{"id":3030,"date":"2017-05-09T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theveganpunk.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2019-03-17T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T22:33:49","slug":"pro-dairy-health-studies-are-funded-by-the-dairy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veganmarketing.co.uk\/pro-dairy-health-studies-are-funded-by-the-dairy-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-dairy health studies are funded by the dairy industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the public wake up to the cruelty of the dairy industry and the myth that milk, cheese and yogurt are essential for good health, the dairy industry is really starting to panic.<\/p>\n
The defensive backlash began in February when the National Farmers Union reacted angrily<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0pro-vegan adverts that have been appearing across the country. The NFU slammed the ads as “misleading”, even though they carry\u00a0entirely factual messages like “dairy takes babies from their mothers”.<\/p>\n After claiming that dairy farmers work hard to ensure their\u00a0calves are “happy and healthy” – despite the fact that they are stolen from their grieving mothers soon after birth and often\u00a0sent straight to slaughter – NFU dairy board chairman Michael Oakes cites the Red Tractor kite mark as\u00a0evidence that farmers adhere\u00a0to high animal welfare standards.<\/p>\n A\u00a0quick glance at the Red Tractor website reveals the truth behind the ‘high animal welfare standards’ of the British animal farming industry. One of the methods recommended by Red Tractor<\/a> for ‘euthanising’ unwanted newborn lambs is to “Hold the animal by the back legs and swing it through an arc to hit the back of its head with considerable force against a solid object, e.g. a brick wall or metal stanchion.”<\/p>\n At the same time as the dairy industry is coming under unprecedented pressure,\u00a0at least two high profile pro-dairy health studies have been published and publicised widely in the media.<\/p>\n In April the National Osteoporosis Society warned that diets which cut out dairy could be\u00a0a “ticking time bomb” for young people’s bone health, a claim made\u00a0after the Society carried out a survey which found that a fifth of under-25s have either cut down on or completely given up dairy. The alarming warning was reported\u00a0by multiple news sites, for example by the BBC in an article<\/a> headlined ‘Dairy-free diets warning over risk to bone health’.<\/p>\n What the scaremongering pro-dairy media reports failed to mention is that the National Osteoporosis Society is funded by\u00a0a dairy company. The charity is partnered with dairy multinational Yoplait<\/a>\u00a0and, as stated\u00a0on the Asda website<\/a>, the company “donates annually to the National Osteoporosis Society in the UK and Irish Osteoporosis in Ireland”.<\/p>\n This month\u00a0the results of another study into dairy consumption and health have been published and widely publicised. The Guardian reports<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0‘Eating cheese does not raise risk of heart attack or stroke, study finds’, and details the findings of research carried out by “an international team of experts” which “challenges the widely held belief that dairy products can damage health”.<\/p>\n One of the study’s researchers, professor Ian Givens\u00a0from\u00a0Reading University, said: \u201cThere\u2019s quite a widespread but mistaken belief among the public that dairy products in general can be bad for you, but that\u2019s a misconception. While it is a widely held belief, our research shows that that\u2019s wrong.” Givens goes on to discuss the perils posed by not consuming dairy, particularly to young people – including an alarming warning that the children of pregnant women might develop neuro-developmental difficulties, which could “affect their cognitive abilities and stunt their growth”.<\/p>\n