Recently, the United States Department of Agriculture has been urging to remove dairy products from the 2020 – 2025 dietary guidelines. Last year, Canada banned dairy products in its dietary guidelines to introduce better lifestyle habits among their countrymen. But in the USA, dairy is a huge industry. Americans use milk, milk cream and cheese very often. From making sumptuous burgers to pizzas, milk and cheese are in use day in and day out.
In 2014, 9.3 million cows produced 93.4 million metric tones of milk almost across 50,000 cow farms in the United States. Majority of the cow farms are a family-owned business. With generations of experience, they have been producing a whooping amount of milk and have been flourishing the dairy industry. As per US Diary Expert Council, the production of milk has been increasing by 2-3% almost every year.
Charity organisation named Charity4Good is voicing out loud and requesting the US government to take necessary actions to stop milk and other milk products. Professional American basketball player, Maya Moore was going through training under the veteran player, Kara Lawson in 2014. Since then, she stopped consuming milk, milk products and processed sugar. The day she started following this, she noticed a significant change in her health. She enhanced her performance rapidly.
Following are the issues which justifies that why milk and milk products are harmful for human.
- It accelerates type 2 diabetes.
- It helps Alzheimer\’s to make a space in an individual\’s health.
- Various heart problems show up due to the unsaturated fat in milk.
- Prostate cancer can start with daily consumption of milk.
- No positive effect on bone health.
British Medical Journal couldn\’t find any direct link between regular milk consumption and good bone health. Doctors tracked down the diet and exercises performed by adolescent girls and simply found that milk is not helping them to strengthen their bones.
Another concern, which came out is that the cows producing milk naturally are way better for their calves. But instead of the calves, that amount of milk is been consumed by humans. In some of the farms, cows are been injected with oestrogen in their body and that\’s why they are forced to produce milk beyond their limit. Isn\’t it torture on those cows. If they are producing milk naturally, they can stay healthy. The way mother milk is mandatory for human babies, natural cow milk is mandatory for their calves.
Why are we torturing them? Why aren\’t we allowing the calves to have their mother\’s milk? If this cow milk is causing so much harm then why are we consuming it?
I know that banning milk and other milk products will impact badly the food industry. But health is more important, instead of consuming milk and devouring taste, we should focus more on our health.