For information on the
health, environmental, and animal welfare consequences of dairy consumption
,
this short PETA factsheet
is excellent.
The veal and dairy industries are inextricably linked
, because dairy cows are the source of the million veal calves who are slaughtered annually.
Find out more about the treatment of veal calves
.
Two excellent summaries of
the health consequences of dairy consumption
can be found on Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) Web site.
Dr. Robert M. Kradjian, M.D., from the Seton Medical Center, wrote an excellent summary of
the health consequences of dairy consumption
for the
American Fitness Professionals and Associates Newsletter
.
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., founder and editor of the most widely read health newsletter in the world,
Health & Healing
, discusses a variety of
health issues related to dairy consumption
,
debunking myths and offering a succinct indictment of dairy consumption
.
Robert Cohen, Executive Director of the Dairy Education Board and author of
Milk: The Deadly Poison
, has an entire Web site devoted to exposing the ill health effects of dairy consumption. Especially useful are the links for "
Scientific Evidence
" and "
Ailments and Illnesses
."
www.notmilk.com
For a short presentation of the evidence that
milk causes, rather than prevents, osteoporosis
, check out PCRM's presentation of the issue.
www.strongbones.org
For information on
breast cancer and milk consumption
, visit these two links from
VegSource
, one of the best all-around vegetarian Web sites:
For a discussion of the
health advantages to feeding kids a diet free of dairy products
,
PCRM's "Nutrition" panel provides an excellent summary
.
Bovine growth hormone (BGH), a synthetic hormone used to boost milk production
in cows across the United States, has been linked to cancer in humans. To learn more about BGH, including how it got approved in the U.S., why it is illegal in Canada, Australia, and the entire European Union, and the link to cancer, read
this article
from
Rachel's Environmental Weekly.
For a shorter presentation of
the link between BGH-treated milk and cancer
in humans, read
this article
by Hans R. Larsen, M.Sc. Ch.E.
An excellent warehouse of Web information on
lactose intolerance, dairy-free products
, and other health consequences of dairy consumption, check out
www.NoMilk.com
.
