Attentive parents are noting that when milk and dairy products are eliminated from their children's diets, so too are colic and colitis, earaches, colds and congestion. One bovine protein in milk destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Sixty percent of America's dairy cows have leukemia virus, and after cows graze in fields treated with pesticides, their milk contains a toxic brew of chemicals. Consumers shouldn't drink a fluid that contains high levels of antibiotics and today's farmers are permitted to give their animals increased levels. At the start of 1990, the standard allowable amount of antibiotics in milk was one part per 100 million, and that amount was increased 100 times to one part per million by the end of that year.
Milk also contains harmful hormones.
By a great biological coincidence, IGF-1 is identical in both cows and humans. That means that when we drink milk containing this growth factor 1, we also take in an added amount of a powerful growth hormone which is already produced by our own bodies. While strong digestive acids and enzymes in the human stomach destroy powerful growth-hormones present in such foods as steak, when we drink milk these stomach acids are diluted and no longer destroy these hormones. That tainted milk also may have contained live leukemia virus, tuberculosis virus and vast assortments of other infectious organisms. No records were kept to monitor subsequent cases of encephalitis, meningitis or leukemia.