Milk: The White Lie We've All Been Sold

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If milk is a lie then why did my dad go to get it?

The idea that fully grown adult humans need to be breast fed by cows was always weird to me.

Here is a quote that I will recite here for entertainment purposes. "Make no mistake, pasteurization was never about healthier milk. It was all about flipping the business from the Milkman to the grocery store, making the sale of raw milk illegal solidified the deal... & you can take that to the bank...

THIS explains why the majority of "Leave It to Beaver" episodes from the 1950s include Wally and the Beaver drinking milk AND sometimes even talking about it. Ice cream, too. There's even an episode where mom, June Cleaver, swigs down a big glass... which has always struck me as peculiar. Finally, an explanation for one of my favorite old shows! Thank you ❤🎉

People easily accept that the government lied in the past but don't think it does it now. I always ask "when did the officials stop lying?"

When I was homeless and strung out on drugs I think milk was the only thing that kept me alive. Lol. Whole milk. Red cap. I drank it and not much else and survived.. so therefore I am greatful to milk. I don't drink it much anymore, but I'll never forget what it has done for me. ❤️

Just a thought... getting a child to drink a glass of milk to get 300mg of calcium is way easier than trying to get them to eat a 100g of almonds. I can get calcium from cabbage if I wanted to, but I'd have to eat a shitload of it to get even nearly the same amount (oxylates in cabbage bond with calcium, thus reducing the amount available for absorbtion) So yes, you can get calcium from other sources but do remember that it's the ease of ingestion as well as nutrient density that also play a major factor.

I think context is crucial. Mr Harris makes some great points here but it’s worth thinking about what you’re drinking instead. Realistically its the 2nd healthiest drink after water - fruit juice and smoothies are sooo full of sugar (eating fruit let’s you take the sugar in slowly and chewing sets of a whole load of processes that prepare your body for what’s coming), refined sugar is bad and any sweetener (even ‘natural’ sweeteners) are ultra-processed, and our bodies aren’t at all adapted to deal with something that tastes like sugar (which upon tasting may for example cause the body to raise insulin levels) but actually isn’t. Best drink water, 2nd best milk, then comes everything else

Omg, this finally explains it. When I was growing up as a kid I was always wondering “why in Hollywood movies and shows Americans drink milk all the time?”. In shops you can buy a GALLON of milk and that’s SHITLOAS of milk. Our packaging in Eastern Europe goes up to 2L which is almost half a gallon.

We literally studied the "Got Milk" marking campaign in one of my Uni marketing classes in the past week and I was like I wish there was someone who's videos I like watching makes something related to milk and then bingo this man comes in clutch!!

Had the opportunity to try raw milk. I regularly drink gallons of milk A week, but have begun to slow way down. The processed milk is so much like water. But the raw milk was sweet and rich, and filling. I could only drink a fraction of the raw milk before I was full.

Milk is one of the highest-quality protein sources available, according to the DIAAS scale, which rates protein sources according to nutritional quality. I drink gallons weekly, along with a resistance training regimen, cardio and yoga. I feel very good. I love milk!

In my childhood I had gas so bad I thought I would explode. I was in tears and my mom consulted with experts and doctors and they said I was swallowing air when I was eating and they taught me how to blow air out when taking a spoon full of food. It turns out, it was just milk. I ate cereal and milk daily, massive amounts.

The worst thing about modern "American" (I'm Australian and we have much the same problem) milk was watching you pour the milk from the carton and seeing how thin watery and see through it is. proper milk isn't like that, but what they put in the bottle has already had most of the good stuff stripped out for cream butter and cheese production. Just like Kraft cheese is a pale imitation of proper real cheese.

Brother, you have mastered this video essay thing. Your vids are very dense with knowledge and the way you present tells a linear story that keeps us interested and invested. Great work🎉❤

🤯 mind blown. My husband called our firstborn daughter “government cheese“ because he thought she was kind of lazy because she really enjoyed letting other people do things for her. I mean, just from infancy to like 2. 😆 but knowing origins is crazy. Fing govt

I grew up in Finland in early 2000's and the biggest dairy producer of the country was advertising drinking milk with posters in school cafeterias. And in primary school if you didn't drink milk during school lunch, teachers would look you badly and ask why.

One of the unfortunate truths about being a biologist that I had to learn in my undergraduate studies was where the money comes from to actually fund any proposed research. So very much of it is from groups with lots of money and an agenda and when you pitch your research idea, you have to basically sell your research potential as a product: either as a way to make of save money. The other options are government funding which is a nightmare of red tape and can completely be just as biased or charities/special interest groups like WWF (panda not smackdown) who might have much more altruistic intensions but are equally as biased. So you have to juggle skewing your pitch to be as attractive as possible and then immediately turn around and be as unbiased and analytical as possible so you can practice good science (as you always should) and not get flagged during peer review. All this while under the realization that it's a "publish or perish" job market and if you keep getting "boring" results your career will go nowhere. I'm not saying that biologists who run the studies like the "bigger rats on milk" one in the video are unscrupulous just that there is this massive "sword of Damocles" hanging over all of our heads to produce results that will let us keep doing research. This isn't to say that we are all soulless, greedy puppets who produce false narratives for our benefactors; quite the opposite. Most of the biologists I know and have worked with are people with only the best intensions who pursue knowledge for it's own sake with an almost childlike desire to simply better understand the nature of living things and how they function for the betterment of everything and everyone but are forced to navigate the maze of biased capitalism and politics. An example I like to use is from a presentation I saw from a post-grad while I was doing my undergrad. It was basically "what happens to spiders in winter" it was basic and should be easy to find out, but the honest answer is that we have no evidence based idea what happens to them. I asked afterwards why we don't know and the simple answer was because there is profit in knowing: they aren't pests, we can't make new products or medicine from knowing, and they aren't big cuddly adorable mammals with a million people ready to protest for them. Simply put- we want to know but no one will give us the money.

I found out that I have been allergic to cow's milk all my life. My doctor told me that is the reason most people get allergies later in life. Being introduced to cow's milk in the diet as a baby when the immune system isn't mature enough to handle it.