The Harm of Milk
Got Milk? Well, Austin Powers, Tracy McGrady, Serena Williams, Britney Spears, and even Elvis all do. But, do they know what they are selling in this Got Milk? Advertisements? The Got Milk? campaign was based on a milk deprivation strategy that reminded consumers how inconvenient it was to be without milk. The advertisment made milk a very popular drink because of its attractiveness not because of the nutrients and health issues. It has been believed by many that milk is needed to have a strong and healthy body, when actually milk can be extremely harmful and the nutrients needed for a good body can be found in many other sources.
Statistics show that milk consumption is on the rise in the United States since the
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Most of America¡¯s dairy cows have leukemia virus and after they graze in fields with pesticides their milk contains a mixture of lethal chemicals (¡°Milk: The Deadly Poison¡±). Equally as important are the hormones and antibiotics dairy farmers inject into their cows. One hormone, known as recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rBGH, is injected into many cows to increase milk production. There is evidence that rBGH assists the growth of tumors in lab animals and it stimulates another hormone closely connected with breast cancer (¡°The Case against Dairy¡±). Also, farmers are permitted to give antibiotics to their cows to fight various diseases. Milk and dairy products contain traces of the antibiotic that are passed on to us. Exposure to such toxins breed strains of bacteria that are immune to even the strongest medicine (¡°The Case against Dairy¡±).
Most of us do not realize the number of people that are lactose intolerant. Worldwide estimates suggest that two-thirds of the population have trouble digesting milk because of lactose intolerance. According to Teacher Magazine, minorities may have difficulty digesting a sugar in milk known as lactose. An estimated ninety percent of Asian Americans, seventy percent of African Americans and Native Americans, fifty percent of Hispanics, and fifteen percent of Caucasians are lactose intolerant. Hand in hand with lactose
During the Cold War, the Soviets were trying to spread communism throughout Europe and Asia by exalting its achievements, and undermining democracy. Part of their approach was by launching ‘Hate-America’ propaganda. “As the Cold War intensified, the Truman administration launched an aggressive “Campaign of Truth” […] to counter the Soviet Union propaganda machine (Ubah, 2012).” The Campaign of Truth was created to help convince the world that the United States has “no purpose of going to war, except in the defense of freedom. (Vaccaro, 1950)” Truman encouraged the media to show the world that the United States was ‘wholly dedicated to the cause of peace (Vaccaro,
"Milk consumptions has plummeted from 25 to 20 gallons per year of chocolate milk since 199" I think chocolate milk should be banned from schools because flavored milk can give kid diseases. Also to much sugar leads to obesity. Most importantly if kids are served white milk they will drink it. All this connects to adults
Have you ever picked up the chocolate milk carton and read the nutrition statement on it? Better yet, have you ever compared it to the nutrition statement on the back of a can of Coke? Flavored milk is regular milk flavored with syrup to make the milk taste like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or banana. Flavored milk is regular milk flavored with syrup to make the milk taste like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or banana.
The California Milk Processor Board needed to reverse plunging industry sales fast. Ever since, they have been credited with great increasing milk sales in California. Starting out with commericials, the campaign showed actors eating dried foods such as, peanut butter & jelly, peanuts, crackers, or cookies and then the actor would be stuck with a dried mouth and no milk. By the end of the commercial would be the words “Got Milk.” The consumption of fluid milk had steadily declined from 0.96 (1970) cups per person to 0.59 (2011). People had other options to drink such as sodas, waters, juices, and energy drinks. Although the campaign didn’t actually get people to buy more
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.
Lactose intolerance is fairly common. It seems to affect guys and girls equally. Some ethnic groups are more likely to be affected than others because their diets traditionally include fewer dairy products: Almost all Asians and Native Americans are lactose intolerant, and up to 80% of African Americans and Hispanic Americans also have symptoms of lactose intolerance. Their ancestors did not eat dairy foods, so their bodies were not prepared to digest dairy, and they passed these genes on from generation to
There is information on free stuff you can win; there are images of the new 2004 Got Milk magazine ads and even video clips of the commercials that air on T.V. There is a Got Milk club that people can join as well. One of the commercials had the video clip of a teen boy at the post office sending a package marked fragile. The package travel through the post office and into the truck, it is dropped and kicked and thrown around. The truck then proceeds to the house to deliver it, it goes over bumps and the package is again thrown all over. The truck arrives at the destination and the mail man drops the package. There is a dog outside the house shaking it and biting at it. The same boy opens the door to find his package a complete mess; he opens it and inside is his Chocolate Milk. The ad’s catch was “Shake Things Up”. This T.V. commercial would appeal to all people. It is funny for the comic lover and serious for the parent wanting their kid to drink milk. This ad has numerous emotional appeals, everything from not liking the post office for ruining the package, to loving the post office for shaking up the milk. People look for humor in their life and this ad does that while appealing to one’s logical side of needing to drink milk. Advertising companies have many different ways of selling their product, they even succeed at selling emotions such as fun, and making you think about how logical it really is to drink milk.
Over the years, healthy, safe, nutritious, and essential milk has increased as a focus of safer and healthier foods in the public health industry2. Today, health Canada distinguishes that a safer and healthier milk is a major
The milk in the school cafeterias was not good,and I hope it's not really a good idea to serving milk in the school cafeterias because milk produces gas and gives lots of unhealthy energy . Why it is not good? For example milk can make you diarrhea and this problem is really dangerous sometime diarrhea can make ulcer also ulcer can kill the people another example.Why it is not good because milk can also make people weak. According to (source 2) “the condition is more common in people of Asian, African, Native American or Mediterranean ethnicity, and, while not dangerous, it can cause nausea, bloating, gas and diarrhea.” This quote shows condition is more common in people of Asian, African, and others country because lots of young people drinks
They would then find an interest in the advert and want the product despite them not knowing what it is, simply because the events in the advert made them chuckle. Also the sounds which are used throughout the advert are seen as humorous; instead of the characters using full sentences they use gestures or one word answers, the most distinctive word you hear in the advert is “milk”. However due to the tones of their voices as the word “milk” is repeated the whole way through the commercial children will remember this, so when shopping with their parents and they see milk they will remember the advert and opt for
Lactose Intolerance Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest significant amounts of lactose, the predominant sugar of milk. This inability results from a shortage of the enzyme lactase, which is normally produced by the cells that line the small intestine. Lactase breaks down milk sugar into simpler forms that can then be absorbed into the bloodstream. When there is not enough lactase to digest the amount of lactose consumed, the results, although not usually dangerous, may be very distressing. While not all persons deficient in lactase have symptoms, those who do are considered to be lactose intolerant.
Recently, countless Americans have stopped consuming milk since it’s not as healthy as they have been told by ads such as MilkPEP who created the “Got Milk?” ads in which they state the average Americans should consume three cups of milk a day (Tracy Miller). However, large dairies have driven for profit margins rather than the quality of the milk and innovations such as pasteurization, genetically modified growth hormones, and genetically modified cow fed have caused cow’s milk to become unhealthy and caused milk not to have as many nutrients as it could have. Furthermore, these technological advances such as genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), which is an artificial hormone that was synthesized to
All things considered, milk is not new, not improved, and generally considered unexciting. The "Got Milk?" ads are anything but because of its simplicity, use of relevant pop culture icons, and a wide demographic variety. So have a cow,
For many years now humans have been deceived that cow’s milk will provide many health benefits.
The other thing that we should consider before using dairy products is from the ethical point of view. Drinking cow’s milk or consuming any dairy product is equal to torturing thousands of cows, due to changing their nature and way of living in order to make them useable for ourselves. It has become evident that milk is not the only source and product that we can reach vitamins, proteins and calcium from, in fact there are many natural and healthy products that we can reach out those factors that we are looking for it in milk, for instance fruits. Contrary to common belief, people should stop consuming milk because it is unhealthy, unnatural and unethical.