Cow's milk contributes to colic, ear infections, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and many other illnesses. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants under 1 year of age not be fed cow's milk. And in the latest edition of Baby and Child Care , which has been parents' favorite guidebook for three generations, Dr. Spock recommended against feeding milk, cheese, yogurt, and other dairy products to children. There was a time when cow's milk was considered very desirable. But the dairy industry steals the milk and turns the calves into veal.
Human babies belong at their own mothers' breasts.
In addition to the health risks associated with milk, the animals suffer, too. Male calves born on dairy farms are traumatically separated from their mothers at birth, put into veal crates where they are unable even to turn around, and, after 14 weeks in near-total darkness, shipped off to slaughter. By then, many of these babies can hardly walk because their legs are so swollen from standing on slippery waste-covered slatted floors or concrete.