The Salads are pumped full of chemicals and pesticides as with the apples. The juices hold next to know nutritonal value and milk is terrible for your health it greatly increases your risk of several forms of cancer and diseases like parkinsons, alzheimers and heart. Plus despite what the media tells you it actually causes osteoporosis thanks to a protein called Casein which actually leeches more calcium out of your body than milk puts in. The calcium in milk is extremely hard for your body to absorb as well.Did you also know that milk is contaminated with faeces and due to a large number of cows contracting Mastitis an incredibly painfull infection of the udder milk is also contaminated with blood and puss. The industry actually deems it acceptable to have a certain level of blood and puss cells in milk, this is considered normal. Check out A Delicate Balance or Forks Over knives if you want to find out how incredibly sick the food you are eating is making you and how you can eat healthy.
By having tolerated levels of 'contamination', it's not that the industry is trying to slip anything past anyone, it's just because it's completely unavoidable so there has to be a standard. But there's standards such as these with virtually all foods.
They can avoid it though. It is because factory farmed animals are not protected under animal rights laws, they are simply deemed a commoditity. It is because they are not protected that 99% of them do not recieve veterinary care. It is lack of vet care and the fact they are over-milked and keeped in filthy conditions that leads to them having Mastitis (and incredibly painfull infection)which in turn is responsible for the blood and puss secretions.
There are very few good dairy mills left these days as they are being run out of business by the larger ones which have substanded conditions. I know because I am an animal activist and I visit these mills all the time and see the filthy conditions and the poor state the cows are in. At the end of the line all the milk tankers pump the milk into huge vats where it is mixed with milk from various dairy farms so even if milk from one farm is clean it will be spoiled because of a contaminated milk from another farm. Are your parents still in posession of their dairy farm? If not how long ago did they sell?
Every single farm's milk is sampled and tested every single time the milk is picked up. It is tested for bacteria, somatic cells, water content, antibiotics, butter fat and so on. If a farm tests below standard, that farm pays for the entire tanker of ruined milk. As you can imagine, that's incredibly expensive. Also, farmers are paid a wholesale price by weight for the milk (unless of course they bottle their own, but most don't), and paid bonuses for higher butterfat. There's GREAT incentive for the farmer to provide high quality milk, as you can see. Unsellable milk is very costly, not just from lost income but because you still have to feed the cow(s) that are not producing, which is incredibly expensive as well. The milk companies who buy wholesale milk don't care if a sample tests badly, because they're still going to get paid for the ruined milk, and the farmer desperately doesn't wnt to ruin the milk tanker, so there's no incentive for either party to try to get contaminated milk through. It's exactly the opposite.
In the US, over 90% of farms are what is considered 'small family farms'.
I'm not sure what you mean by poor condition...cows are supposed to produce milk for the farm, if they are not fed and cared for properly that defeats the whole purpose as they won't be producing (or producing well).
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The Salads are pumped full of chemicals and pesticides as with the apples. The juices hold next to know nutritonal value and milk is terrible for your health it greatly increases your risk of several forms of cancer and diseases like parkinsons, alzheimers and heart. Plus despite what the media tells you it actually causes osteoporosis thanks to a protein called Casein which actually leeches more calcium out of your body than milk puts in. The calcium in milk is extremely hard for your body to absorb as well.Did you also know that milk is contaminated with faeces and due to a large number of cows contracting Mastitis an incredibly painfull infection of the udder milk is also contaminated with blood and puss. The industry actually deems it acceptable to have a certain level of blood and puss cells in milk, this is considered normal. Check out A Delicate Balance or Forks Over knives if you want to find out how incredibly sick the food you are eating is making you and how you can eat healthy.
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By having tolerated levels of 'contamination', it's not that the industry is trying to slip anything past anyone, it's just because it's completely unavoidable so there has to be a standard. But there's standards such as these with virtually all foods.
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They can avoid it though. It is because factory farmed animals are not protected under animal rights laws, they are simply deemed a commoditity. It is because they are not protected that 99% of them do not recieve veterinary care. It is lack of vet care and the fact they are over-milked and keeped in filthy conditions that leads to them having Mastitis (and incredibly painfull infection)which in turn is responsible for the blood and puss secretions.
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Well that's just not true. My family owned and operated a dairy for over 18 years, and that's simply not true at all.
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There are very few good dairy mills left these days as they are being run out of business by the larger ones which have substanded conditions. I know because I am an animal activist and I visit these mills all the time and see the filthy conditions and the poor state the cows are in. At the end of the line all the milk tankers pump the milk into huge vats where it is mixed with milk from various dairy farms so even if milk from one farm is clean it will be spoiled because of a contaminated milk from another farm. Are your parents still in posession of their dairy farm? If not how long ago did they sell?
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No, they sold the dairy cows about 9 years ago.
Every single farm's milk is sampled and tested every single time the milk is picked up. It is tested for bacteria, somatic cells, water content, antibiotics, butter fat and so on. If a farm tests below standard, that farm pays for the entire tanker of ruined milk. As you can imagine, that's incredibly expensive. Also, farmers are paid a wholesale price by weight for the milk (unless of course they bottle their own, but most don't), and paid bonuses for higher butterfat. There's GREAT incentive for the farmer to provide high quality milk, as you can see. Unsellable milk is very costly, not just from lost income but because you still have to feed the cow(s) that are not producing, which is incredibly expensive as well. The milk companies who buy wholesale milk don't care if a sample tests badly, because they're still going to get paid for the ruined milk, and the farmer desperately doesn't wnt to ruin the milk tanker, so there's no incentive for either party to try to get contaminated milk through. It's exactly the opposite.
In the US, over 90% of farms are what is considered 'small family farms'.
I'm not sure what you mean by poor condition...cows are supposed to produce milk for the farm, if they are not fed and cared for properly that defeats the whole purpose as they won't be producing (or producing well).