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Beginning as early as 6,000 years ago. The ability to digest milk was slowly gained some time between 5000-4000 B.C.E by the spread of genetic mutation called lactase persistence, meaning it’s an inherited trait in which levels of lactase do not decline after weaning. Despite that milk is a nutrition to help us grow as adults. What is the real truth behind milk and the intake used for humans? Here are the ingredients added to cow’s milk:

A Veritable Hormone Cocktail: including pituitary, steroid, hypothalamic, and thyroid hormones.
Gastrointestinal Peptides: nerve and epidermal growth factors, and the growth inhibitors MDGI and MAF rBGH (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone): a genetically engineered hormone directly linked to breast, colon and prostate cancer. This is injected into cows to increase milk production.
Pus: National averages show at least 322 million cell-counts of pus per glass! This is well-above the human limit for pus-intake, and has been directly linked to paratuberculosis bacteria, as well as Crohn’s disease. The pus comes from infected udders on the cows known as mastitis.
Blood Cells: the USDA allows up to 1.5 million white blood cells per milliliter of commonly-sold milk. Yes, you are drinking cow’s blood in the milk and the USDA allows this!
Antibiotics: Currently, cows are in such a state of disease and mistreatment that they are continually being injected with antibiotic medicines, and rubbed down with chemical-laden ointments to deal with their chronic infections. Currently, regulating committees only test for 4 of the 85 drugs in dairy cows. This means that the other 81 drugs in cow’s milk are coming directly into your glasses and bodies. Estimates show that 38% of milk in the U.S. is “contaminated with sulfa drugs or other antibiotics,” according to a study by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest and published in the Wall Street Journal on December 29, 1989. A study from the FDA data showed that over

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