Milk
Harvard study: Pasteurized milk from industrial dairies linked to cancer
Monday, February 27, 2012
http://www.naturalnews.com
(NaturalNews) The truth has once again shaken the foundation of the 'American
Tower of Babel' that is mainstream science, with a new study out of Harvard
University showing that pasteurized milk product from factory farms is
linked to causing hormone-dependent cancers. It turns out that the concentrated
animal feeding operations (CAFO) model of raising cows on factory farms churns
out milk with dangerously high levels of estrone sulfate, an estrogen compound
linked to testicular, prostate, and breast cancers.
Dr. Ganmaa Davaasambuu, Ph.D., and her colleagues specifically identified "milk
from modern dairy farms" as the culprit, referring to large-scale confinement
operations where cows are milked 300 days of the year, including while they are
pregnant. Compared to raw milk from her native Mongolia, which is extracted only
during the first six months after cows have already given birth, pasteurized
factory milk was found to contain up to 33 times more estrone sulfate.
Evaluating data from all over the world, Dr. Davaasambuu and her colleagues
identified a clear link between consumption of such high-hormone milk, and high
rates of hormone-dependent cancers. In other words, contrary to what the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), and the conventional milk lobby would have you believe,
processed milk from factory farms is not a health product, and is directly
implicated in causing cancer.
"The milk we drink today is quite unlike the milk our ancestors were drinking"
without apparent harm for 2,000 years, Dr. Davaasambuu is quoted as saying in
the Harvard University Gazette. "The milk we drink today may not be
nature's perfect food."
Meanwhile, raw, grass-fed, organic milk from cows milked at the proper times is
linked to improving digestion, healing autoimmune disorders, and boosting
overall immunity, which can help prevent cancer. Though you will never hear any
of this from the mainstream media, all milk is not the same -- the way a cow is
raised, when it is milked, and how its milk is handled and processed makes all
the difference in whether or not the end product promotes health or death.
American government seeks to further perpetuate the lie that all
milk is the same with egregious new provisions in 2012 Farm Bill
Of particular concern are new provisions in the 2012 Farm Bill that create even
more incentives for farmers to produce the lowest quality, and most
health-destroying, type of milk possible. Rather than incentivize grazing cows
on pastures, which allows them to feed on grass, a native food that their
systems can process, the government would rather incentivize confined factory
farming methods that force cows to eat genetically-modified (GM) corn and other
feed, which makes them sick.
As it currently stands, the government already provides incentives for farmers
to stop pasturing their animals, instead confining them in cages as part of a
Total Confinement Dairy Model, aka factory farms. But the 2012 Farm Bill will
take this a step further by outlawing "component pricing" for milk, which
involves allowing farmers to sell milk with higher protein and butterfat at a
higher price.
Allowing farmers to sell higher quality milk at a higher price provides an
incentive for them to improve the living conditions on their farms, and milk
better cow breeds. But the U.S. government would rather standardize all milk as
being the same, and create a system where farmers continue to produce
cancer-causing milk from sick cows for the millions of children to drink.
To learn more, visit:
http://www.anh-usa.org/healthy-milk-what-is-it/
Sources for this article include:
http://www.anh-usa.org/healthy-milk-what-is-it/
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/035039_raw_milk_pasteurized_CDC.html