Milk and Oxytocin

You are drinking this dangerous drug every day. Your milkman uses the same oxytocin injection TWICE A DAY by injecting it into the cow/buffalo in the mistaken notion that it produces extra milk. What it actually does is makes the milk flow faster by causing the cow's uterus to start contracting. It is used to force the cow to give milk after being beaten, starved and put under stress.Do you know how terrible labour pains are? Think of millions of cows having the same uterine contractions twice a day. It damages her reproductive abilities causing premature sterility. This injection is the reason why the cow becomes incapable of bearing calves within a few years and is sent to the slaughterhouse -- ten years before her natural life-span is over. A cow withstands any viciousness on her: but when she sees the long needle of the oxytocin injection EVERY cow bucks like a horse anticipating the pain to come.Oxytocin not only affects the cow, it filters into the milk. It has been held responsible for uterine cancers, male impotence, and excessive hair on women and balding for men, early or erratic periods, and early development of breasts (for both sexes). It is considered particularly harmful for the eyes, especially in children. The hormone affects the reproductive ability of women. Its most common symptoms are exhaustion and loss of energy. Pregnant women who drink milk have an increased risk of haemorrhaging.Beef all over India has been found to be extremely toxic with large amounts of this drug. 

Dangerous Milk? Steroid Injections for Cows Could Endanger Human Lives

The milk from cows injected with steroids may cause low immunity level in humans, leading to several diseases. Such animals are given steroids so that they can produce more milk. Also, steroid injections are known to speed up the process of fowl or calf birth in animals.

Several cattle pen owners use this unnatural method to increase their profits. Sadly, this also leads to low infertility among cows and buffaloes. Generally, the owners of cattle pens inject 2cc of steroids in buffaloes twice a day. This injection is available in markets for Rs10-12. It increases the body temperature of buffaloes, as a result of which the milk discharge is quicker. However, the animals stop giving milk when the effect of the injection wears off. 

Moreover, this is practiced on those cows whose newly-born calves are separated from them so that the milk production is high. The calves are sold in Kutta Market situated in Buffalo Colony (Bhains Colony), which are then slaughtered and sold to restaurants. Their skin is sold at high prices. 

The Secretary General of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Karachi, Dr Qaisar Sajjad, says that these injections affect humans also when they drink this milk. For one thing, the immunity level decreases when the steroid-treated milk is consumed consistently. Ailments such as flu, hair loss, obesity, high cholesterol level and sometimes kidney failure are the most common result of this. 

Furthermore, Sajjad said that “there may be problems in deliveries as well and that this practice is slow poisoning for consumers". He added that such milk may also cause early maturity in children. 

The veterinary surgeon, Dr Isma Gheewala, presents a different side to this issue. According to her, cows are unable to produce naturally because when their calves aren’t present, their bodies are unable to produce the hormone which stimulates the milk-producing glands. Therefore, injections of the hormone oxytocin are used to stimulate their pituitary glands. 

She said that, generally the effects of the injection last for only two hours. The procedure is not used unnecessarily because it is not how one can get more milk. She maintains that the injections have no side effects on animals.

Cows' milk protects against HIV

Melbourne: Cows` milk can be potentially developed into affordable creams that can help protect humans against HIV, a study has claimed.

Lead scientist from University of Melbourne Marit Kramski found that when pregnant cows were vaccinated with an HIV protein, the first milk produced by the cow after giving birth, called colostrum, produced high antibodies to protect its newborn against disease.


Researchers were now planning to test the effectiveness and safety of the milk before turning it into a cream which will hopefully allow women to protect themselves against contracting the virus during sex, without relying on men, the Herald Sun reported.

However, the final result could be a decade off.

The researchers were able to inhibit the virus from infecting cells when combing the virus cells with milk.

"We think the antibodies bind to the surface of the virus and block the protein which needs to be freed to get in contact with human cells - like a key and lock system. If the key`s not accessible or you change the key, you can`t open the door," Kramski said adding

"It`s a very cheap and easy way to produce a lot of antibodies."

Kramski had partnered with Australian biotechnology company Immuron Ltd to develop the milk, and would continue working with them to produce a preventative cream.

"We have the antibodies at the moment - the next step will be formulation," Kramski said.

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Goodness of Cow Milk

Milk is almost an ideal food. It has high nutritive value. It supplies body-building proteins, bone-forming minerals and health-giving vitamins and furnishes energy-giving lactose and milk fat. Besides supplying certain essential fatty acids, it contains the above nutrients in an easily digestible and assimilable form. All these properties make milk an important food for pregnant mothers, growing children, adolescents, adults, invalids, convalescents and patients alike.

 Milk is a powerful nutrition package containing nine essential nutrients including calcium, protein and potassium. Milk is the perfect beverage for today's kids and teens. 

• Calcium: Milk and dairy products are an important source of calcium. Apart from bone health, Calcium also plays vital role in blood clotting, nerve conduction, muscle contraction, regulation of enzyme activity, cell membrane function and blood pressure regulation. 

• Protein: Milk is a good source of low-cost high quality protein, which is readily digested. This protein is important for a number of bodily functions — vital to brain development and the growth of body tissues. 

• Vitamin A: Maintains normal vision and skin. Helps regulate cell growth and integrity of the immune system. 

• Vitamin B-12: Essential for the growth and health of the nervous system. Linked to normal activity of folic acid and is involved in blood formation. 

• Vitamin D: Promotes the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, and influences bone mineralization, the strengthening of bones. 

• Potassium: Regulates the body's fluid balance and blood pressure. It is also needed for muscle activity and contractions. 

• Phosphorus: Helps generate energy in the body's cells and influences bone mineralization, the strengthening of bones. 

• Niacin: Keeps enzymes functioning normally and helps the body process sugars and fatty acids. It is also important for the development of the nervous system. 

• Riboflavin: Helps produce energy in the body's cells and plays a vital role in the development of the nervous system.