to wish tax payers money was not paid to promote cows milk and dairy

[brt100]

Cards on table, I don't drink dairy as I'm health conscious, its for another animal with a very different body structure, diet and only for infants.

I get it that its delicious, well cheese is, but what I don't like is all these adverts on buses paid for partly by tax payers money to encourage people to drink milk. There are much better sources of calcium that the body can absob better so that argument is a con.

My sister gives her 7 yo a chease string every lunch time and thinks its healthy and vital.

This is the kind of junk advert tax payers are funding, hope the celebs are doing it for free.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2103750/Kelly-Osbourne-dons-milk-moustache-Make-Mine-Milk-campaign.html

I hope your threads keep coming. I envy your spare time if these things are all you have to worry about. All you seem to be intent on is making others feel like their thinking is inferior to yours.

Cards on table (narf), I eat and drink pretty much anything. Cheese is heavenly. Chocolate is better.

Hilarious. Really looking forward to the next one.

You seem to have so many issues with food OP. It must be exhausting.

I hope you shield your niece from all of this.

Even if you live the rest of your life as a junk-free, organic, raw food eating vegan, you'll probably be as dead as the rest of us by the time you're 110.

And if you're still going, it will be a life of continence issues, walking sticks and age-spots.

Let it go, and embrace the dark side. Something will kill you eventually, you might as well enjoy the ride.

Lol the only issues I have with food is that the human race is being poisoned, with governments supporting the food companies.

Funny how many others that don't share your point of view here feel the need be belittle me and throw insults, great life skills...

Op loves cheese really, it's her way of turning us from it so she can have it all

arf at being poisoned by dairy advertising.

Mind you being poisoned by chocolate is as good a way to go as any.

Makes me laugh that most threads on AIBU are pointless crap like if you should get a seat before you order in a cafe, or should I have shouted at the woman who parked her large merc in a p&c space when her child was at least 7, and we all sit and read it.

yet when someone starts a thread about the environment they are told they have 'too much time on their hands'

Let's be honest anyone reading AIBU probably has too much time on their hands!

I'm shocked that people are so rude, belittling and patronising to the OP.

There is huge ignorance about nutrition and diet and I think most of the western world are brainwashed to think dairy is healthy, worse still, vital to their health.

My personal belief (based on reading a lot on the subject) is that in 20/30 years time we will be horrified by the meat and dairy industry and we will know, with the certainty we have about smoking now, that it shortens lives.

I love milk and cheese myself and we can all giggle like school girls and post pictures of Brie and Stilton in protest but more and more people are becoming concerned that dairy causes certain health problems - one of them being breast cancer.

Poisoned, poisoned I tell you! By dairy products which your ancestors drank for the last several hundred years

*Makes me laugh that most threads on AIBU are pointless crap like if you should get a seat before you order in a cafe, or should I have shouted at the woman who parked her large merc in a p&c space when her child was at least 7, and we all sit and read it.

yet when someone starts a thread about the environment they are told they have 'too much time on their hands' *

This. Yes climate change is one of the most important things facing humanity.

and posting in AIBU will address that how?

also if you are going to make dramatic claims it might be worth posting some factual links to aid your argument

The consultant I see about my family predisposition to bowel cancer told me 15 years ago that dairy was good for my colon.

oh and my vegan friend (vegan for 30+ years) is currently facing a terminal cancer diagnosis - damn those carrots ...

You're very concerned about what your sister's kids eat, aren't you?!

A lack of calcium intake amongst the British female population is a major public health problem.

We need to consume more dairy not less.

Thousands of older women have osteoporosis. When they fall as older people often do this can and does cause complications which often leads to death.

I'd rather cows were mooing for a day than grandchildren crying for weeks because their dear granny has died 10 years too soon.

Oh climate change I agree with you on. But milk is a good way of getting protein and calcium into children. Well, it is into mine anyway.

Ffs no one said its impossible to get cancer if your a vegan, but its less likely.

Are you even serious? The countries that consume the most dairy also have the most osteoporosis.

I eat dairy and so do my children but I agree with the OP that no EU funding should be wasted on promoting a consumer product such as milk to support the dairy industry. If it is a sustainable consumer-led industry, it will be commercially successful. There is a lot wrong with the EU food policy, one of it being that it encourages the over-production of certain foods. I agree with the political point which I don't think has to be attached to an anti-dairy stance.

Oh. That's some seriously subtle comedy.

The countries that consume the most dairy also have the most osteoporosis.

Correlation does not prove causation, I thought everyone knew that by now.

Oh why do I open threads like these.....the ignorance makes me want to put my head in my hands and weep....

Firstly, if it is a fact that the dairy industry is very cruel. Just type the words into google and you will come up with page after page of evidence for this. Mother cows are repeatedly impregnated, have their babies taken from them and cry for them for days afterwards, have short, miserable lives until their bodies are completely broken and they're sent to the slaughterhouse to be ground up for pet food. Often they are so spent that they can't even walk to the vans that transport them to the slaughterhouse. It's utterly disgusting.

If you are a reasonable, intelligent adult you might recognise that this is something exploring and might even consider changing your diet accordingly.

If you are an ignorant, self centred twat, you will probably do as many of these thread have done and refuse to educate yourself and instead make utterly pathetic 'jokes' about lovely cheese and milk chocolate.

In that case, I dare you to watch this. Seriously, click the link if you have an ounce of integrity and the slightest desire to know how your eating habits impact on other living beings who believe me, have just as much right to live decent lives as you do.

Thankfully, people who snigger on about cheese and lovely bacon are slowly but surely a dying breed and people are slowly waking up to the fact that we cannot go on like this.

Oh, and animal protein leaches calcium from the bones, so calcium does not protect you against osteoporosis. Again, google it. The dairy industry is massive though and has deep pockets, and a lot of marketing spend goes into persuading us of its benefits.

It is pretty depressing that a thread like this gets the OP ridiculed (and probably me now though I don't intend to come back to view the abuse) but something about a car parking space and what the OP's MIL said to her gets 500 posts.

That's so true partialderivative

Did you see these a while ago?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27537142

brt100 you are on a hiding to nothing - they would rather belittle you than actually face up to the fact you could well be correct, it was the same in the 1960's with smoking…..

Urm erm what well least its a different winge about tax payers money which im not even sure is true milk and dairy is part of the food groups not there fault you are weird about milk dairy is actually good for you

The Milk Marketing Board was wound up in 1994; its Scottish equivalent ten years or so later.