Another Reason to Give Up Milk: Does It Really Do The Body Good?

By Andrew Martin, Collective Evolution, December 7, 2015

“Producing the peak yield of 35 litres of milk per day has been compared to a person jogging for six hours, seven days a week.”

Hannah Velten, Cow.

Health Reasons

A large study coming from researchers at the Uppsala University in Sweden found that drinking milk led to an increased mortality rate and actually made bones more prone to fracturing, not less.(1)

The study was recently published in the peer reviewed British Medical Journal, and was specifically conducted to examine whether high milk consumption is associated with mortality and fractures in both men and women.

This is not the only study done regarding the health claims of the food industry, you can read more about it in this article.

Environmental Impacts

Cows and calves are not the only casualities of dairy farming. Like most Western countries, vast areas of once thriving forests have been cleared to make way for pasture. In New Zealand almost 70% of the natural forests and ecosystems have been decimated in an effort to farm sheep, cattle, and dairy cows. As the recent article ‘A Leading Cause Of Climate Change That No One Is Talking About’ featured on Collective Evolution illustrated, raising animals for food consumption uses 30% of the world’s water, 45% of the world’s land, and is responsible for 91% of the destruction of the rain forest. Among these shocking figures, animal agriculture is also the leading cause of the ocean’s dead zones, the leading cause of habitat destruction, and the leading cause of species extinction.(4)