Down with dairy.While yogurt yogurt: see fermented milk. yogurt Semisolid, fermented, often flavoured milk food. Yogurt is known and consumed in almost all parts of the world. has beneficial bacterial cultures ("It's Alive!," Eating Right, January/February 2007), yogurt is not a health food. The dairy lobby works hard to promote their products, leading our health-care providers to believe that dairy is necessary for humans. That is not true. We are (along with our domesticated do·mes·ti·cate tr.v. do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing, do·mes·ti·cates 1. To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic. 2. To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life. 3. a. pets) the only species that drinks the milk of another species. Cow and goat milk is designed for baby cows and baby goats. Compared to human breast milk, cow's milk is far too high in protein and fat. And any animal product that is manufactured for human consumption is harmful to our environment. The saying, "Earth's Best Friend is a Vegetarian vegetarian /veg·e·tar·i·an/ (vej?e-tar´e-an) 1. one who practices vegetarianism. 2. pertaining to vegetarianism. veg·e·tar·i·an n. One who practices vegetarianism. ," should be "Earth's Best Friend is a Vegan vegan /veg·an/ (ve´gan) (vej´an) a vegetarian whose diet excludes all food of animal origin. ve·gan n. ." The more animal products humans eliminate from their diets, the better it is for our environment. Diana Kleidon Via e-mail |
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