I just read a question on here and it said an experiment on milk showed it had pus and blood in it ?

Question

Do you think this is true ? I mean, I know there are those tags on cows ears that are used to keep off or kill ticks and parasites and the poison and chemicals in them is transmitted to us through the milk, and the hormones that they give them so they will produce more milk is passed to us also and that's why some of the children in this country are developing breats from it,even the boys.What does everyone think of this ?

Answer 1

Dairy cows usually receive little to no vet treatment and cows with mastitis are routinely hooked up to machines that have no sense of how tough or sensitive and cows mammaries may be.

Answer 2

Have some … pus with your cookies? If you down a glass of cow’s milk, you will. It may be white, but researchers say that every cupful contains somatic cells, i.e., pus.

The dairy industry knows that there is a problem with pus in milk. Accordingly, it has developed a system known as the “somatic cell count” to measure the amount of pus in milk. The somatic cell count is the standard used to gauge milk quality. The higher the somatic cell count, the more pus in the milk.

Any milk with a somatic cell count of higher than 200 million per liter should not enter the human food supply, according to the dairy industry. Therefore, anyone living in a state where the somatic cell count is higher than 200 million shouldn’t be drinking milk. There’s only one problem—every state but Hawaii is producing milk with pus levels so high that it shouldn’t enter the human food supply! At the bottom of this page, you can see how high the pus levels in your state’s milk are. Even the national average, at 322 million, is well above the industry’s limit.

One culprit causing the hundreds of millions of pus cells in every liter of milk may be “bovine growth hormone,” the Monsanto chemical company’s growth hormone marketed as Posilac. Posilac is now widely used by dairy farmers to increase the amount of milk that their already overburdened cows produce. Because cows are not built to produce this much milk, they are prone to a painful udder infection called mastitis. When they are milked, pus and bacteria from the infection flow right along with the milk. The journal Nature reported that Posilac increases somatic cells—pus—in the milk by a whopping 19 percent! Researchers estimate that an ordinary glass of milk contains between one and seven drops of pus. This isn’t just disgusting—it can also be dangerous. Pus can contain paratuberculosis bacteria, which are believed to cause Crohn’s disease in human beings.

Dairy farmers try to control the rampant mastitis with large doses of antibiotics—but these antibiotics also wind up in the milk. Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of too many antibiotics, which researchers believe can inhibit the development of the immune system.

Dairy farmers don’t tell consumers that every glass of milk is contaminated with pus, bacteria, and perhaps with paratuberculosis. The only way to avoid drinking pus is to avoid cow’s milk.

Answer 3

i am not vegan but i believe its true, it is very nasty what people do to animals that is one reason vegans do not drink milk.

Answer 4

Yes it is so true.

I havent drank milk in years...

I drink soy milk now :)

Answer 5

Read the book "Milk: The Deadly Poison" it will tell you everything you need to know about the dairy industry and the fast food industry and what really happens. I only read half a chapter of the book and I was grossed out. My high school teacher told me the facts of the book and ever since then I've switched to Soy.

Answer 6

Yes there is pus in milk. If there wasn't, the FDA wouldn't have establish guidelines on how much pus is "acceptable" for milk (i say none). The actual hormone (rbGH) which is used to increase milk yeild is NOT passed on to us because the protein is denatured during pasteurization (i did my undergrad. research paper on this.) but there are still components that can affect humans as a result of rbGH (just not the actual hormone). Also, in my year researching rbGH I was never able to find any substantial evidence linking it to estrogen in boys (that is a misnomer), however there is a correclation with prostate and breast cancers and the hormone.

Posilac (rbgh hormone) increases the rate of mastitis in cows (something that Monsanto, its producers, acknowledge on their website), which in turn increases the pus in milk. With an increase in mastitis, farmers usually give their cows more antibiotics to fix it, so rbgh milk might have stronger strains of bateria that are resistant to the antibiotics, although pasteurization kills most (not all though). Milk naturally has strep bacteria in it.

Answer 7

I believe that it is more than possible.  The way that they got milk years ago is far different than the massive dairy conglomerates that are the majority of the dairy market today in the United States.

It isn't like they are hand milking the cows - injury to the udder using machines is more than possible.

The tags on the ears of the cattle are a way of tracking and monitoring the heard that they are part of and and really has nothing to do with keeping off ticks or parasites.

Answer 8

Not surprising. Even my kids said it's a kinda possibility. Animal juice.

Answer 9

yeah its true, but its minimal and natural, all milk has pus and blood, just like chicken eggs, or meat.....

Answer 10

Hi Raven,

Yes I absolutely believe this to be true. I have also read that they put bleach in milk to make it so completely white. That's why I no longer drink store-bought milk. We bought our own dairy cow, but before that I found a local organic dairy farm to buy milk from.

Answer 11

milk would only have blood and pus in it if the cow had an infection in the mammary glands. otherwise, no, there would be no pus formation to get into the milk, and no broken blood vessels.

Answer 12

Vegetarians sustain their faith on a mythology not so different from that of other religions. We "learn" that Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln were vegetarians (which of course they were not) and little is said about Adolf Hitler, who was a vegetarian.

We "learn" that all food animals suffer, that animal-derived foods are all terribly unhealthy in one way or another, and that somehow deviating from the predilections of the gastrointestinal system that evolution has given us is a good, healthy thing to do.

As a healthy, active, lifelong 75-year-old omnivore, I reserve the right to be skeptical (to say the least.)

Answer 13

yeah i think its true. they meat and dairy industry are absolutley disgusting.

Answer 14

I think it's totally unnatural to drink milk from a lactating animal- of course it makes us grow! It's supposed to jump start a calf so it gains 900 pounds in a year! Add weight-gain hormones to that, and you've got some fat little humans running around.

And yeah, cows teats are dirty, even when they are healthy. cows lay in their own p**p. And when there's a break in the skin on their udders, chafing from a milking machine, well, you do the math. Rub p**p and dirt in a blister everyday and see what happens.

Answer 15

It's true. But the proportion is similar to a drop in an olympic sized swimming pool.

Bottled water has an allowable number of fly parts per number of liters.

Fruits and vegetable shave an allowed number of insect parts fertilizer and manure residue

And tofu has Plaster of Paris 9the same used in bone casts)as a coagulaying agent. Plus many tofu makers use shrimp and fish broth to in which to soak gthei beeans before grinding..

EtcEtcEtc.

Answer 16

The sad truth is, commercial milk is full of nasty stuff.  Commercial dairy cows are kept in horrid conditions, making them susceptible to disease-so they are routinely medicated with steroids, growth hormones, antibiotics, and other things just to make them survive their confinement.  They are so heavily overmilked, that yes, their utters often develop sores, which can pass blood, pus and bacteria into the milk.  Since the milk is full of bacteria, it is pasturized to kill of that bacteria.  That heating also kills off all of the nutrients and beneficial enzymes in the milk.  Milk is also put into tanker trucks, so the milk you buy at the grocery store may contain the milk from many different cows at different dairy locations.  Since milk looses most of its nutrients during pasturization, nutrients, such as vitamin D are added back in synthetically.  The vitamin D in commercial milk is actually a steroid.  Also, many people (myself included) are "lactose intolerant", or allergic to commercial milk due to all of the added garbage.  Even the most highly allergic people will do fine on RAW, ORGANIC milk, which is straight from the cow, with nothing added.  Most raw milk comes from animals fed a proper diet, which is not full of unnatural stuff or medications, so the "lactose intolerant" people usually do great on it.  I didnt have milk or dairy products for over 10 years, until I learned about raw milk.  Now, raw milk is a staple in my diet.  I make yogurt, cheese, kefir, butter and other good things with the raw milk I get from my cows.  Its sad that most consumers are not even aware of these things.  For more info, check out http://www.factoryfarming.org, and click on the "dairy" link.  You could try to find a local source for raw milk through a food co op or local dairy.  Raw milk is soooooooooo much better for you!  As for the situation with children, yes, its true that kids are developing at a rapid rate-likely due to the growth hormones in meat and milk.  My 13 year old daughter is vegetarian, and drinks only raw milk.  She is much more proportionate for her age than her friends.  She is tall and lean, and has glowing skin, hair and nails.  No skin problems, no over development, and she hasn't been sick in years.  Most of her friends are overweight, have skin issues, and get frequent colds and stomach "flu".  Its proof enough for us that the stuff available in stores today as "food" is really not healthy.