In simple terms, dairy is any food made from the milk products of animals, or produced in the mammary glands. Lactose is a type of sugar contained in any mammal’s milk and all humans are born with an intolerance to it. This is caused when the body does not produce enough of the lactase enzyme to break down the lactose. Ironically, milk, cream, butter, cheese and yogurt are all derived from dairy. (http://thedietplate.com/dairy) We consume these products every day.
Dairy has also been linked to being one of the causes of skin conditions such as acne, which affects more than eighty percent of teenagers. Milk proteins such as whey and casein release IGF-1 which increases the production of sebum in your skin, which clogs your pores and creates inflammation. Dairy When we consume dairy products, especially milk, cows are often injected with a growth hormone called rBGH to increase their milk production. It is never stated what is in the milk we are consuming. So why do we consume products that our body is not meant to consume?. The dairy industry has become one
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Maintenance of farms and cows is hard work, requiring long hours of work and physical labor. To keep dairy farms clean of infections and bacteria, water usage is a must. Flushing systems are used for manure and can use up to 150 gallons of water per cow, per day with an average of five hundred cows present in a farm. Daily, an average sized farm uses around one hundred thousand gallons of water every day, only for the disposal of manure. In a world where one billion people have no access to drinkable water and two point five billion people are without toilets, and billions of people living in unsanitary conditions,(http://www.ecorazzi.com/2012/03/22/world-water-day-10-places-most-in-need-of-clean-water/) why do we continue to harm the world by wasting water to consume animal products that do nothing but harm our bodies and the