Dear Dairy
What you have suspected for so long is true- we have given you the brush-off!
It’s not that we don’t love you. But we know what you do to us. You line our intestines with mucus, making it difficult for us to digest, assimilate, and eliminate our foods. You clog our arteries and give us respiratory and heart problems. You make us fat and congested and misplace our trust with slogans such as “Milk- it does a body good” or “Milk- the legendary stuff”. Who really needs your trademarked mustache?
Not the majority of Asians, African Americans, and Eastern European Jews, who are lactose-intolerant. In short, an estimated 60% of society can’t tolerate you intestinally, lacking the enzyme to digest your milk sugar. The rest of us get sluggish and fatigued when we consume you. From this standpoint, it makes sense since HUMANS WERE NOT DESIGNED TO PROCESS DAIRY PRODUCTS IN THE FIRST PLACE, particularly pasteurized dairy. You can argue that I am part of the smart species that domesticated and harnessed the goodness of your milk, but intelligence doesn’t mean I was right, you just aren’t good for me!
We also don’t like what’s in you- low doses of antibiotics (anti-life), steroids, and hormones that are supposed to keep you free from diseases and help you lactate longer, but in fact cause us illness and resistance to beneficial bacteria in the long run. And then there’s what’s not in you. All those vitamins and calcium you’re supposed to have? Green leafy vegetables like broccoli, kale, spinach have so much more. And convincing us that you are the key to avoiding osteoporosis? Unforgivable. The nations with the highest intake of dairy, Australia, the United States, Sweden, and Finland, also have the shown the highest rates of the bone degenerating disease. Why? Because it’s the acidic conditions conditions you create in us that makes our bodies pull the alkaline calcium out of our bones to neutralise the acid, leaving us with net calcium defecit. Taking calcium supplements for osteoporosis is a band-aid approach, becoming alkaline through the consumption of leafy green vegetables, fruits and nuts is how to prevent it.
You and the huge dairy industry that drives you are no longer needed in my life. I may miss the taste of ice-cream, yogurt and cheese but at the end of the day I am choosing to LOVE ME MORE THAN YOU EVER WILL.
With Love, Goodbye!
