Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Moreover, the further growth of this market is now only being held back by the shortage of supplies.
Organic milk is now being sold by large companies and grocery chains. These include: Horizon Organic, owned by Dean Foods, the nation's largest dairy producer, with $192 million annual sales, comprising 55% of the market; Organic Valley, the second largest seller; and Stonyfield Farms, owned by Groupe Danone, the leading French dairy company. Additionally, large grocery chains, notably Whole Foods Market and Safeway, have their own organic brands. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is something that we should stop serving our children as quickly as possible. (The dairy industry would disagree, of course...)
We should also ban junk foods and fast foods at schools and hospitals. I think it's crazy that some schools have fast food chains right in the cafeteria where children can buy disease-promoting foods for lunch. It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods. There are actually hospitals with McDonald’s restaurants inside the hospital! |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 The government aided the dairy industry in these promotions, advising Americans to eat dairy products for the calcium they contain. The dairy industry soon learned that health messages don't sell milk, and haven't had any better luck with the "white mustache" and
"Got milk?" campaigns that followed. At the same time, the fruit juice industry—again, with government support—has supplemented orange juice and tomato juice with calcium in its citrate/malate form, which aca-demia has found to be more available to the body than the calcium found in milk. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Peter Hardin, editor of the Wisconsin-based dairy industry newspaper The Milkweed, says, "It was the lead off batter that had to get on base—because there was so much corporate influence behind it."8
Years after the drug was on the market, the Canadian scientists compiled a lengthy report that recounted all the various omissions, contradictions, weaknesses, and gaps in the FDA's approval process. It came to be known as the Gaps Analysis Report, and charged that the FDA's "1990 evaluation was largely a theoretical review taking the manufacturer's conclusions at face value. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You can read the propaganda from the dairy industry, and you can go to my website, http://www.notmilk.com, and read. I've written a column every day for the last 5 years. But when it comes down to it, you are your best doctor. Try seven days -- don't eat any dairy products -- no milk or cheese -- 7 days. And on day 8, go treat yourself to pizza, and have ice cream for dessert, see what happens on day 9.
Mike Adams: If you dare, right? |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| Against the position taken by the dairy industry are a few dedicated individual physicians such as Dr Oski and a growing band of supporters who maintain that milk is not a perfect food, that it is not even a good food, and that milk must be used with extreme caution. I would support the idea that all dairy products be labeled with the warning sign applied to cigarette packages, something like "Warning, This Product May Be Hazardous to Your Health. |
| This is good news for the dairy industry, for if milk consumption can be maintained long enough, no matter what the cost, most groups will have developed the ability to retain lactase production. However, it is now possible to swallow lactase tablets before the milk is drunk and to drink lactase treated milk and thus avoid most of the symptoms of lactase deficiency.
This will not solve the problem for the milk allergic individual. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Vermont's Senators Patrick Leahy and James Jeffords asked Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala (who, incidentally had been pictured with a milk mustache as part of the dairy industry's ad campaign) to investigate the FDA's approval and see if it had overlooked key evidence. The FDA responded with a report. Although they admitted that their original safety assessment had failed to review the antibody portion of the rat study, the agency re-affirmed the safety of rbGH. It remains on the market.
The irony of the approval of rbGH in the U.S. |
| According to The Milkweed, "Monsanto notes that pregnancy rates were not lower than rates normally observed in the dairy industry. That's statistical bunk. Reproduction data from that test shows Monsanto counted as pregnant many test cows which were pregnant before the treatments began!"12
Note: Monsanto's own product label warns of many health problems for cows that may occur when treated with rbGH. It also mentions that the milk might contain an increase in somatic cell counts due to increased infections. Somatic cell counts is another term for pus, or dead white blood cells. |
| He figured he would lose advertising revenue from the supermarkets and from the dairy industry. Monsanto might also pull its advertising of agricultural products from Fox affiliates around the nation. Wilson tried to convince the manager to run the story on its merits. He said Monsanto's whole public relations campaign was based on the statement that milk from rbGH-treated cows is "the same safe wholesome product we've always known." But even Monsanto's own studies showed this to be a lie, and it could be endangering the public. |
| And Collier would habitually use the exact phrases that Akre would later hear repeated by other Monsanto and dairy industry spokesmen. "They all say exactly the same thing," recalled Akre. "It's the same wholesome product. . . . The milk is the same. . . . Our federal regulators have said consuming milk and meat from bGH-treated cows is safe. . . . It's not an issue to us or the FDA. . . . This is not something that knowledgeable people have concerns about."1
But Akre did have concerns. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Combine this with essential fatty acid imbalances and possible links to the growth hormones used in the dairy industry and there are multiple reasons why breast cancer rates rise with age and are the leading cause of death in women in the menopausal years (National Center for Health Statistics, 1987).
Again, primary focus is on the relative balance of estrogen and progesterone. While the breasts are saturated with estrogen receptor cells, the presence of sufficient progesterone "downregulates" such receptors, protecting against the powerful "grow" signals of estrogen. |
Marion Nestle
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 The production of milk in the United States has long exceeded demand, and the government has long subsidized the dairy industry through purchases of surplus milk. Monsanto contends that costs to farmers will decline because fewer cows will produce more milk, and the savings will be passed on to consumers. This last benefit seems doubtful, mainly because dairy prices are tightly linked to federal support programs. If prices fall, levels of taxpayer-supported federal spending would increase to protect farm incomes. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The U.S. Department of Agriculture and various other agencies of the U.S. government seem to echo this sentiment. The result is that Americans have an enormous love affair with milk. The average person living in the United States consumes more than 600 pounds of dairy products every year, including about 420 pounds of fluid milk and cream, 70 pounds of various milk-based fats and oils, 30 pounds of cheese, and 17 pounds of ice cream. In all, U.S. dairy farmers produce 163 billion pounds of milk and milk products a year.
Does milk do a body good? |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| It is unrealistic to expect the manufacturers of high-tech food to refer to the possibility that some may be allergic to their product, but it would be refreshing if they did place the health of their customers somewhere above their idea that this would injure their bottom line. The dairy industry touts its products very highly with support from nutritionists and physicians. But they never discuss in their advertisements that many people are made sick by milk.
We are unique as individuals and our needs for nutrients vary as do other biochemical and physical attributes. |
Marion Nestle
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| Equivalent trends are seen in the dairy industry.19 As a further example of such consolidation, Tyson Foods, "the world's largest fully integrated producer, processor and marketer of chicken and chicken-based convenience foods," merged with IBP, "the world's largest supplier of premium fresh beef and pork products," to create the world's largest provider of animal protein. This 2001 merger resulted in a company that controls about 28% of the world's beef, 25% of the chicken, and 18% of the pork. |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| The active defence of dairy products by the dairy industry dismisses airily the findings of legitimate research scientists and nutritionists, including the eminent pediatrician Dr Benjamin Spock. The Dairy Bureau of Canada labels him a "radical animal-rights activist," thus dismissing his attempts to improve our health. This arrogant dismissal of the harm caused by dairy products to many people will simply delay recognition by many patients that they are sick because they cannot tolerate dairy products.
Most mammals feed on their mothers' milk until they have tripled their birth weight. |
Arthur Agatston, M.D.
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 The committee also tended to suspect that those who did not believe that fat was Public Enemy Number One were being unduly influenced by the beef, egg, or dairy industry. The bottom line is that low total fat, high carbohydrate became the orthodoxy, despite the lack of proof that such a diet would improve overall health.
Fats versus Carbs: The Debate
How has America done since the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet recommendations? We've gotten fatter and fatter. In addition, adult-onset diabetes, a sure sign of unhealthy blood chemistry, has become widespread. What went wrong? |
John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
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 The memo was widely distributed to key dairy industry contacts. It contained the schedule of Robbins' book tour and provided this tactical warning: "Do not issue any news release or statement. Doing so only calls attention to his message. . . . Ideally, any response should come from a third party, uninvolved in the dairy industry."15
The September 22, 1981, Washington Post reported that "a single telephone call from a DuPont public relations man to the Book-of-the-Month Club financially doomed an unflattering history of the
DuPont family and its businesses. |
Marion Nestle
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| Monsanto steadfastly resisted demands for labeling of rBGH milk and recruited dairy industry executives to persuade the FDA to establish favorable labeling guidelines. The company hired two Washington law firms to monitor dairies for advertising and labeling violations and to instigate legal action against milk processors who had "inappropriately" misled customers through labeling practices.22 The FDA asked the Food Advisory Committee to hear testimony on the labeling issue. A Monsanto official explained the company's position. |
Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine
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 We need to open our eyes and begin to ask questions about today's dairy industry. How are cows raised? What are they fed? Are they roaming freely and getting sunlight? Are they given antibiotics and growth hormones? Are they hand-milked or machine-milked? Is the milk then pasteurized and homogenized? Are preservatives or other additives such as synthetic vitamin D used?
I favor a moderate intake of organic milk products (unless one is allergic) in the form of yogurt and hard cheeses. |
Henry Pasternak, D.V.M., C.V.A.
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 We must stop pollution at all levels and preserve our oceans, lakes, rivers, mountains, forests, and deserts; we must find biological control of pests while enforcing more humane farming practices. The dairy industry must be allowed to bring back certified raw milk. At present, only California and Georgia are legally allowed to produce certified raw milk. I drink nourishing and wholesome raw milk daily and have not gotten ill; on the contrary, raw certified milk is practically a perfect food. |
Frank A. Oski, M.D.
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 The picture is changing for the older child and the adult as well. The dairy industry is championing the cause for skim milk, low-fat milk, and low-lactose milks. They are in full retreat from their "perfect food" as wave upon wave of new scientific facts call into question the safety of whole cow milk.
In the future, whey-predominate milks will be the sole source of feeding for the infant who does not have the good fortune to be fed human milk. Whey-predominate formulas will be specially prepared to meet the unique nutritional requirements of infants. |
| It is easy to understand this view, which is inspired mainly by the advertising practices and political pressure of the American dairy industry. For many of us, our earliest memories of childhood include our mother's plea, "Hurry up and finish your milk! |
| This "bastard" form of milk was a threat to the dairy industry. If people were allowed to tamper with whole milk the public would begin to ask questions about the "perfect nature" of the product. Congress, by passing legislation which banned interstate commerce in filled milk, placed men like Hauser and his Milnot Company at an economic disadvantage.
In 1973 the federal courts ruled that the Filled Milk Act was unconstitutional. The Food and Drug
Administration declared that filled milk is a safe, wholesome, and proper food. |
D. Lindsey Berkson
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 Dairy
Milk and milk products (say pizza and ice cream) are a sacred cow in the United States, perhaps due to the fact that the United dairy industry Association spends more than $100 million a year on advertising, targeting women. Good consumers that we are, we proudly wear our milk mustaches, and along with the milk we unwittingly swallow bovine growth hormone (bgh), an estrogenic hormone given to cows. Although bgh may be good for dairy farmers because it increases milk production, it may not be good for humans. Why? |
Neal Barnard, M.D.
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 It is interesting to note that human breast milk, which, of course, is designed by nature for human babies, has much less sodium (forty milligrams per cup) than the milk nature designed for baby cows (120 milligrams) or goats (122 milligrams), another reminder that Mother Nature continues to scratch her head when the dairy industry pushes cow's milk as "natural" for people.
Dairy products and meats are not the worst offenders, however. Foods with added salt can push sodium levels much higher. Two ounces of potato chips have 240 milligrams of sodium. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 For one thing, the number of samples tested was small; for another, the testing methods were grossly inadequate for detecting the many drugs used by the dairy industry.
One major concern is the use of sulfa drugs in dairy cows. Sulfamethazine is carcinogenic, and its residues are often found in milk. FDA's own 1990 screening tests indicate that 46 percent of all milk samples tested contained more than one sulfa drug residue. According to the GAO, other sulfa drugs exhibit toxic effects like those produced by sulfamethazine. |
G. Edward Griffin
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 Spurred on largely by the organized dairy industry which wanted the government to pass laws which would hinder competition from non-dairy substitutes, Wiley became nationally famous through his books and speeches against "fraud and poison" in our food. Pioneering the pattern that was followed many years later by Ralph Nader, Wiley succeeded in drumming up tremendous support from both the public and in Congress for government regulation and "protection. " The result was the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 which created the FDA and gave it wide powers over the food and drug industries. |
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