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- High levels of cholesterol may raise heart disease risk, the #1 cause of death in the US.
- Saturated fat impairs the body’s ability to control blood sugar.
- Antibiotics, pesticides, lead, dioxins, PCBs, and other industrial toxins accumulate in milk.
- The protein in milk promotes cancer growth.
- Tumor growth can be turned on and off like a lightswitch with higher or lower amounts of casein protein from milk.
- 3 servings of dairy per day increases the risk of death from prostate cancer by 141%.
- Producing 1 gallon of milk takes 144 gallons of fresh water.
- Livestock accounts for 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
- Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of Amazon destruction.
- A single spoonful of milk contains 1,120,000 pus cells.
- 1 cow produces as much waste as 165 people.
- The natural hormones in milk promote acne.
- Statistics show that bone fracture rates are highest in populations with the greatest milk consumption.
- 3 glasses of milk per day increases women’s risk for hip fractures by 60%.
- Human breast milk contains less than a third the protein of cow’s milk, lower than any animal milk.
- Protein from beans, vegetables, and whole grains builds muscle just as well as animal protein.
- A healthy plant-based diet could save more than 14 million lives each year.
Check your sources! Follow http://blogs.lt.vt.edu/water/2015/02/07/how-much-water-does-it-take-to-make-a-gallon-of-milk/ to find the clarification:
Hi Debrah, thank you for your questions! There should be typo here, one of the published paper showed that 4 gallons of water is required for 1 gallon of milk, generally speaking. This 4 gallons of water including feeding, heating, cooling, cleaning up, and so on.
Hi Ashley. Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like that article has been updated since I posted this.
The amount of water required to produce a gallon of milk varies greatly from source to source, based on what elements are considered in the report. Spanning from something like 4 gallons as you said here, to 1,000 gallons: https://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Hoekstra-2008-WaterfootprintFood.pdf
When making this infographic I chose something in the middle of the road, so to be as neutral as possible.