NOT Milk!

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   When I tell people I don't drink milk they look at me like I must be from a different planet! Of course the next question I get is "where do you get your Calcium from". It really amazes me that with all the technology and science we have available today at the press of a button, the mindless masses still learn how to live by watching TV commercials. Did it ever occur to them that the people who make the commercials are the people benefiting from the sale of the product? They learn what to drink, what to drive, the kind of pants to wear, the kind of poison to put on their skin and of course what to eat from TV. Whatever is in fad, low fat, green is the new black, juice boxes, where to buy your coffee and what kind of phone makes you look cool. They have to fit in and follow as not to be criticized for not fitting in,  in so perpetuating the lies and stupidity of it all. I call this the Lemming Effect, they will follow each other blindly over a cliff just to be a part of the crowd.

  As you may have guessed by now I look to Nature to learn the right things to do to be healthy. I remember I was teaching a class in Primitive Technologies to a group of forth graders and during lunch the fact that I was drinking only water seemed to fascinate the kids (and the teacher), as if drinking water was such a foreign thing to them. I explained that water was THE only thing humans should be drinking because in nature that is the only thing there is for animals to drink. With a few exceptions, like those that drink flower nectar, thats all any other natural animal on the planet drinks. There are no gatorade trees or soda falls or streams to drink from. There are no orange juice ponds or fruit juice lakes to drink from and no chocolate milk aquifers. Then of course the question of drinking milk came up and they ask why I don't drink milk. I answered, "because I am not a cow"! They looked at me perplexed. This may seem like a simple statement but it is very deep in its meaning. I explained that milk is species specific and is only used for a short period of time for babies of that species till they are developed enough to start eating real food. No other animal in Nature drinks the milk of another animal. I asked if they could imagine a Mouse going to a Deer to suckle for milk. I also explained that once an animal is weaned it never drinks milk again for the rest of its life. Humans are the only animal that drinks the milk of another species and we continue to drink milk for our whole lives, and no other animal in Nature ever does that. As a mater of fact, Humans didn't even do that for all the time they have been evolving up until recently in our evolutionary history and now we have broken two rules of nature at once!

  Breaking the laws of nature always comes with a price. It may seem we have been smart to take advantage of this easily gotten food source, and maybe it wasn't such a bad thing when we started taking Raw milk full of all the enzymes and vitamins and minerals from wild animals once in a while, who fed on their natural diets, as a survival food source when we needed it to stay alive during hard times . But to exasperate the problem we decided to "improve" on the real thing. We domesticated animals, started feeding them things they would never eat in Nature, pumped them full of anti-biotic's, steroids, pesticides and fungicides from their un-natural foods, enclosed them in an area where they can't move to get natural exercise to keep them healthy and we expect to get a healthy product from this system. Than we take the milk and destroy any health giving effects it still might have and pasteurize and homogenize it to kill all nutritional value it may have had left. The milk at this point does not resemble anything found in nature, to top it off, this crap is full of sub-clinical doses of anti-biotics, growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides, allergens, rodent feces, and puss just to name a few. So, not only are we drinking something that evolution shows us we shouldn't be drinking in the first place but than we take it and turn it into something that should never exist on the face of this Earth at all. Hey, lets sell it to the mindless masses as a "Health Drink", they'll believe us!
  Than of course the subject of calcium always comes up. It amazes me how brainwashed people are that every person that I talk to about milk asks the exact same question, " so where do you get your calcium from ?" First of all, most of the Calcium in milk is not usable by Humans. Second, green leafy vegetables have way more bio-available calcium than milk. You never hear that on a TV commercial! Also, milk actually helps cause osteoporosis, contrary to one of the main arguments for drinking milk from the dairy industry in the first place. Having an alkaline body is extremely important to being healthy. Again, look to Nature to see how important PH is to health. Ever have a fish tank? Keeping the PH correct to the specific species is one of the most important things to having a healthy fish tank. Ever own a pool? Keeping the PH correct is vitally important to a healthy pool. Why is acid rain so bad for our lakes, rivers, streams and forests ? It changes the PH of course!  I bet if you have a pool or a fish tank you check the PH at least weekly, when was the last time you checked the PH of your blood or your body?
  Milk is an acid forming food, and your blood needs to be Alkaline for you to be healthy, heck to be alive! Your body knows how important it is to keep a proper blood PH and will do anything to keep it that way, including taking calcium from you bones so you don't die. Sounds to me like osteoporosis in the making! 

  The dairy industry has such a strong lobby and has so much money for promotion and so many politicians in their back pocket that the truth about drinking milk will never be in the mainstream. So all the health problems associated with feeding our youth, you know, the ones we are supposed to be taking care of, milk for their whole lives will continue. So, as bacteria begin to get more and more anti-biotic resistant from the anti-biotics we ingest on a daily basis and our immune systems get weaker and weaker from the pesticides etc. and other pollutants we ingest all day from the milk, food, air and water we take in, add this to the new tropical diseases and insects moving north because of climate change, we have a recipe for disaster on a global scale not seen or imagined in recent human history. Got milk?

Peace