By Robert Cohen -
i4crob@earthlink.net
This column is dedicated to a special dairy farmer, a
woman who sees truth in almost every aspect of life, save one.
I've been to this dairywoman's farm. I've had dinner
with her family. I know that she purchases milk in cartons from stores
for her own personal consumption.
Talk about bringing coal to Newcastle, or having all the
tea in China and drinking the massed produced broken orange blossom
supermarket brand. Her personal choice becomes fodder for a future
psychological commentary. Why will she not drink the body fluids from
her own animals like most dairymen do? Although I am aware of how very
much she loves her cows, she has successfully closed her mind to the
pain and suffering that ends the lives of each gentle creature who
resides on her farm.
There will come a point in today's column when she will
be unable to read any more. I love this woman because she cares about so
many things, and possesses the vision to see. She is indeed a rarity
among men (and women).
On one hand, she calls to many of her animals by name.
One the other hand, she considers each of her creatures agricultural
units, rather than sentient beings who each have the ability to
experience pain, feel emotions and form attachments to their offspring,
and experience the terror of death by being taken from the only life
they knew, being stuffed into trucks, going to death camps
(slaughterhouses) and receiving stunning blows to their heads and knives
to their throats.
She injects many of her cows with the genetically
engineered bovine growth hormone, despite knowing the pain these animals
must endure as a result of rbGH-treatment.
She will read today's column, and realize that I am
right, and continue to close her mind to the truth which will one day
haunt her.
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WARNING TO ALL: You do not want to read this column if
your superego cannot handle animal abuse.
Imagine your internal organs exploding from within. If
you continue to enjoy dairy products, the picture I am about to paint
for you will be hazardous to your psyche.
During the approval process for rbGH, Monsanto's
genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (now in America's cheese,
ice cream, and milk), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined
that growth hormone treatment was perfectly safe and painless for dairy
cows.
Both Monsanto and FDA claimed that rbGH injections were
safe for dairy cows. Stolen internal confidential documents (published
by the dairy industry newsletter MILKWEED) prove otherwise.
Imagine an 1800 pound cow losing more than six percent
of her body weight (over 100 pounds) during one year of milking.
During that weight loss, what would you guess would be
the effect on her body organs? Would the organs also shrink or remain
the same size?
Imagine that same new miracle diet for women, approved
by FDA. All you have to do is receive an injection of growth hormones
every two weeks as dairy cows do. You weigh 150 pounds at the beginning
of your diet, and after one year weigh just 141 pounds. What do imagine
would happen to your liver and heart? How about your adrenal gland or
thyroid?
How about a woman's ovaries? Would they remain the same
size or shrink proportionally to her overall body mass?
SHOCKING RESULTS
While stressed dairy cows lost weight, their body organs
grew enormously!
Adrenal glands squirt adrenaline into a mammal's system
during stressful events. This powerful chemical is responsible for the
"fight or flight" response.
Cows treated with low doses of rbGH lost an average of
90 pounds, but their adrenal glands grew by a factor of 21% over the
control group (cows not treated with rbGH). The medium dose group
experienced increases of 46%, while the high dosed group had adrenal
growth of 51%.
The thyroid gland is responsible for regulating
metabolism. The low dose group experienced 7% growth increases. The
medium dose group experienced a 17% increase, while the high dose group
experienced a 61% increase over controls.
Liver and heart weights increased by double-digit
factors in the medium and high dose groups. Ovary weights increased in
excess of twenty percent in all three groups.
If FDA learned of these adverse effects in a human
medicine, they would immediately remove that hazardous poison from the
market place.
This is dangerous, folks. To cows and humans. We drink
their body fluids. We drink their hormones. Their adverse effects become
ours.
No biological effects? Here are the actual data:
CONTROL LOW MEDIUM HIGH
GROUP DOSE DOSE DOSE
TOTAL WEIGHT 1591 lbs 1501 1509 1487
THYROID 1.24 ozs 1.33 1.45 2.00
LIVER 23.9 lbs 23.9 27.0 26.8
HEART 7.5 lbs 7.5 9.0 9.0
ADRENAL 1.15 ozs 1.39 1.68 1.73
KIDNEY 3.7 lbs 4.1 5.1 5.3
OVARY 0.82 ozs 0.99 1.07 1.10
I cannot forgive the scientists who saw the truth and
urged approval of a treatment that allows the animals to live in pain
for the sake of their company profits.
I cannot forgive the government regulators who benefit
by the revolving door policy created by pharmaceutical companies who
hire regulators with high paying jobs that continues a rotten system.
These regulators had to have seen the scientific evidence. What turned
them deaf, dumb, and blind to the truth?
I cannot forgive the dairy farmers who pretend to care
for their animals, while administering dose after dose of internal pain.
When man learns an evil truth, however painful that
truth may be, he loses his innocence and is no longer naive. There is
just one single moment of truth when that educated man steps over his
threshold, separating all that is good from all that is evil. Once over
the line separating the ethical from the non-ethical, there is no
recapturing one's dignity.
The innocent animals continue to explode from within
from man's biotechnically induced torture treatments.
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
Follow-up column:
This morning, I dedicated my NOTMILK column to a
dairywoman:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/744
I wrote:
"On one hand, she calls to many of her animals by name.
One the other hand, she considers each of her creatures agricultural
units, rather than sentient beings who each have the ability to
experience pain…"
"If you continue to enjoy dairy products, the picture I
am about to paint for you will be hazardous to your psyche."
"Imagine an 1800 pound cow losing more than six percent
of her body weight (over 100 pounds) during one year of
milking...stressed dairy cows lost weight, their body organs grew
enormously... The high dosed group had adrenal growth of 51% while the
high dose (thyroid gland) group experienced a 61% increase over
controls…Liver and heart weights increased by double-digit factors in
the medium and high dose groups...Ovary weights increased in excess of
twenty percent…"
"I cannot forgive the dairy farmers who pretend to care
for their animals, while administering dose after dose of internal
pain."
THE DAIRYWOMAN'S RESPONSE:
"I do not see pain where you see pain. If you choose to
judge me, that's your prerogative."
"Serenity died one year ago, of old age and natural
causes. She was 14 years old. She was a cow. My cow. I'm still in pain."
"You paint very unrealistic pictures. I can laugh at
your paintings because they are comic strips."
MY FINAL COMMENT:
She does not see pain where I see pain, but she is still
in pain for one cow, while ignoring the pain of thousands.
I respect her request not to name her, or list her EMAIL
address.
Should you wish to send her a message, please do so by
visiting the NOTMILK guestbook.
To read or sign my guestbook:
http://www.notmilk.com/gbookmen.html
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