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just to play devil's advocate, how does one know that the soy grown to make the soy milk with is not treated with pesticides?!?!? if it's not labeled organic soy milk, can you really be sure that it's all that much safer than non-organic cow's milk.
an interesting note is that humans are the only organisms/animals/primates to drink milk past infancy... but that's not really the point of this topic.
i suppose that there maybe some truth to the cows filled with hormones... but then it assumes that these hormones make it into the milk produced in the cows... i don't know cow anatomy, but assuming it's similar in physiologic properties to humans, there is a blood-milk barrier, meaning that not everything that is in the blood ends up in the milk. said another way, there is a "filter" between the milk and the blood. that's not to say that it's impossible for growth hormones or antibiotics to end up in the milk.
the article cited above uses the word pus, rather than the term white blood cells (which is all that pus is)... i'm not sure if this is to scare the reader, or the writer's lack of knowledge, or just trying to use a word that the reader doesn't understand. what confuses me about the point is that if there is an increase in the amount of antibiotics used in these cows (which would fight off infection, thus decreasing the amount of white blood cells needed), why is there an increase in the amount of white blood cells? unless of course, that it's simply not true.
with all of that said, i don't think organic milk is bad at all. is non-organic milk bad for you... probably not. is soy milk the safe alternative? it's safe, but whether or not it's organic is another question.
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