How did we get “used to” the idea of consuming cow dairy? (plus goat & sheep?) Why not pig or horse milk??
…good trip to LA lots of energy, made the choice to eat a salad in the aiport and not a sandwich, may seem like a little deal to you but it was BIG!
What is the harm of [cow] milk and the benefit of goats milk?
Monica’s Answer:
- Cow dairy is in MOST processed foods, so most westerners get it all the time.
- Cow milk/dairy products are understood to be hard on the human body because:
- The particular protein in cow dairy requires calcium to exit our bodies (via urine, feces, sweat, etc.) The shocker there is that cow dairy products, therefore are actually one of the CAUSES of osteoporosis (since we store calcium in our bones). Our bones, like all our organs, give calcium or any other substances they hold for digestion and elimination processes when we haven’t eaten enough of the needed digestion aids in our other foods or supplements WITH the cow dairy! (We hope to see the kind of turnaround on this that we saw in the 1950’s when menthol cigarettes were touted as “healthy for our lungs” ~ well, maybe the menthol WAS fine, but the rest of the product sure wasn’t! The same is true of the calcium in dairy because it only comes WITH the protein, and the protein requires MORE calcium than naturally comes in the same quantities, hence the slow depletion of calcium which IS LT bone loss!
- The calcium deficit and other attributes particular to cow dairy require more digestion effort than other dairy (this is helped by getting truly “raw” cow milk, but why bother when goat is available at TJ’s).
- Many people are lactose intolerant but don’t know it because they don’t feel the stomach pain (for myriad reasons)
- There is an almost-identical-to-human hormone naturally in cow dairy (absent in goat, sheep, etc.) which might be the reason why some people get very overweight with it, and others of us simply can’t lose the extra weight we usually (incorrectly) attribute to age (if you want to grow up to be a cow or a bull…)
- The massive amounts of chemicals and growth hormones we still allow our dairy farms to inject into cows for the heinously ludicrous reason of getting them to produce 35 quarts of milk per day rather than the 8 quarts average a nursing cow naturally produces! AND, it is easily findable that there has been a glut of excess milk for decades, now. Further, we still have allowed the U.S. government to subsidize dairy farmers as though we NEED their excess milk, and to continue to waste a billion tax dollars a year STORING this glut of chemically-contaminated milk.
Goat dairy, especially, is basically known to be healthier for humans having a fraction of the issues listed in item 2, as far as has been studied. These are all more great areas for “PhD’s We’d Like to See” but the general idea is that healthy human bodies are much more like goat bodies. That naturally leads to the belief MANY foodies and nutritionists hold that it is not wise for any species to drink another species’ specially-formulated nursing milk! But the long-established connection between eating yogurt daily and true, healthful longevity is a strong rebuttal, at the very least.
It also seems that questions about organic, or at least “chemical free” goat dairy are soon to come, and the caution of eating everything with a sense of moderation remains key, too.
I and many other people who cannot tolerate cow dairy feel deliciously blessed that goat dairies are growing in popularity!
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