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Why Is Dairy So Scary?
The Horrific Truth Behind Your Glass Of Milk
It’s common knowledge that women have to be pregnant to start producing milk. You don’t just hit puberty and suddenly start leaking mammary secretions for the rest of your life.
Apart from being really messy, inconvenient and more than a little unhygienic, this would be a huge drain on the body’s resources. There would be little point in eating food and expending all the energy required to digest and assimilate that food if the body then just excreted a huge portion of the essential proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates.
So a woman’s body only produces milk when she needs it — in other words, when she has a baby. Milk is a precious commodity which is perfectly balanced, nutritionally, for a rapidly growing infant. When the baby no longer needs it, when it’s time for that infant to start eating solid food, the mother’s body stops producing milk.
This is true of every other mammal. Including cows.
I point this out because, although it’s obvious, people act as though it isn’t so. People have this idea that cows produce milk, that’s just what they do, and if we don’t milk them, they suffer, maybe they die… maybe they explode!
