Milk – Maybe Not So Good

It’s health day! Several good items to read concerning your health today. This one focuses on the dairy industry. This is what is wrong with big business. Here’s the whole story

Like feedlot beef cattle, dairy cows aren’t fed the diet nature intended for them and are instead pumped full of animal by-products and grains, which leads to metabolic disease (and more horrific things like Mad Cow). “Unlike omnivorous chickens and pigs, all cattle are naturally designed to live entirely from slowly and methodically foraging vegetation,” wrote Niman in Righteous Porkchop. “Bovines in the wild spend most of their waking hours in a state of ambulant grazing, walking an average of 2.5 miles a day, all the while taking 50 to 80 bites of forage per minute. Life in a confinement dairy promised a cow an environment and a diet that violated her very evolution.”

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