Organic milk off the menu at Starbucks
You may not have realized that you could ask for organic milk in your grande decaf nonfat vanilla latte, but it looks like you won’t have the option at Starbucks much longer. This week, the cafe giant announced that it will take organic milk off the menu. Why? Because Starbucks’ milk supply will no longer contain rBGH (the controversial bovine growth hormone), they feel organic is no longer necessary. No rBGH is certainly good news, but what about pesticide contamination? A lack of essential fatty acids? Not to mention animal treatment?
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January 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I will be impressed with Starbucks when they offer organic RAW milk at their stores.
Organic milk is better than regular, but raw milk offers the best nutrition.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I do believe in organics, however I am still amazed at all the misinformation. First of all, there is nothing in milk that the human body needs. In fact there is nothing in any animal product that the human body needs. A great example is that countries with the highest milk, and, calcium intake, have the highest rates of osteoporosis. As far as omega 3 fatty acids, animals don’t make them. They do concentrate them, but you can get them from the original plant sources without difficulty. As a physician and endurance athlete, I have no problems with a completely plant based diet. I have taught a number of lifestyle medicine classes. Of these 33% of my diabetics are off all medications, 100% on no insulin, and on minimal medications. The meat and dairy industry have done a great marketing job, but in reality, we can certainly rid the world of most of our killer western diseases, and impact world hunger by diverting our energy to feeding people and not animal food sources.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
A friend of mine just recommended the book The China Study, co-authored by T. Colin Campbell, PhD. It comes to similar conclusions about dairy in the diet. Has anyone else read this book? I’m curious what the medical community thinks of it.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:05 am
First of all, I’m very disappointed to hear this. I try to avoid pasteurized milk to begin with, as I am a raw milk drinker, but if you can’t have raw, then organic is the next best thing. I never used to have a problem with pasteurized (no lactose intolerance or anything), but since I have switched to raw, I can no longer drink the old stuff without getting sick. It’s like my body knows that I am getting lactase aplenty in the raw milk to digest it all for me.
I also disagree with the idea posted above that dairy and meat are responsible for our ills - I think that needs to be clarified in that CONVENTIONAL dairy and meat industries are responsible. Small family farms operated nicely for hundreds and thousands of years, but until huge factory farms started running the show do we see health problems. Animals are raised or slaughtered improperly, the animals are constantly sick because they can’t live freely in their natural environment, thus the need for antibiotics and growth hormone - they can’t produce well enough, so they get “beefed up” (pun intended). If everyone bought from small family farms we’d see a big difference in our health, and economy.
I love raw milk and it’s so good for you - pasteurized and homogenized milk kills all lactase (which is why people are “allergic” or “lactose intolerant” - any kind of breast milk, including cow, is a perfect food containing everything you need in it plus everything to digest it for you!), kills almost all B complex vitamins, half of vitamin C and about 2/3 of vitamins A, D, E, F, kills almost all enzymes, kills some proteins so that the whole complex is altered, kills lipase, kills half or more of the natural calcium - so what do we do with it? Add in synthetic vitamins that are toxic to our bodies in large amounts, rather than consume the naturally-occurring ones that are not toxic in large amounts.
I urge readers to read “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston Price, DDS. He did case studies of many remote peoples who still ate traditional foods and found no evidence of any strictly vegetarian peoples in the world that completely avoided animal products. Any “vegetarians” he found had their own reasons (religious, etc.) for avoiding meat, but still new the importance of consuming large amounts of dairy products in their raw or fermented states, eggs, raw honey, etc.
Raw milk is a living food full of nutrients and good things for your body. Here’s my wish for one day seeing raw milk available on the Starbucks menu!