[AbiDrew85]

This does my head in!
I'm late 30's.
We grew up with milk delivered fresh by the milkman, in glass bottles left on the roadside until we brought it in.
Homogenised or not? Who knows. Worried about spoilage - no.
My grandmother lived on cups of teas and full cream and cheese scones, lard for cooking the list goes on.
Her sisters, cousins, parents, anties all drunk milk , are/were they suffering from lactose intolerance and dying of cancers = nope!
So what the hell is it?
Processing of dairy these days, what the cattle are fed and subsequently transferred into our dairy products that all of a sudden half of us are lactose bloody intolerant or going to die of bloody BC cause we drink milk!

I'm not angry at any of you guys btw, I read you comments with great interest but it frustrates the HELL out of me, eat youghurt/don't eat yoghurt/ organic so safe/ no organics not safe!

All I fricken know is our ancestors were a HELL of a lot healthier than we are now. They ate dairy, drunk milk, ate full fat. FrustrTed. Sorry *goesofftohaveasulk*

A lot of today's problems are due to pollution to our water supplies, oceans, and land. Others are due to the way stuff is grown/raised in a factory way with tons of synthetic products pumped in. Still others are due to the leaching of nutrients from the soil and the over-abundance of them in lakes, rivers, and delta's which has been caused by a number of inputs including all the above plus climate change. Still more are due simply to the balance of foods we eat today compared to what our ancestors ate. Too many things have changed for us to really ever get back to when times were simpler. But there are steps we can take to help alleviate some of the problems for ourselves, and, doing so, also put our money into areas of the economy that would make it clear we do not condone the bullshit that's been being done to the global ecosystem. Our food choices alone probably won't send a strong enough message though, so such a lifestyle change has to be more all-encompassing than just what you eat if you really want things to start to change.