You are exactly right, dairy is rape and for all the reasons you mentioned. However, I have not heard about the ground up baby cow stomach in cheese.
To my knowledge, there was an enzyme that used to be harvested from baby cow stomach's called rennent that was used to coagulate the milk proteins into cheese. This process usually involved killing of the calf, so baby cow stomachs became a by-product of the veal industry. These days they use GMO bacteria to produce the rennent.
Rennent is only produced in baby cows and they stop producing it when they are developed enough to digest grass and other plant based material.
So to your point, all animals stop drinking milk after a certain age. Also don't forget Cow milk is also infested with bacteria, puss and blood because the utters are are sore and infected from constant use which is a big reason why it is homogenized.
Very good article. thanks for sharing!
Good points. I think a lot of mainstream cheese is now being made without actually having to use any of the stomach directly, but I'm sure many artisan and homestead type cheeses are made that way. Even if it's "just" rennet made in a lab, it has to tell the person eating something that an enzyme had to be added so their guts wouldn't reject it. Ummm, it makes me cringe when I see the "Cheese is Natural!" billboards and dairy truck ads.
(Another ad that makes me cringe is the one showing a scruffy dude chowing down on half a chicken, and a scoop of mashed potatoes, and the caption is YOU COULD SAVE A LIFE, PLEASE GIVE. No donation for them!)
lol, you must see a lot of crazy billboards. It is pretty gross all the crap that goes into processed foods and GMO bacteria is not an improvement haha. They must think the ad will resonate with people due to all the government conditioning that we are all useless eaters.
Making memories out of someone else's mammaries? No thanks! :)
Yeah, I seriously don't even know what to say. It is disgusting that they always put a picture of a cow on there and it looks happy or smiling like the cow willingly gave that milk to you as a gift. People should watch the documentary Food Inc, or better yet Earthlings. If that doesn't horrify you, I don't know what will.