The Perils of Dairy Products:
Please Refuse Milk Donation and Stop Donating Milk and other Food Products with Milk
by Nona D. Andaya-Castillo, IBCLC
There are documented cases that milk companies donate expired or nearly expired products. Many times, milk companies conceal their unethical marketing practices by donating their products maximizing precious NGO resources to their advantage.
The author of this article exposed many documented milk contamination since 1997. In 2007, having read her expose, whistle-blowers from Wyeth provided the author with a complete list of 4 million cans of milk products contaminated with rusts and molds that were sold secretly by their company to the unsuspecting public. To read the author’s expose click here to read more.
The author is re-issuing this statement to further enlighten the people that milk is NOT a health food and this information is very crucial especially during disaster situations. Aside from many health hazards that it poses, milk is not a sterile food and can contain contaminants like rust, molds, glass particles, microscopic steel flakes, industrial oil, toxic ink, pus from infected cows, powerful antibiotics not intended for humans, preservatives, chemical pesticides, synthetic hormones like estrogen and recombinant Bovine Growth Hormones (rBGH) and harmful micro-organisms like Enterobacter Sakazakii, a virulent bacteria that can cause meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis.
Instead of donating milk, get a list of indigenous foods that are accessible, sustainable and affordable sources of calcium in the Philippines by registering here. These foods are safe to consume even during disaster situation. Disaster survivors also need many items aside from food items. Please also look into these needs before deciding what to donate.
Juvenile Diabetes and Cow’s Milk Protein
In 1992, researchers found that the large dairy protein molecule can trigger auto-immune reaction that can injure the pancreas and impair their ability to produce insulin thus triggering diabetes in children. A specific dairy protein sparks an auto-immune reaction, which is believed to be what destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. - Karjalainen J, Martin JM, Knip M, et al. N Engl J Med 1992
Liver Cancer and Cow’s Milk Protein
In 1965, Prof. T. Colin Campbell, a professor of Nutritional Biochemistry and Co-chair, of the World Cancer Research Fund served for 10 years as coordinator of a U.S. AID project in the Philippines. He discovered that the incidence of liver cancer was especially high among some of the best nourished kids, whose diets were supplemented with powdered milk provided through a U.S.-subsidized program. He was completely baffled until he read about a 1968 research study conducted in India by Madhavan and Gopalan and published in the Archives of Pathology. The study linked a milk protein to liver cancer in lab rats. “That was a signal event for me,” Campbell says.
During the next three decades, he conducted a series of lab experiments at Cornell and Virginia Tech and found that rats given a brief initial exposure to aflatoxin tended to develop liver cancer when fed casein, the main protein in milk. “We could turn on or turn off cancer growth,” he says, by increasing or decreasing the amount of casein.
We encourage you to conduct your own research. Here are some websites we recommend:
Since milk is a big business we can only rely on people’s cooperation and action to help spread this information. We would like to enlist your support through several ways:
As a global public health recommendation, infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health. Thereafter, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods using indigenous foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years and beyond.
World Health Assembly, (WHA) 55th Assembly, 16 April 2002
The practice being introduced in some countries of providing infants with specifically formulated milks (so-called “follow-up milks”) is not necessary.
World Health Assembly (WHA), Resolution 39.28, 1986
Cow’s milk is the number one cause of food allergies in children.
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
“There is no reason to drink cow’s milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans and we should all stop drinking it today.”
“Don’t Drink Your Milk” by Dr. Frank A. Oski, former Director, Department of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This campaign does not endorse the consumption of soya or any other non-human milk. We encourage exclusive breastfeeding up to 6-7 months, continued breastfeeding beyond two years and the consumption of indigenous foods.
Please go to this link to be aware of the hazards of soymilk:
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/08biguglybull.htm
If you are from the Philippines, please register here to get a list of indigenous vegetables that are accessible, sustainable and affordable sources of calcium.
Please Refuse Milk Donation and Stop Donating Milk and other Food Products with Milk
by Nona D. Andaya-Castillo, IBCLC
There are documented cases that milk companies donate expired or nearly expired products. Many times, milk companies conceal their unethical marketing practices by donating their products maximizing precious NGO resources to their advantage.
The author of this article exposed many documented milk contamination since 1997. In 2007, having read her expose, whistle-blowers from Wyeth provided the author with a complete list of 4 million cans of milk products contaminated with rusts and molds that were sold secretly by their company to the unsuspecting public. To read the author’s expose click here to read more.
The author is re-issuing this statement to further enlighten the people that milk is NOT a health food and this information is very crucial especially during disaster situations. Aside from many health hazards that it poses, milk is not a sterile food and can contain contaminants like rust, molds, glass particles, microscopic steel flakes, industrial oil, toxic ink, pus from infected cows, powerful antibiotics not intended for humans, preservatives, chemical pesticides, synthetic hormones like estrogen and recombinant Bovine Growth Hormones (rBGH) and harmful micro-organisms like Enterobacter Sakazakii, a virulent bacteria that can cause meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis.
Instead of donating milk, get a list of indigenous foods that are accessible, sustainable and affordable sources of calcium in the Philippines by registering here. These foods are safe to consume even during disaster situation. Disaster survivors also need many items aside from food items. Please also look into these needs before deciding what to donate.
- To read the White Lies Report on why it dairy products are hazardous to human and environmental health, click here to read more
- To watch the video, The Perils of Dairy Products, click here.
- For the You Tube video click here
- To watch other videos, click here:
- Cow’s milk is a food allergen. The entry of its large dairy protein molecules into our body prompts our immune system to produce mucus to protect itself. This reaction can lead to allergies like asthma. The mucus is also a good breeding ground for germs that can cause pneumonia and other respiratory tract infections. Studies show that milk allergy can cause problems ranging from skin diseases, sleeplessness, diabetes and autism! Read on food allergens by clicking here.
- Many harmful chemicals and synthetic hormones like estrogen and recombinant Bovine Growth Hormones (rBGH) are added to animal feed to hasten their growth or produce more milk, meat and eggs. These can also be found in animal by-products like cheese and butter. Reported cases of premature puberty can be traced to the ingestion of these hormones. There are now children whose menstruation starts at the age of four to eight years old! There was even a TV report of a girl whose menses started at the age of three!
- Contrary to what we are made to believe, studies have shown that cow’s milk can cause rather than prevent osteoporosis. Cow’s milk high protein content increases the blood acidity and forces our body to leach calcium from the bones to increase blood alkalinity to correct the imbalance. So even if you drink a lot of milk, your bones will still lose calcium.
- Cow’s milk protein is hard to digest. It causes distress to internal organs like the liver and kidneys. Its high sodium content used as preservative also severely affects the kidneys.
- Today’s cows are raised in a very unnatural way, forced-fed with pesticide-laced feeds, constantly kept pregnant and grown in factory farms causing them great distress, mastitis and pus, cancerous lesions, leukemia, botulism and other illnesses. They are bombarded with strong antibiotics not fit for human consumption to prevent the spread of disease.
- The processing of cow’s milk is prone to industrial errors e.g. synthetic vitamins and minerals whose combination can be excessive and toxic. Possible accidents that can occur during production or storage can add contaminants like glass particles, microscopic steel flakes, industrial oil, toxic ink, molds and rust.
- There are many contaminants that can be found in today’s milk! Last July 2005 for instance, 30 million liters of Nestle milk were contaminated with IsopropilThioXanthone (ITX), a fixative of printing ink used in offset printing of the company’s logo and design on liquid milk cartons. The magnitude of the contamination affected five countries in Europe. This amount is enough to poison the entire world population twice! Click here to read more
- Metal fragments in milk: Click here to read more
- Glass particles, microscopic steel flakes, industrial oil, etc. in milk: Click here to read more
- Rusts and Molds: http://www.waba.org.my/news/wyeth.htm
- Enterobacter sakazakii (a virulent bacteria that can cause meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis) is another contaminant that may be found in formula milk causing many product recalls even in developed countries like the USA by their Food & Drug Authority (FDA). Virulent Bacteria in Milk: http://www.wabaformula org.my/docs/sakazakien.doc
- If a breastfeeding mother drinks cow’s milk, her baby can have colic, rashes, constipation and trouble with sleeping because the allergens can pass through the breastmilk to her baby.
Juvenile Diabetes and Cow’s Milk Protein
In 1992, researchers found that the large dairy protein molecule can trigger auto-immune reaction that can injure the pancreas and impair their ability to produce insulin thus triggering diabetes in children. A specific dairy protein sparks an auto-immune reaction, which is believed to be what destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. - Karjalainen J, Martin JM, Knip M, et al. N Engl J Med 1992
Liver Cancer and Cow’s Milk Protein
In 1965, Prof. T. Colin Campbell, a professor of Nutritional Biochemistry and Co-chair, of the World Cancer Research Fund served for 10 years as coordinator of a U.S. AID project in the Philippines. He discovered that the incidence of liver cancer was especially high among some of the best nourished kids, whose diets were supplemented with powdered milk provided through a U.S.-subsidized program. He was completely baffled until he read about a 1968 research study conducted in India by Madhavan and Gopalan and published in the Archives of Pathology. The study linked a milk protein to liver cancer in lab rats. “That was a signal event for me,” Campbell says.
During the next three decades, he conducted a series of lab experiments at Cornell and Virginia Tech and found that rats given a brief initial exposure to aflatoxin tended to develop liver cancer when fed casein, the main protein in milk. “We could turn on or turn off cancer growth,” he says, by increasing or decreasing the amount of casein.
We encourage you to conduct your own research. Here are some websites we recommend:
- Website of Mr. John Robbins, the heir to the Baskin and Robbins ice cream empire who turned down the golden opportunity to become a multi-billionaire, exposed the contaminants of milk and meat and the consequences of the consumption of these to our health and the environment (Please read Chapter One of the book Food Revolution in the website.) http://www.foodrevolution.org/food_revolution.htm
- Download the video version of John Robbins’ book (Diet for A New America)
- http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=dietforanewamerica
- Straight from the horses’ mouth! The website of dairy producers discusses the illnesses that plague cattle ranging from mastitis, botulism, cystic ovaries, etc. http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/
- Website of Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products
- Website of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/dairy-industry.aspx
- Website of the USA National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy that provides US Food and Drug Authority’s detailed listing of industrial errors in cow’s milk production.
- http://www.naba-breastfeeding.org/images/Formula%20Recalls.pdf
- The A-Z of diseases that you can get from cow’s milk
- http://www.notmilk.com/
- An interview with T. Colin Campbell, professor of Nutritional Bio-chemistry and co-chair of World Cancer Research Fund who conducted the biggest study on diet and cancer, The China Study
- http://www.mcspotlight.org/people/interviews/campbell.html
Since milk is a big business we can only rely on people’s cooperation and action to help spread this information. We would like to enlist your support through several ways:
- Protect our children from marketing tactics. Turn down offers of sponsorships, school tours, contests, etc. These are all marketing techniques designed to reinforce the habit of milk consumption and circumvent the laws that protect breastfeeding.
- Avoid donating milk, dairy products like cheese and other foods that contain milk (like Nesvita, Milo , Ovaltine, and other chocolate drinks, babyfoods like Cerelac) during disaster relief operations and feeding programs. Instead, provide disaster survivors or your beneficiaries with foods like unpolished rice, sesame seeds, saffron flower locally known as kasubha, beans and root crops and many other vegetables that are rich in calcium but will not endanger the people’s health. These foods are a lot cheaper too, so you can provide assistance to more people. It will also perk up our local agriculture instead spending on imported milk.
- Sponsor talks and lectures of Nurturers of the Earth within your network or field of influence: parents, teachers, children, employees, churchgoers, etc.
- Organize Speakers’ Trainings so we can develop people who can explain the issues to your constituents.
- Help us in the reproduction of reading materials in CD and printed form and distribute it to as many people as possible. Reproduce this letter in your newsletters, company journals, campus newspapers, etc.
- Know the benefits of breastfeeding and the hazards of formula-feeding. http://www.infactcanada.ca/RisksofFormulaFeeding.pdf
As a global public health recommendation, infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health. Thereafter, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods using indigenous foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years and beyond.
World Health Assembly, (WHA) 55th Assembly, 16 April 2002
The practice being introduced in some countries of providing infants with specifically formulated milks (so-called “follow-up milks”) is not necessary.
World Health Assembly (WHA), Resolution 39.28, 1986
Cow’s milk is the number one cause of food allergies in children.
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
“There is no reason to drink cow’s milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans and we should all stop drinking it today.”
“Don’t Drink Your Milk” by Dr. Frank A. Oski, former Director, Department of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This campaign does not endorse the consumption of soya or any other non-human milk. We encourage exclusive breastfeeding up to 6-7 months, continued breastfeeding beyond two years and the consumption of indigenous foods.
Please go to this link to be aware of the hazards of soymilk:
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/08biguglybull.htm
If you are from the Philippines, please register here to get a list of indigenous vegetables that are accessible, sustainable and affordable sources of calcium.
