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November 17, 2004
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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
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likes milk, she thinks
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people iose
lose weight, when
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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]
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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.
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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
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