IF YOU’RE A CHEESE LOVER LIKE I WAS, YOU’LL KNOW HOW HARD IT IS HAVING TO GIVE UP IT’S DELICIOUS FLAVOUR FOR HEALTH OR MORAL REASONS.
Even though it’s fairly well known that regular cheese is like eating a ticking time bomb when it comes to your health…
- It’s high in salt which leads to risk of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes…
- It’s chock full of artery clogging saturated fat that some doctors call a heart attack waiting to happen…
- And rammed full of calories meaning it piles on the pounds…
But what you may not know,
Is that every mouthful of cheese you eat,
legally contains a certain amount of pus from cows udders…
It’s gross and if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably never heard about this before...
Let me explain…
You see 99% of dairy cows are kept pregnant for much more of their lives than they would be naturally,
This is so that they can be milked much more than they would be in the wild,
Using large machines to get as much milk out of them as possible.
These machines cause enormous pressure and stress on the cows and their udders.
Meaning up to 1 in 6 cows suffer from something called mastitis.
Which in simple terms is an infection of the udder due to over milking.
This is such a common occurrence in America that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) legally allows an acceptable limit of
“somatic cells”.
Which is a nice way of saying
pus.
Yea, the same stuff you squeeze out of a spot.
In all dairy products.
And those gross infected cells go right into the cheese that then ends up on supermarket shelves.
And ultimately people end up eating.
According to the USDA themselves.
There are up to 1 million pus cells in just a tablespoon of the milk that is used to make cheese.
But this is just one part of the dairy industry that they don’t want you to know about…
It gets worse.
THE HEARTBREAKING PLIGHT OF THE MOTHER COW RIPPED FROM HER CHILD OVER AND OVER AGAIN… I.E. WHERE CHEESE COMES FROM...
If you’re a vegetarian or meat eater that thinks eating cheese or milk isn’t that cruel, think again .
Because by many measures the dairy industry is actually much crueler than the meat industry.
A dairy cow is put through so much stress in her lifetime...
That the average lifespan is half of what a natural cow would live to…
It starts when a cow is old enough to be artificially inseminated for the first time.
That’s a nice way of saying impregnated by a human.
(The dairy industry has a lot of these terms that makes horrible things sound normal.)
A dairy farmer uses his fist to prepare the cow for artificial insemination.
Once sufficiently loosened up she’s locked into a steel gurney and a large turkey baster like device is used to impregnate her.
When she eventually gives birth her calf is brutally ripped from her straight away.
Cows make a horrible wailing sound for days after this as they mourn the separation from their baby.
If the calf is male it is either sold off for veal, or it is slaughtered on site and discarded.
If the calf is a female she’ll be kept on the dairy farm in a separate location until old enough to be inseminated herself.
Once she’s given birth, the cow starts getting milked on a daily basis.
She’s pumped full of hormones regularly to ensure she keeps producing milk for much longer than she naturally would.
This increased amount of milking is what leads to the udder infections I mentioned earlier.
Now, even with all the extra hormones eventually the milk dries up and the cow is artificially impregnated again to start the cycle all over.
All this means the average dairy cow lives to about half the age it naturally would.
When i first learned all this i was shocked…
As you may well be…