I saw this in my local paper.

This I know from a while back.
It has seemed to resurfaced again.



Milk is a natural and is good for a body - if you are a calf. Although the American Dairy Board is paid millions to tell people that they must drink milk and eat dairy products, humans do very well on a dairy-free diet. Even the late Dr. Spock, the famous pediatrician, advised that children be raised without dairy products.

Human infants need breast milk, not cow's milk. In fact, milk consumption is a cause of childhood onset diabetes (Type 1) and of anemia due to its interference with iron absorption in the digestive tract. Researchers have linked dairy product consumption to ovarian cancer, acne, arthritis, migraines and the development of cataracts. Milk-drinking men have a significantly higher risk of prostate cancer.

There is evidence that calcium from plant source (dark leafy greens, beans, fortified juices and soymilk, etc.) is actually better absorbed than that from dairy.

In today's dairy industry, cows are forced to produce so much milk they are "spent" at 3 to 4 years and slaughtered for fast food hamburgers. Male calves born to dairy cows are torn from their mothers at birth and raised for veal, chained in tiny crates for 16 weeks with no exercise, bedding, and in almost total darkness. The cruel crated veal farms could not exist without the dairy industry.

Go dairy-free. Vegan foods contain zero cholesterol, and you will discover a whole new world of delicious nut and soymilks, non-dairy desserts and entrees from around the world. For free recipes and nutritional information, phone 224-1361 or 888-VEG-FOOD or go to goveg.com, tryveg.com.

BARBARA BONSIGNORE

Concord



By Anonymous on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 13:31
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I do agree with this person that milk is a natural production of the body that is meant to provide short term nutrients that are specific to its breed. In other words, cows create milk to feed their young just as mothers produce milk to feed their babies (for the short term). However, I do thing that this person took a valid argument and chose to use it in an effort to push her own beliefs and stretched it to the point where it became meaningless and dismissable.

By Anonymous on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:49
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In my 25 years of reading the Monitor, I've noticed that the editors seem to enjoy printing letters from the same people with very, very extreme viewpoints. Although I respect the strength of your convictions, I also believe that rabid veganism represents the outer fringes of what is actually sensible.

But, as a society, we need people who have views that are extreme, because that allows the rest of us to figure out where the middle ground is. While most people probably won't listen to you because they think you're a nut, it still makes people think...never a bad thing.

I too and going to go have a glass of milk...maybe some eggs bacon for breakfast, and as I bite into my delicious crunchy bacon, I will take a moment to admire the strength of your convictions.

Thanks, Mikey
By Anonymous on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 08:21
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Now would you please stop breathing. You're warming up Mother Earth for the rest of us, and she's getting quite cranky.
- C. dog e. doG

Another reason
By mevansnh@tds.net on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 07:53
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Another reason not to drink milk and eat beef is global warming. Those cows give off methane when they chew their cud and belch, and nitrous oxide and ammonia when they leave manure all over the barnyard, and have become a major contributor to global warming..

Don't eat Vegans!
By Anonymous on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 13:56
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But if you do, wash them down with plenty of milk to get rid of the heinous aftertaste. And for god's sake, immediately floss afterwards to remove the hemp that will inevitably get caught between your teeth.

Now, now kids, let's not gang up on the downtrodden, stray vegan who wandered onto the Monitor. Vegetables have feelings, too, you know (re: the "Silent Scream of the Broccoli", Eule Gibbons, Rodale Press, 1974).

For those who have an interest, check out John Stossel's report on the latest incarnation of human's with too little to do missin' the point: Orthorexia. It isn't just for breakfast anymore. You can obsess about food quality and purity day and night right into your early grave, macrobiotics be damned.

That's why I'm such a big proponent of roadkill; it's already dead and darn tasty. If hit properly by the murder weapon, it can also eviscerate the critter. Time for a random moment in History: before there was PETA, there were PETA's (People Eating Tasty Animals). I, for one, think no animal should go to waste. Among other more disturbing reasons tied up to weird fetish fixations, this is one of the less troubling reasons why I'm so darkly drawn to Sarah Palin. Maybe if I were to follow in her wake, I could gather sufficient carrion to survive from her killing spree castoff's - a liver here, a heart there - as I gaze longingly into her librarian glassed eyes. Be still my heart! Enough, enough.

Remember Roadkill Warriors: thank those who put bounty on your table - it's only good manners and proper hunting etiquette.
- C. dog e. doG

Vegans
By millennia on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 13:26
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Vegans are just as likely to develop the same illnesses that meat eaters do.

Have you ever seen a vegan that does not look anemic.

I would never suggest that we should control the diet of anyone, but Barb is a little over the top.

She is obviously liberal in her views and worries about dairy cows being "torn from their mothers". Hey Bard, how do you feel about abortion????? Do you have the same compassion for the young ones??

Wanna come over for a BBQ?
By JW on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 12:36
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I know and understand democracy is founded on the free exchange of ideas, but you seem to suggest that allowing our children to ingest dairy is tantamount to child abuse. That is ridiculous and patronizing.

I have a few vegan and vegetarian friends, but they're aren't spending their time trying to convert me or scolding me for my eating habits. It was a personal choice for them and not something they feel as though they need to proselytize about. They actually hold a certain disdain for those fanatical vegans who preach "live and let live" for animals, but will go out of their way to criticize a guy for having a burger.

Sorry
By Anonymous on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 11:41
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I will eat WHAT I want WHEN I want. I am so sick of these vegans going on a hysterical rant and getting into other people's faces with all their preaching. Pass the milk, burgers, hot dogs and whatever else will drive them over the edge. It's a free country. Oh, and soy milk is horrible tasting. Bleech!

unbelievable
By KB on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 11:23
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I'm not a vegan or a vegetarian. I eat meat and drink milk. I may disagree with what she says, but relax people! If you want to drink your milk, than do so, but to call this woman a fruitcake or suggest she may lack life in her eyes because she believes differently than you, is pretty petty. Unbelievable how intolerant people are these days to differences or different opinions. By the way, chocolate soy milk isn't too bad!

By Peter L. Dine on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 11:02
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Vegans bodies lack certain chemicals and vitamins that the body need to survive. If you look at any vegan, you can see the lack of life in their eyes. Besides, I love vegans. More meat for me.

Milk
By Peter L. Dine on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:59
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If God didn't want us to eat meat, he wouldn't have made it taste so good. Soy taste like dirt and tofu is just disgusting.

Don't drink milk? Ha Ha Ha Ha
By Peter L. Dine on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:51
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We have chemicals and waste in many of the foods we drink. Alcohol kills the body and the mind, (Government caused) prescription drugs addiction is running rampant, unemployment rate is incredible, we have an idiot running for president and an even bigger idiot running this counrtry. We have who knows what in our drinking water, we're at war with people we can't see. We have diseases running pampant on this planet. Animals are being born with two faces or four legs. Kids are being born with four arms and four legs. Milk, is the least of this world's problems and if milk is that much of an issue for you then I think you need to get a life and look around you. You're whinning about the wrond issue to the wrong people. We're more worried about being able to afford the milk and food on our tables, or the gas to get the said milk.

Well, a study that I heard last week
By Anonymous on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:32
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A study that I read last week stated that soy p[rotein makes men impotent.
progressives are anit-population so I suggest that hemp wearing, Leftists drink as much as they can

yet another fruit cake on the loose..
By Andre P on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:31
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way to go Barb, just because you believe animals should not be eaten doesnt mean the rest of us want to drink soy milk and eat tofu. myself I just had a big glass of white milk with my steak and eggs. here is a news flash, cancer is caused by almost everything you come in contact with on a daily basis. maybe the real issue with you is one of breast feeding, it is true that most vegans were never breast fed and developed the condition as a result. I feel bad for you, it must be tough to eat all those suppliments becasue your afraid to eat what is really good for you..

Hmmmm....
By Anonymous on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 01:33
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What to choose....what to choose....chocolate or strawberry milk. Decisions! Decisions!





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