What do you take for granted?

[Yelleryella123]

If we don't ask the hard questions and fight for the truth, we might never realize they allow pus and blood in our milk and call it the "Somatic Cell count". Cows never see grass. They are in a modern concentration camp packed into tight spaces, pumped with hormones and gmo corn that they can't properly digest with pumps on their tits that give them infections. It is those infections and the use of the pumps that cause them to bleed and pus out, and that is why our milk is pasteurized and is no longer as nutritional as it used to be. Pasteurization kills bacteria, it doesn't get rid of the pus. These cows are milked for what they are worth, literally, and their calves are ripped away - they never get to taste a drop of their mothers milk because it would take away from the money made by those of us innocently drinking our egg nog at Christmas time. Many of us are as ignorant to what is happening in our own "back yards" as the masses of people who didn't know about the holocaust while it was happening.

I grew up on a dairy farm. This is one of the bigger loads of bullshit I've heard, sorry. Our cattle grazed in open pastures and their diets were supplemented with lucerne and hay. Any cow with an infection was milked separately (for her own comfort and to ensure that her supply didn't dry up). Calves are separated from their mothers within a day, this is true. However, they are still fed milk, especially the first milk (which contains colostrum). As children, it was our job to hand feed the calves from baby's bottles. They were well loved, I assure you. The calf paddock was one of my favourite places. A large number of bobby calves were taken for slaughter, but this is no different to other meat industries and on our farm and the farms of everyone else I knew, they were never mistreated. Every care was taken to ensure that animals were always treated humanely and with as much kindness as possible.

Unfortunately, deregulation of the dairy industry means that consumers rejoice at the supermarket, but the price of milk is less than the cost of production. To make farming profitable, farmers have had to turn to other supplementary products but again, none I know have cut costs by reducing the care they give to their stock. It may be that Australia is different to other countries but I doubt it. Most people who live on the land love both the land and the livestock they work with. Generalisations by "animal rights" organisations never see the whole picture.

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As for osteoporosis, milk can't solve everything. Sitting on your fat arse doing nothing is not conducive to strong bones. Drinking excessive amounts of processed coffee leaches calcium from the body. Staying indoors and not getting enough vitamin D from sunlight decreases bone mass. Smoking. Certain medications. Crash dieting. Bloody hell, you're putting a lot of pressure on a cow to save your skeleton!

Thank you for enlightening me. I still take issue with the information I have heard and seen, but I respect your reply and your personal experience. I can't know for certain if your experience is the case for agribusiness as a whole as I have seen and heard other experiences and stories of how the business has changed over the years with increase in demand. I recognize that not every farm treats their animals inhumanely, which is why I try to buy local and do the research I can. Yes, animal rights activists can be biased, being emotionally invested in these animals can prevent them from seeing the full picture.

No, milk can't solve everything when it comes to osteoporosis and it is also not necessarily the primary cause - there are many contributing factors. The information is something to consider and research, a different view on milk. What I have shared is an example of information that affects me deeply, if it absolutely true in every case I cannot be absolutely certain which is one of the reasons I wrote, "why are there so many conflicting facts?" I'd rather be safe than sorry until I can get a full picture of what is happening.

I got emotional while writing, I am sorry if I offended you