Say no to BEEF. 10 things the beef industry does not want you to know 1. We don’t need beef. The industry wants you to believe it is essential but it is not. Their motive for such propaganda is of course money. 2. Milk from cow is unnatural and does more harm than good. The industry wants us to believe that “milk does a body good.” Scientific research has shown that consumption of cow milk in toddlers contributes to osteoporosis later in life.1,2 It is also a GI irritant causing constipation in children,38 and diarhea for people with lactose intolerance.24,25 3. There is no humane way of killing a gentle social animal like cows. Hence “beef” is a euphemism; a sugar coating over the fact that all beef are cow carcasses. So it is an ethical issue; would you kill your own cow and eat its meat? 4. Beef consumption as part of the mainstream western diet has contributed to the rise of cardiovascular problems. It is a fact that beef fat and cholesterol cause atherosclerosis and build up of plaques in the blood vessels.12 One cannot avoid eating beef without the fat. 5. Causes prostate, breast and ovarian cancers.15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23. Synthetic hormones in beef causes mastitis which may lead to breast cancer.27,28 And colon cancer for many people who are beef lovers are addicted to this diet and do not consume enough soluble or insoluble fibers; the so-called high roughage diet to clean out the intestines. 6. Beef consumption causes world hunger. The feed produced to feed cows for consumption could be used to feed people. Its basic math. 7. Beef farming destroys the environment. Rainforests are cleared for cattle ranching. Methane gas produced from cow are released into the atmosphere contributing to greenhouse gasses (which includes carbon dioxide) 8. Prions. People get madcow disease from eating cow—infected cow. 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