In Is cow’s milk “the worst beverage on earth?”, the Master’s newest column, he takes on the task of debunking PETA’s claims.
I myself drink a fair amount of milk (1%). I was wondering, does it also help with building up one’s teeth?
Anal copyreader comment: the online version needs a new paragraph and a bullet point after the sentence dissing cats.
Has anyone successfully combined milk and beer in a single beverage?
Define “successfully.”
If someone is performing experiments, I volunteer.
My son, when an infant, couldn’t handle milk.
Myself, once i stopped using milk in my cereal (cause I never drank it by itself) and started using soy milk, I stopped getting upper respiratory infections (which I got every single winter for 20+ years).
Coincedence?
I dunno, but I sure don’t like its taste, soymilk tastes just fine.
My fear about milk has always been the growth hormones that cows are given. How much of that is passed through the milk, and what does it do to adults and children?
“As for cats, who cares what’s bad for them?”
I care. And cats have often seemed soothed by a bowl of milk. So, what’s up with this?
And what have you really got against cats anyway? (You had to know that was coming.)
Mmmm… Beermilk.
DITTO!!! Cats are wonderfull animals and loving pets. That comment was totally out of line, Cecil. Bad form, shmuck.
Well, I went and googled “beer milk combination.” Didn’t find any beermilk, BUT I did find something else rather compelling:
(Since it uses dark chocolate and not milk chocolate, I’m afraid it’s officially off-topic.)
Most of this is unknown. The dairy/meat industry has faught tooth and nail to make sure independent studies never are completed, let along publicised. But it’s ok, we’ve got the FDA looking out for us. And their chief is apponted by corrupt politicians - so I’m reassured.
One also has to look at the effect of BGH on the cows themselves. The hormone causes the cow to over produce milk, causing infections of the udders, etc. It’s alright, just give 'em daily doses of antibiotics. How long can they live like that? Well, no fear! Since most cows are fed corn instead of grass, they grow extra fast and are ready for slaughter in half as much time! (never mind the fact that cows can’t properly digest corn, causing stomach sores - needing more antibiotics! yay!).
One of the unofficial, unproved medical consequences of BGH in dairy is early maturation and development. Ever wonder why 9 & 10 year old girls these days are developing breasts and starting developing? The phrase ‘they didn’t look like that when I was 10’ is getting all too true. A personal experience: a friend immediately stopped feeding red meat to her daughter when she was 9 and started developing. The early development ceased, and the girl continued developing a few years later - like normal.
Point: Every other industrialized country IN THE WORLD has banned the use of BGH. Maybe they know something we don’t… or their politicians aren’t as cheap to buy. For a country that supposedly has one of the best standard of livings, and properity, the government doesn’t seem to care what the people eat. Why do we have some of the lowest standards around?
Add BGH to the list of banned foods around the world that are somehow safe for the U.S. to eat. Even starving African countries have recently refused U.S. GM foods. Now that’s balls!
For more information please see:
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/bgh.htm
It was a glib way of saying, “whether it’s bad for cats or not is largely irrelevant in answering the question of whether milk is bad for humans.”
Does ice cream count as a milk product?
I seem to recall being stunned by the concept of a “Beer Float” at a visit to a Redhook Brewery several summers ago. I was too timid to try it.
I couldn’t find any reference to it, although I found something similar: North Face Extreme Stout Float
I’d love to hear if anyone’s actually tasted something like this.
Good for me, bad for me, good, bad, good, bad…brain explosion 
Personal Anecdote Time![sup]*[/sup]
For all my life I’ve drunk milk. Lots and lots of it. Whole as a youngster. Skim as an adult. As a full-grown adult, I still drink about half a gallon of whole milk a day. (Love that Northern European ancestry!)
My height is less than average. Who do I sue to get the dairy industry to put more bovine growth hormone into the product?
When I go without milk for a while (like when I’m on vacation in Mexico for two weeks) I experience no discomfort nor any improvements nor any degradation in overall health.
Never broke a bone in my life.
I’m willing to bet that I can drink a whole gallon of milk (skim, i.e., I don’t know about whole) in one sitting without barfing.
Peace.
[sup]*[/sup]Personal anecdotes are useless.
For many years my brother was a litre and a half guy, until he got a kidney stone at age 21.
So he cut back to a litre a day, and had another kidney stone the next year.
He’s down to about cup a day, and he’s been stone-free for 6 years now.
No one else in my family gets kidney stones, but no one else came close to drinking as much milk as he did.
arak, do you have a cite for BGH? Just wondering where to look for a source that doesn’t have a beef.
[sub]oooh that’s bad…[/sub]
So are you saying that rBGH gets into the milk? Do you have any evidence? Or are you saying that IGF-1 is slightly increased in the milk? This part may be true, but it doesn’t matter - IGF is a protein that has to be digested to get into the body (unless they’re injecting milk into little girls’ bloodstreams nowadays).
Yes, it takes balls to let your own people starve to death, so that they won’t be subjected to the horrors of the food eaten by Americans.
If you have evidence that rBGH given to cows is unhealthy to humans, let’s see it.
All this senseless bashing of PETA everywhere…I’m appalled. Why do we have to be so extreme in this country? We either lash out and attack our loonies, or send them to congress. There must be a middle ground!
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*Originally posted by Barbarian *
** Just wondering where to look for a source that doesn’t have a beef.
…doesn’t have a beef… Bwah ha ha hah hah!
Milk gives cats diarrhea. It used to make my cats sick, and I had a friend who had the WORST time getting her cat to use the litterbox when he was a kitten-he kept crapping in the bathtub. And he had horrible diarrhea. It turned out, her sister was always giving the poor thing milk.
Milk is NOT good for kitties.
Milk is not good for cats. Yogurt, however, is great for cats. My cat wants to drink milk from the cereal bowl, but he vomits afterwards…still, he tries it again the next day…oh well, at least the yogurt makes him happy.