u.s
milk consumption has declined by 40
since the 1970s and in the uk the
decline is 50
in the same period with this decline
accelerating
in more recent years this has caused
great concern
to the dairy industry and so with a
changing market and trends are showing
an increasing decline in milk
consumption
how has the industry responded maybe
diversifying and swapping to plant-based
production
oh no instead they're turning their
focus to exporting more dairy products
to countries in asia the area of the
world with some of the highest rates of
lactose intolerance
and who currently have among the lowest
rates of breast cancer
prostate cancer and osteoporosis
you see the dairy industry doesn't care
about you or anyone else
for the past hundred years the dairy
industry has manipulated us
lied to us and colluded with the
government to make more money at our
expense
the planet's expense and of course the
animals expense
but for the dairy industry their lie has
been found out
and their days are numbered got milk
not for much longer
you