The Cows · Page 21
They feed us food that is too rich so that we produce more milk than ever, but the milk is no longer wholesome as it was when it was made of flowers and meadow grasses.
The milk is taken by machines and put through meters of pipework. Often it is dried to a powder and shipped halfway around the world.
The milk is heated to kill the bacteria, and the heat destroys all the goodness that is left so that the children of men grow ill from it, too.
Pasteurized milk has become the norm because heating kills the bacteria and allows for industrial processes and distribution networks on a vast scale that does not spread disease – at least not some kinds of disease.
Heating the milk means that the good bacteria are also killed and that the molecules in the milk are transformed, making them harmful to human health.
Experiments done as early as the 1950s clearly show that raw milk promotes health and heated milk leads to bone disease.