On average, the dairy industry takes in 7.2 billion dollars per year in Canada. Through effective promotion, dairy products have become one of North America s prime sources of nutrition. To challenge the nutritional purity of milk is equivalent to undermining an important part of our national heritage. Yet more and more books are being written by noted doctors and nutritionists who are making frightening connections to the serious medical plagues rampant in countries with high-dairy consumption. Even the beloved Dr. Benjamin Spock, a child-care expert who was a strong advocate of dairy products for children, has joined the many voices in questioning its nutritional value and even warning of serious possible dangers.
Humans are the only creatures who drink milk their entire lives.
Even growing calves have been given enough sense to leave the teat. Humans are also the only creatures on earth who drink the milk of a species that has an entirely different digestive system from our own four stomachs compared with our one. The Dairy Board has been successful in cultivating the fear, if you don t drink milk, you will be unhealthy . Yet earth s history has been full of isolated communities living on simple sparse diets. Many of those cultures were poor and had little or no dairy or meat products available.