Despite the fact that people claim milk is healthy and good for your body, milk is no more than a commercial lie that underlies with many ethical and environmental problems. Many people believe milk is the vital source of calcium, but, in fact, milk is only one of many sources of calcium: dark leafy green vegetables and some types of legumes are among the other sources. Since people can get calcium easily from other sources, people do not have to consume milk for calcium. Not only that milk is not necessary for people, but also milk can cause many health problems to people when people consume it. Based on information from U.S. National Library of Medicine, approximately 65 percent of people have some degree of lactose intolerance. For people …show more content…
High levels of galactose, a sugar released by the digestion of lactose in milk, have been studied as possibly damaging to the ovaries and leading to ovarian cancer. Though more researches needed, a recent study found that women with high intakes of lactose had a higher risk of ovarian cancer, compared to women with the lowest lactose intakes. Even though the study did not find any association between overall milk or dairy product intake and ovarian cancer. Some researchers have hypothesized that modern industrial milk production practices have changed milk’s hormone composition in ways that could increase the risk of ovarian and other hormone-related cancers (The Nutrition …show more content…
The process of getting milk is often unethical. Like humans, dairy cows still need to go through pregnancy to have milk. In order to get as much milk as possible from cows, their owners often take newborn dairy calves from their mothers within the first 12 hours. In this way, cows will not develop a deep bond with calves. Thus, cow owners can make cows go through this circle more easily and quickly. The living conditions for these cows are usually not suitable for them to live either. In order to maximum profits, owners often place cows inside crowded pens to save money. Many cows cannot go outside to breathe fresh air and feel the sunshine for most of their life. According to a 2002 U.S. Department of Agriculture report, tail docking, the practice of cutting off the ends of the tails of dairy cows, is found in about half of American dairy farms in the attempt to reduce the incidence of leptospirosis for milkers. Even though these treatments are reasonable and economic if people see the problem from the cow owners’ perspective, it is not ethical for animals at all. Yet, with increasing demand for dairy products, milk manufacturers will not stop their unethical treatments. In order to stop these, the first move people need to make is not to convince cow owners to be ethical but is to stop drinking milk to solve the problem from its
Brent’s article takes a hard look at the pros and cons of donor human milk over informal milk-sharing options, and the ethical concerns parents or mothers may have concerning donor human milk versus infant-formula. It further looks at and explains the pros and cons of infant-formula and the increasing advantages of breastfeeding.
Most of the pigs raised in the U.S. live on large scale factory farms where they are overcrowded and treated inhumanely. At an extremely young age, piglets are stolen from their mothers and placed in crowded, windowless pens. Due to being jampacked, the piglets do not have much range of motion and are constantly laying in their own waste material. This can cause extreme irritation so they begin biting each others tails, causing farmers to rip off their tails and teeth without a sedative to ease the pain. Most sows in the U.S.
The more milk kids drink, the more nutrients they get, says Mrs. Dobbins from the midwest dairy council the more nutrients you get the stronger you will be. That can only lead to good things. Another example is, if chocolate milk doesn't hurt kids and they like it, why take it away? Many people say to take chocolate milk away from schools but why, many think that just because its “chocolate” milk its bad, but its not. “Some people say chocolate milk is bad, but it has the exact same things as white milk except a little sugar,” this was stated by Mrs. Dobbins from the midwest dairy council, and even though there's added sugars most kids are active and they can burn it off. Those examples explain why kids drink more if its
which results in healthy cattle. We use our cattle for milk and meat, and you wouldn’t want
Cows are animals that are used to extract many things, since clothes to food. More than 9.3 million cows were used to produce milk in the United States in 2008, and more than 2.5 million dairy cows were slaughtered for meat. In the farms cows are forced to give birth to collect the milk because the first milk is the best, because male calves will not grow up to produce milk, they are considered of little value to the dairy farmer and are sold for meat. Millions of these calves are taken away to be raised for beef. Hundreds of thousands of other male calves born into the dairy industry are raised for veal. Cow lives all her life in a deplorable place where every day the machine extract milk from their udders causing cancer on it when the cow does not serve she is sends to the slaughterhouse to sell their meat. These are the kind of life led farm animals and although they have
You might think that a milk carton that reads, “no artificial hormones added” is hormone-free. But all milk whether raw or pasteurized, naturally contains hormones. Even in Canada, where growth hormones to stimulate milk production in dairy cows are not permitted, natural hormones are still present in milk. The reason, suggests Ganmaa Davaasambuu, a physician and a working scientist for Harvard School of Public Health, cows are milked almost 300 days per year. And for much of that time they’re pregnant. The farther along a cow is, the more hormones appear in her milk.
13. Republic: Ancient Rome, before it started declining and falling all over the place, was a republic, and so is the United States. Republics have what are termed "republican" forms of government — not to be confused with Republican-with-a-big-R, as in the American political party. If you live in a "Banana Republic" you probably live in a tiny Caribbean island run by a dictator. Or you're spending too much time at the mall.
This delightful, candy-like, thirst quencher that’s adored by tons of children in our school, is now a dangerous drink. I’ve been researching about the popular chocolate milk, and found some alarming facts. Chocolate milk actually attracts kids due to its sweetness, but it may turn away kids from drinking regular milk. “I don’t recommend that kids drink chocolate milk in schools, because the added sugar provides unnecessary extra calories when so many kids are already struggling with their weight and unhealthy eating,” states RD and nutrition/health expert Joy Bauer. Besides, there’s so much cholesterol and saturated fat, it can lead to tons of health problems. Although it may have some benefits, there’s really not much calcium in milk itself, but it may have many harmful additives. This is a major problem and I think we need to ban chocolate milk in our school.
Thin cows will have inadequate energy reserves to sustain them through the lactation which means the farmer will loose money.
In comparing the Parthenon and Pantheon Buildings there are many similarities and many differences noted. Each has a specific use and design though some of the elements are the same.
Though mothers may need breast milk for their newborns right away, they may be poisoning their baby with bad milk if being sold from an unknown person. “But the FDA has expressed concern about milk-trading websites, warning consumers that the milk offered there carries an increased risk of contamination by drugs or disease, including HIV” (qtd. in “Brown”). If mothers get the milk they want to buy tested by professionals, it would be safer for the baby. The mother providing someone else with the milk may be involved with drugs or have some type of sickness, leading to the breast milk very unhealthy to the newborn. Mothers should be very cautious with making decisions like this while involving their own baby.
Thesis: Humans are designed to drink human milk, not cow’s milk. Humans should really old drink milk during infancy and that’s because all of the hormones in cow’s milk can cause many health issues.
Which brings us to the quality of the milk, lots of commercial farms put steroids in there cows to produce more milk than a regular cow could produce, prolactin, steroids including estrogens, progesterone, corticoids, and androgens, these are just some of the steroids commercial farmers inject in there cows. Sometimes when a cow produces too much milk they could develop mastitis in cows, mastitis is an infection or inflammation in the udders which makes them produce chunky milk it can be potentially fatal in the mammary gland and very expensive for the dairy commercial/industrial farms says HDB dairy, if the udders of a dairy cow doesn 't work they often get shot and get butchered for meat just because the farm was pushing them to hard
Throughout our lives we have been told that milk is good for our body and helps to toughen our bones. Drinking milk started when people domesticated animals for food, which happened around 7500 years ago in the central Balkans and central Europe. By that time consuming milk was not as common as it is today. It was only farmers in some specific regions that were using cow’s milk. Milk’s market grew the mass production of meat in the 15th century. Afterwards in the 17th century, the idea of eating out and going to restaurants was born and fast food industries, started using animal’s meat for producing their meals. The rate of milk users grew with the rate of meat users and milk’s market got bigger and bigger every day. Mothers
Each child will grow and develop, but not all will reach milestones at the same time. This makes it very important for educators and parents to have knowledge and understanding of the developmental milestones of middle childhood in order to ensure that a child is developmentally progressing within a normal time frame. These milestones are set up as a guide to help parents and educators make choices to take necessary steps to provide extra assistance if needed or help to identify inabilities if growth is not matching the milestones within a certain time frame. This paper will provide information on characteristics/milestones of middle childhood