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Got Milk Industry’s Health Claims Have Been Proven Wrong
Marketers have been trying desperately for over a decade to increase the public’s consumption of milk, but they keep failing. Here’s why. Selling milk looks easy and even fun when you see the celebrity milk-mustache ads. “Got Milk?” ads may be the most recognizable and spoofed of all ad campaigns, yet they are probably also one of the least successful: Milk sales have actually fallen every year since the ads began. The National Dairy Promotion and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Consumer Products, Food, Health
The cocktail of chemicals in milk
by David Derbyshire A glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, scientists have shown. Using a highly sensitive test, they found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk. The doses of drugs were far too small to have an effect on anyone drinking them, but the results highlight how man-made … Read entire article »
Filed under: Consumer Products, Drugs, Food



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