There are dirty little secrets inside every glass of commercial milk

This American milk

A little girl sits at a kitchen table. In front of her is a glass of fresh, cold milk.

Scenes of Americana don’t get much more wholesome than that.

But it’s an illusion. Because that glass of milk is far from wholesome. In fact, it isn’t even healthy.

The muck and the mire

Oh the irony…

What makes that milk so unhealthy is exactly what we’ve been brainwashed into believing is the only thing that makes it safe enough to drink: pasteurization.

In fact, pasteurized milk should never pass that child’s lips. Or your lips. Or anyone’s. That’s because it’s fresh, cold junk.

Now, for years, we’ve all heard just the opposite. “Pasteurization kills bacteria.” “It is what makes milk safe and wholesome.”

Don’t believe a word of it.

Let’s start with the “wholesome” lie…

Pasteurization strips away nutrients like CLA, an essential fatty acid that boosts metabolism. Milk, straight from a healthy cow, contains FIVE TIMES more CLA than it does after it’s pasteurized.

Other valuable nutrients are also depleted. They include…

* Vitamin C

* Amino acids

* Key enzymes

* Magnesium

* Calcium

That’s right — calcium! And the missing magnesium makes it harder for your body to absorb what little calcium survives.

Also missing: bacteria. The whole point of pasteurization is to kill bacteria. But that includes beneficial bacteria that your digestive tract needs to function smoothly.

So everything that would actually make milk a healthy choice gets destroyed during the process of pasteurization.

And it doesn’t stop there. Because dairy farmers who pasteurize their milk also do much, much worse.

Factory farms are filthy places, which tends to make the cows unhealthy. So farm workers dump antibiotics in the animal feed. And, of course, traces of the drugs end up in the milk.

I wish I could tell you that antibiotics are the only junk that gets into the milk. But we’ve barely gotten started. And fair warning — some of these items might turn your stomach…

* Growth hormones

* Painkillers

* Pesticides

* Herbicides

* Blood

* Pus

* E. coli

* Fecal matter

Could it get any worse? Yes it could. Here’s the final insult…

Cows would naturally graze on grass if allowed. But factory farm cows never see a pasture. Workers feed them genetically modified corn and soy. But some farmers have found an even cheaper, lower-quality feed… Candy.

Seriously. They feed their cows candy and sugar-rich kids’ cereals. The very same things you’re trying to get off your child’s plate!

So to start, after its pasteurized, that milk is pretty much nothing but low-quality fat and sugar — and then we add the lovely list of ingredients above.

Suddenly that kitchen-table scene seems much more Amityville horror than pure Americana.

Sources:
“Wisconsin Farmer to Stand Trial for Selling Raw Milk” Sarah Begley, The Daily Beast, 5/12/13, thedailybeast.com