Currently, Newport-Mesa Unified School District (NMUSD) gets it's milk supply from a local California dairy. These are the same "Happy Cows" from the California Milk Advisory Board's deceptive advertising campaign. The slogan "So much grass, so little time" presents California dairies as lush, grassy pastures. Don't believe it!California cows live in dirt and mud feedlots where they are repeatedly impregnated and shot full of hormones in order to produce unnaturally high amounts of milk, according to John Robbins the only son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire. Robbins has dedicated his life to "working for a more compassionate and environmentally responsible world," and that includes exposing the inhumane treatment of California dairy cows. Robbins' website is full of disturbing facts about dairy.
PETA has also taken notice of the false advertising and has launched a "You Decide" Unhappy Cows campaign to support their lawsuit against the California Milk Advisory Board. In the video, you can witness first hand the life of misery and difficulty California cows experience in their confined and crowded spaces.
Watch and You Decide
Visit these sites for more information www.peta.org, www.unhappycows.com and www.foodrevolution.org.
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Gandhi said, "You can measure a civilization by how they treat their animals."
The way America treats it's animals is definitely inhumane. To pretend that it's not that way through false advertising is grossly deceitful and unfortunate. It doesn't give people a choice to reject these current ranching methods. It's up to us to educate people and I wonder when the ranchers themselves will feel bad about what they're doing and try something else to make money.
What's ironic is that the way we are treating our animals is killing us. All of the poisons put into the meat go right into our bodies. In Diet for a New America by John Robbins you'll find the fact that meat contains 14 times more herbicides and pesticides than commercially grown vegetables. That's because the genetically modified corn and soy that is fed to cows along with the cement dust, chicken manure, old magazines and newspapers, dead road kill and unhealthy animal protein from rendering plants and other toxins are given to them have no regulations on how much they can be sprayed.
Growing our cows and other animals is not just good for our conscience, but it's good for our health and how we feel physically.
And, it's good for our pocketbooks when we consider we spend more money on health care than anyone in the world yet still rank dead last in health. Food quality is our #2 health challenge, right after bad education which we get from the National Dairy Council.
Organic milk in our schools is a fantastic idea and a great way to make change because businesses sell what people buy. If we as a nation choose healthy milk for our cows, more ranchers will produce it. It's really up to us to make healthier choices rather than to blame the ranchers for doing their best to make money and provide food for us. God bless 'em!
What can you do?
Maybe choose one less meat or dairy item per day. Maybe choose to eat organic meats and diary.
But why not write a letter to the Corona Del Mar school system and ask for organic milk for your kids, or other kids?
I leave it to you.
To your amazing health!
Arnoux Goran
Founder, Total Health Mastery
www.THMastery.com
Arnoux - you are right! We need to change the equation. It's supply and demand, I am demanding clean food supplies for our schools. Keep spreading the word. The mission of this blog is to reach the ears at the Newport-Mesa Unified School District this year!
Thanks for your support, Kristine
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