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Originally Posted by AlethiaSi
I know it won't be easy, but after reading up about the conditions in slaughter houses, what animals have to go through, the amount of chemicals in said meat and in milk are enough to turn my stomach. It's worth it to me to keep those chemicals away from my body.
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I just wanted to take a minute to address the misconception about hormones in dairy. Some dairy farmers choose to use synthetic hormones with some of their cows as a management tool on their farm. The hormones are a synthetic version of a naturally occurring hormone called bovine somatotropin and given to the cows, not added to milk. If you take a glass of milk from a cow treated with supplemental hormones and compare it in a laboratory to a glass of milk from a cow not treated, you will not be able to tell the difference. All vitamins are hormones and naturally occur in most foods. Also, your body does not absorb bovine hormones... they are processed and passed through your digestive system.
As for chemicals, milk is one of the most highly regulated and tested foods in America. From farm to table, milk goes through up to 17 tests for quality and contaminants. If it's not perfect, it's pitched. Dairy farmers take pride in producing safe, wholesome, nutritious milk.
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