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6* th^LACKAMA Print November 17, 2004 Comment O ff cows Milk still doe Cassia Mathieson The Clackamas Print J scream you scream we all scream for pus cream. That’s right kids, just because it’s white and creamy doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Sure, we all love the. rich and frosty goodness that comes to us every morn ing in our sugar flakes thanks to mom, dad, and those great guys at the Dairy« Association. But let me tell you, it’s not I without its consequences. Are you fat? Do you have pimples covering the majority of your adoles cent face? You probably consume a lot of milk then. Visit our buddies at PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment o» Animals); I’m sure they will agree wholeheartedly. While you are putting! around their website, (www.milk- sucks.com) you can also read about those neat little things called somatic cells. Sounds yummy huh? Actuary it’s just a nice professional way of saying “pocket o’ pus,” which is exactly what you gulp down every time you.enjoy your nice after-school snack of milk and cookies. But'hey, that’s okawwour friends in the dairy industry have got you all covered there. They havedevel oped a system by name of the “soinatic cell count,” (ever so clever) as a way to, you guessed it, count the number of . somatic cells in milk so that we never, consume enough to make us tqo sick.® According to said meter, once the milk reaches a pus pocket, eh, somatic cell count, of 200 million per liter, it shouldn’t be consumed by humans. Oddly enough, Hawaii is the only state that pays attention to this miniscule fact. Here in Oregon we drink in 286,000,000 somatic cells in every liter of milk consumed, bar none. Therefore, every single time you purchase milk at any one of our local markets, you are purchasing a substance that the FDA has mandated is hazardous to your , health, carrying 86.000,000 more somatic cells'than the dairy indusuy ' ■itself admitted was safe+o drink. / / But hey, let’s look on the bhghtside"g shall we? Somatic cells aren’t the only disgusting thing you have to look for ward to on a study diet of velvety yum miness. Milk has also been shown to be : an underlying cause of a myriad of other delectable diseases. Fun ones like :breast ¿¿heer^^^n-cancer, irritable- bowel syndwmc, «degression, and ('rohn's disease i itisi to name a few). . The one redeeming quality of this sordid elixir is that it is good for your bones, right? Wrong. Milk is an animal protein; animal proteins hold “sulphur?# containing amino acids,” (www.not- milk.conji which convert to sulfuric acids a®r they are digested. Sulfuric acids stimulate the loss of bone density, telling Is that milk does not aid in healthy bone management, but prevents it instead. So, keep on keepin’ on with your daily milk intake and you too can become an obesity-ridden, clinically Sptes&^pOSniafjkbd; and constipat ed ex-chemotherapy patient with two . broken hips and no breasts. At least you’ll always have the perfect accom paniment to your brownies. Frank Jordan The Clackamas Print I will start off by saying I love milk. help prevent osteoporosis. Besides, milk just tastes | Milk has done my body good for these last 38+ years. If I had to give up all of great with cookies and bi my other beverage choices (beer, CodgL. really, how else can you enj Red Mountain Dew™, the occasional «, bowl of cereal in the momii mocha, beer, water, beer, etc.) and only it with beer; it just isn’t the drink milk, then I would not ha\Q have arprob- a prob who doesn’t love chocolate lem with it. However, ■ my . e§teen «teemed col- : God forbid, you are allerg dial, late)? likes milk, she thinks Th There are many scientfe that it is bad for her. Au cohtraire, mon there I^Ug^st that consunJ ¿fieri! can go a long way toward ;j people iose lose weight, when whencJ We all know that milk is a'^eatspi^g.' pgapfe c] of calcium, but did you know that milk is * a ’ healthy .»«.ui,,, diet a :-«- and — a regular] loaded with other essential vitamin? and one study published ] ■minerals as well. These include protein, Research” magazine, obese] vitamins A, B-12 and D, potassium, consumed three to four dail phosphorous, niacin and riboflavin. milk, yogurt or cheese wh Vitamin D is especiallygitnportant anced, reduced calorie diet because,ft helps your bod^|hsorb the cantly more weight and fJ calcium that you get from your daily diet. people who consumed simil] ilk plays a strong'role in helping calcium through nutritional] your body with neB^ function, muscle or who consumed one or fa WMriacfi(^blood cletting and bone min- of milk, yogurt or cheese pe: eralizatio^weepii^^your bones strong). on the high dairy diet los Many studies suggest that fat-free or more body weight and 64 low-fat milk, as part of a low-fat diet, can body fat than those on the help reduce the risk of hypertension, the diet. leading cause ofiheart disease and stroke So, milk does much n in Americans. I doing the average body got Drinking milk now can help prevent the price of milk has risen osteoporosis when you get older. the past few years, there stil Osteoporosis ofens when vour bones ter deal out there for provii don’t enowhggealcium and your with as many nutrients as it body, needing calcium as you get older, a tall, heaping glass of milk will rob what it needs from what is left in my favorite artist, Weird, your bones. Bones then get brittle and “Milk in the place where I will break easier. Drinking at least four about nutrition, wonder d eight-ounce glasses of milk per day can now.” We’ve got four more years of blood instead of keti Jacob Ray The Clackamas Print How could this happen? The Red Sox won the World Series (yes!), and the Patriots are the NFL’s reining kings. I thought for sure that was a sign for Boston native John Kerry’s suc cess in the presidential election. Boston was invincible. Man, was I wrong; I guess George W. Bush renewed his deal with the devil for four more years. I’m betting that he used the blood of Americans (or oil) to sign that one. So now we’re stuck with this dummy for four more years and, I just like I me, I bet a ’ lot of you are wonder ing what the ■F next four years F are going to be like for our coun try. Well, I’m here to give you an idea on what to prepare for now that hell has frozen over. Photo Illustration by the fabulous Joel Gaynor Clackamas Print CLACKAMAip^ 19600 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 (503) 657-6958 ex. 2309 The C lackamas Print is a weekly student publication and is distributed every Wednesday except finals week. E ditor - in -C hief : Isaiah Creel C opy E ditor : James Tombe N ews E ditor : Ben Maras O pinion E ditor : Hilliary Ferguson F eature E ditor : Karlin Johnson A&E E ditor : Cory Price S ports E ditor : Nie Delzell P hoto E ditor : Joel Gaynor D esign E ditor : Michaele Cooper S taff W riters : Michele Bluemmel, Tony Cho, Ashley Cline, Cyrus Cross, Brandon Delzell, Michael McCormack, Yasmine Najmabadi, Joe Piazzisi, Amanda Polopolus, Jacob Ray, Jeff Sorensen, Jadon Triplett, Mary Wiley, Katie Wilson The first thing I know for sure is that Bush is going to take over at least a country or two. Why not? All he has to do is apply the “terrorist” label on someone or something and then it becomes more than necessary that he does whatever it takes to stop that “terrorism.” The coun tries will most likely be Iran, because they have oil, and North Korea, because if any body is going to have deadly nuclear weapons, it’s going to be America the bully. Because our military is already starting to get depleted, it only makes sense that Bush will need to install a draft; he’s going to need lots of troops to fight his diabolical “war on ter rorism.” Don’t like the idea of having to fight for your country with nothing to gain? Now you’re considering moving to Canada? I don’t think so. The Canada/U.S. investigations and enforcement will send you back before you can even get in the habit of saying “eh.” I wouldn’t be surprised if the price of gas keeps rising, which doesn’t make sense seeing as we’re in control of a big chunk of the oil business. I guess Bush just wants the consequences of this war to affect us any way it P roduction A ssistants : Jesse Arguello, Joanne Bergstrom, Stephen Bostwick, Alyssa Buster, Brie Daykin, Monica Gizowski, Norma Martinez, Angela McDaniel, Gregg Radspinner, Diane Tierney A d M anager : Ben Holm A dvisor : Linda Vogt possibly can. On sure that is goiq now that the seni dominated by ria servatives, Roe | going to be over™ turn, is going to] woman’s right to] ing quite a few nei with young moth] lot of potential foi life. Well, now I hog is ready for a rel roller-coaster ride] to be driven by a] The Heinz Ketel is having a conte] pie can send in entf of what I should go . on the AfvJj label inxmClj honor of ll Wj , John uJyl Kerry, the j I husband to j I the heir of Jl I the Heinz ( \ fortune. I Vn|] have one: I jJ “Somebody 1 al give this guy a pret- I fl zel.” Get 11 D epartment Assffl G oals : The C mcw « report the news in an hat professional manner. TW expressed do not necess® of the student body, colle^ tìon, its faculty or The W comments to chief«!««
