Milk is claimed to be healthy, hearty and good for your bones. However, that should not mean humans should be drinking it. This plain white liquid may not be what you think it is.

When thought about, it makes no sense as to why humans would start drinking milk in the first place. Right now, it seems normal to you because it was normalized, but by the end of this hopefully you will have changed your mind.

Milk was made for infants. Women produce it only for a certain amount of time after giving birth for their BABY to have. And you probably didn’t know cows do the same thing. A cow has to be pregnant to produce milk… for their calf, not you. However, farmers milk these cows anyways, this is what we know as organic milk. What’s the difference between organic and non organic milk though? As we know, humans are ambitious and terribly selfish. Farmers put hormone injections into cows so that they not only lactate when pregnant, but constantly. This is non-organic(GMO) milk, and it can be pretty gross.

Since these cows are lactating all the time, it can get kind of unsanitary. Cows can get an udder infection called mastitis, and it is very common. With this infection, pus leaks into the milk and with all of the milk being put in the same big container, pretty much all milk has pus in it. Milk can have up to 20,000 pus cells before it’s considered unhealthy to drink. That is disgusting.

If these facts aren’t enough to make you stop drinking milk, then how about this one:  lactose tolerance is a mutation, but what does that mean? Either you or someone you know probably has lactose intolerance, that’s basically when your body can’t break down lactaid. Lactose tolerance is a point mutation that substitutes the cytosine nucleotide for thymine, making humans able to drink milk past infancy.

Hopefully this is enough evidence to make people see how weird something that seems normal actually is. And if you still drink milk after all of this knowledge, that’s impressive. Have fun with your udder pus!