I have always had a pathological abhorrence for milk. It’s far too white for my liking. Healthy things are black, like coffee and Guinness.

About ten years ago, Monsanto started pumping cows with bovine growth hormone to increase milk yields. It hurts the cows. They get puss in their teats, which winds up in the milk and it also gives them bone cancer. BGH is a bit deadly to humans as it is thought to causes prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women.

In a very amusing little book called, “50 Things You Are Not Supposed to Know”, I read of a secret that has been kept from consumers for years. Cows suffer from a type of leukemia known as BLV. Eighty-nine percent of all herds in America have BLV and it is especially bad in the Southeast region where 99% of herds have the tumor-causing bug.
In theory the virus is killed when the milk is pasteurized and in fact, no one knows if that is true or not. Several medical studies have found a correlation between higher milk/beef consumption and leukemia or lymphoma.

Latte, cappuccino, anyone? I don’t know, might not be a good idea.

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