Everywhere in the world, cow’s milk is so ubiquitous that it doesn’t even been an introduction. Whether poured on breakfast cereal or enjoyed alone as a cold glass of milk, this beverage has become a staple in the world’s diet that can by enjoy from infant to the very old.

Wait! Before you take the next sip, consider the heavier side: growth hormones, chemicals, fat content and digestibility.

BGH: TURNING COWS INTO BIOTECH MILK MACHINES
Fifty years ago an average cow produced 2,000 pounds of milk per year. Today the top producers give 50,000 pounds! How was this accomplished? Drugs, antibiotics, hormones (more than 59 types), forced feeding plans and specialized breeding; that’s how.

The latest high-tech onslaught on the poor cow is bovine growth hormone or BGH. This genetically engineered drug is supposed to stimulate milk production. BGH, also know as Bovine Somatotropin (BST), works by interfering with a cow’s natural physiology and artificially inducing the cow to produce more milk than is appropriate for her body. As BGH forces cows to produce more milk than is healthy for their body, the cows become more susceptible to infections and diseases. This, in turn, creates additional needs for antibiotics and other drugs. All these looks like a vicious cycle of destruction that never stops!

Milk and dairy products, unless otherwise labeled ‘organic’, most probably come from cows routinely injected with BGH. A lactating mammal excretes toxins through its milk. These synthetic hormones injected to cows are transferred to milk and eventually into our body through the consumption of milk from such cows. It has a serious effect on children’s obesity and premature puberty, where children are growing too rapid for their age. Little girls are reported to have their first menstruation earlier and earlier. One case was reported in the USA at the age of 4.

IGF (INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR) IN MILK LINKED TO CANCER
"Levels of IGF increase in milk after cows are treated with rBGH", a hormone fed to cows to make them grow unnaturally large in a shorter period of time to maximize the dairy industry’s profits -National Institutes of Health Assessment of Bovine Somatotropin, December 1999.

IGF-1, a powerful growth hormone that is identical in bovines and humans, and is becoming known as a KEY factor in the rapid growth and proliferation of breast, prostate, colon and lung cancers.

"The IGF system is widely involved in human carcinogenesis. A significant association between high circulating IGF-I concentrations and an increased risk of lung, colon, prostate and pre-menopausal breast cancer has recently been reported." - Internatonal Journal of Cancer, 2000 Aug, 87:4

THE 21ST CENTURY COWS' DIET RIFE WITH CHEMICALS COCKTAIL
Besides synthetic hormones, these cows also retain in their flesh and milk all the pesticides they have consumed or absorbedbecause their feeds are often grown on land sprayed heavily with fertilizer and poisonous pesticides. They are sprayed with and fed with many toxic compounds never encountered by organic cattle raised in a more natural way. Further intensification of the dairy industry has disastrously turned cows (natural herbivores) into carnivores by feeding them meat and bone meal. These are rotten, inconsumable meat from supermarket rejects. Think how ‘mad cow disease’ outbreak happened.