Pros And Cons Of Dairy Propaganda

For centuries, Americans have considered dairy a necessary part of their diet, but scientists have recently discovered that it quite the opposite of healthy. Multiple ailments and diseases are associated with milk, and the growing dairy industry still refuses to stop their false propaganda.

Americans believe dairy is good for them because of the tremendous amount of publicity set in place for them. Most citizens think they know dairy is good for them just as they know a vegetable is good for them. The problem is, they don’t stop to wonder about how they might know this. Americans are attacked with misleading dairy propaganda as vulnerable children in public schools. The dairy industry “[supplies] teaching aids and nutritional information to schools, [beginning] its pro-dairy propaganda while children are too young to question what they’re learning”(Atwood). Students in schools accept what they learn to be true simply because they are taught to them. They are too young to ask themselves whether it is true, so they decide to believe it. Americans also believe they need dairy for “balanced nutrition and to avoid diseases

Most just assume that since they have been fine drinking milk in the past, they don’t have to look for substitutes. Biochemist, Colin Campbell said, “Plant-based foods have plenty of protein and calcium along with far greater amounts of countless other essential nutrients (such as antioxidants and complex carbohydrates) than meat and dairy.” If Americans would all switch to natural foods such as vegetables, spinach, beans, or soy milk, the county would better receive calcium. As for potassium, tomatoes, spinach, sweet potatoes, oranges, bananas, and other fruits and vegetables are full of it. “As for vitamin D, the body produces enough vitamin D just by being in the sunlight for 20 minutes, three times a