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Milk And Ovarian Cancer

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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

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