Re: ALL'S NOT WELL WITH DAIRY MILK

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Date: 09/01/04 

Date: 01 Sep 2004 17:23:24 GMT

And clarified butter for cooking comes from where, why a tin of course and
the british forced indians to use it and other milk based products. The
question of being able to digest milk products is a function of a culture
having included milking animals, cows aren't the only animals, in their
diets for a long time. Those areas of the world where milk animals are
absent or the milk not included in the diet, india does use milk
traditionaly of course, is where not digesting milk products can be a
problem. It is not a matter of being "colored", people in e. africa where
cows are common have much less problem and the folk in s. asia whose skin
happens to be darker don't have this problem either. There is good
evidence to suggest that eating cows and eating milk products was the
common pattern for much of the area's history and all people of all skin
shade have the genes from doing so such that milk intake is absolutely no
problem in the least. Are there no lengths of appeal to wishful thinking
and outright use of false information and invoking of bigotry that some
people will not stoop to acomplish? Please do snip the many commercial
links, as is done here, that jay stevens,aka dr. jai etc., adds to all his
posts so his spaming loses effect.

>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:
>http://www.dailypioneer.com
>
>Jai Maharaj
>