ALL'S NOT WELL WITH DAIRY MILK

From: Dr. Jai Maharaj (usenet_at_mantra.com)
Date: 09/01/04

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    All's not well with dairy milk

    By Maneka Gandhi
    Op-Ed
    The Pioneer
    Wednesday, September 1, 2004

    Let me tell you a few facts about the dairy industry in India. It
    did not come in with Lord Krishna! It was actually started by the
    British in India. Today, all our advertising and Government
    positions on milk are taken directly from United States. It is an
    unpalatable fact that the dairy industry is a monster destroying so
    many lives.

    But since the industry runs on vast political patronage and since
    it is impossible to convince politicians of something that is so
    patently obvious, I would like the doctors and bankers (who give
    free funding under various schemes to the unemployed to open
    dairies) to understand what they are doing and how much foreign
    influence has corrupted us.

    Both the American and Indian governments declare that milk is
    essential to good health and subsidise the dairy industry to the
    tune of billions of dollars. In America, it is made compulsory to
    give milk to children in public schools. They proclaim that milk is
    rich in proteins and calcium. But they forget to tell you the
    downside. Apart from the enormous environmental impact and the
    suffering of the animal involved, the health effects of milk are
    being decried by mainstream doctors. Researches show that the
    consumption of milk may cause anaemia, migraine, bloating, gas,
    indigestion, asthma, prostate cancer, and a host of potentially
    fatal allergies, especially if you are a coloured person.

    Chairman of Paediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, Frank Oski,
    MD, wrote a book, Don't Drink Your Milk, in which he says every
    second health problem kids suffer is due to milk. 60 per cent of
    ear infections in kids under six years of age are milk induced and
    milk consumption is the number one cause for iron-deficiency in
    infants today, according to the American Association of
    Paediatrics.

    Dr Benjamin Spock, the US's leading authority on child care, spoke
    out against feeding "cow's glue" to children, saying it can cause
    anaemia, allergies, and diabetes and obesity and heart disease.
    Most of milk's much-vaunted protein is contained in casein - which
    is also a raw material for commercial glue.

    Undigested, it sticks to the intestinal wall and blocks nutrient
    absorption. Havard studies show an increase in osteoporosis in
    people who consume milk.

    Milk has now become a racial issue. I went to a site called
    "MooMilk.com" run by the milk industry. In question and answer
    form, it is clearly written in 12 point type about all the
    wonderful things that milk does, and gives you patently wrong
    statistics on practically every issue. However, it reluctantly
    agrees that you can get enough calcium and proteins without
    drinking milk, but gives the comparison with eating broccoli and
    turnips, the two vegetables most disliked by children in America).

    When it comes to the question whether "coloured" people are
    intolerant to it, the answer is in six point type, barely readable:
    "Milk allergies are an abnormal response by the body to milk
    protein. Lactose intolerance is the body's inability to digest
    lactose, the sugar in milk. Allergies to milk are rare, while
    lactose intolerance is not. A food allergy is an abnormal response
    of the body's immune system to ordinarily harmless foods or
    ingredients - in this case, milk protein." An estimated one to
    three per cent of infants and young children are allergic to milk,
    but usually outgrow it by two or three years of age. If milk
    allergy is suspected, consult a certified allergist for diagnosis.
    Those diagnosed with milk allergy should avoid the consumption of
    dairy products.

    Lactose intolerance refers to the symptoms experienced by
    individuals having low levels of the enzyme (lactase) necessary for
    the breakdown lactose. It is most prevalent among coloured people.
    Infants are born with high levels of lactase enabling them to
    digest it in human milk. "90 per cent of African Americans, Latin
    Americans, Asians and Southern Europeans lack the genes necessary
    to digest lactose. The milk industry's response is classic; they
    have launched new campaigns arguing that non-Whites can digest milk
    if they take in small sips during the day! The pharmaceutical
    industry is the only beneficiary; $450 million a year worth of
    products are sold to minimise the effects of lactose intolerance.

    For the vast majority of the world's coloured people, milk is a
    public health disaster. The mainstream media and governments ignore
    the medical studies. The institutionalisation of racism is
    highlighted by the US Department of Agriculture's statement on milk
    that the Government's recommended milk is intended for "the
    majority of Americans. It doesn't communicate to all Americans."
    The dairy lobby in America is extremely powerful and lies to ensure
    its profits.

    The milk lobby in India is no less powerful. When I spoke against
    it a few years ago in a small meeting of Jain munis in Gujarat, I
    was hauled in the same evening by the Prime Minister - on an
    official complaint made by the Gujarat Chief Minister - saying I
    was hurting the milk industry. A study has shown that men who drank
    milk daily are at a higher risk of prostate cancer than men who
    reported never drinking milk.

    Is there no one in India who understands that that milk hurts our
    children and puts a burden on the health system? And that the milk
    industry is out merely to make profits and couldn't care less about
    the consequences? And that we are victims of fake and dangerous
    advertising.

    More at:
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