The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

The Domination of the Feminine / 111
humans can drink cows’ milk, an unhealthy and perverse action at its
core. The dairy products in our grocery stores are the result of many
centuries of human manipulation and horrific brutality against cows—
a brutality epitomized by today’s mechanized dairy operations, both
large and small.
Pushing Cows to Produce
Cows today are forced to produce a far greater quantity of milk than
they ever would in the wild. This is accomplished through two types of
manipulation—of food and of hormones. 3 In the wild, a cow, like all
mammals, will produce milk after giving birth to a baby, and does so in
a classic bell curve for about seven months, beginning at less than ten
pounds of milk per day, climaxing at about twenty-five pounds per day,
and then tapering back to ten pounds and then to zero as the calf begins
to eat solid food. On today’s dairies the newborn calf is immediately
removed from the mother, causing enormous anguish to both, and the
mother is artificially forced to produce from 90 to 110 pounds of milk
per day for a full seven to eight months. Dairy cows are impregnated at
a much younger age than would ever occur in the wild, and are kept
pregnant virtually continuously, even while they are lactating from the
previous pregnancy. The enormous strain of being pushed so hard to
produce such abnormally large quantities of milk quickly destroys the
health of these cows. Though they would naturally live twenty-five
years in the wild, after about four years of this dairy abuse their “productivity”
drops off. They are then forced to endure the brutality of the
slaughterhouse and be reduced to inexpensive hamburger meat, leather,
and animal feed.
The enormous and continuous abuse to which dairy cow mothers
are subjected makes their milk extremely unhealthy for humans. Besides
the naturally occurring human toxins in cows’ milk, like IGF-1 growth
factor, casein, estrogen, soporific hormones, lactase, pus, bacteria, parasites,
and the apparently addictive casomorphins discussed in Chapter
4, there are the toxins that are a direct result of pushing the cows so
hard: artificially introduced growth hormones, milk-increasing hormones,
antibiotics, tranquilizers, and feeds high in pesticide residues.