ChiefBongWater

just some facts about the cheese we eat. A small excerpt from a certain book that i wanted to share (I'm currently giving up dairy). Probably a boring post for most of you... too bad.

So many people have complained to us about how hard it was to give up cheese that we almost felt like we needed to set up some kind of support group in the basement of an area church where we served burnt coffee (with soy creamer) and let people talk about how many days cheese-clean they’ve been. Frankly, the whole thing was perplexing for us until we read up on casomorphins, or opioid chemicals that are present in cow’s milk (and by extension, very much present in cheese). Evolutionarily, these peptides probably had the function of creating a positive association between the calf and its mother and her milk. Now, however, humans consume more cow’s milk than calves do, and – improbable though it sounds – those who consume large amounts of dairy products are probably mildly addicted to them. It isn’t like you’re going to get the DTs or have seizures if you give up cheese, but certainly, these opiate effects can help to explain the more than mild cravings that lots of people have. A study underway during the time we were writing this book is looking at how casomorphins work in the human body, operating under the functional hypothesis that because cheese is one of the most commonly craved foods, it may be exerting mild opiate effects on its consumers. If this hypothesis is true the correct solution isn’t weaning yourself from crackcheeese slowly. As we suggest above, that would probably only lead you back to eating more cheese. The right solution is to stop eating cheese now, and to make an agreement with yourself never to eat it again. If you feel tempted to eat it, slide a paperclip over this page, and when you’re on the verge of eating cheese, come back here and remind yourself of these disgusting cheese facts:



-Cheese is made from milk, and milk almost always contains pus. You may comfort yourself by thinking that the pus is pasteurized, and certainly, pasteurization will prevent you from becoming ill, but you’re still eating pus. Look at it like this: you could stick a dog turd in an autoclave and render it biologically harmless with significant pressure and heat. Yet, we’re willing to wager that you’d not be anxious to eat it unless you have some very strange proclivities indeed.


-Forget about being vegan – most cheeses aren’t even vegetarian. Rennet, a stomach enzyme common to most mammals, is used to make cheese by “digesting” it, leaving behind a solid and a liquid. Rennet is often harvested from the stomachs of cattle in slaughterhouses, and used directly in cheese. Though there are vegetarian rennets synthesized by other means, it is difficult to know which cheeses use vegetarian rennet and which cheeses use the stuff scraped out of the stomachs of slaughtered animals. Yum! Cow stomach excretions obviously go great with pus!


-In order for you to have your beloved cheese, someone had to produce the milk to make the cheese, and we don’t mean a dairy farmer. The someone in this case is a nameless dairy cow, identified only by a number and probably an radio frequency identification tag in her ear that helps the slave ownerfarmer track her productivity so he can send her to slaughter once she underproduces. In the larger dairy operations, this cow may never go outside, and she will repeatedly give birth to calves who will be stolen from her almost immediately after they are born. She will live a short and miserable life, and end up as hamburger on the plate of some fast food consumer, all because you could not find the guts up to stop eating cheese or drinking milk. And you say you care about animals?


-Beyond being a disaster for cows, cheese is a disaster for you. A cup of diced cheddar has a whopping 532 calories, 385 of which come from fat. That includes 28 grams of saturated fat, which is 139% of amount recommended for total daily consumption by the United States government. And really, do you think those figures haven’t already been manipulated by decades of dairy and meat industry intervention in the government? To all that fat, you can add 139 milligrams of cholesterol and 820 mg of sodium. For comparison, if you decided to reach for a cup of chopped carrots instead, you’d be taking in fewer than a tenth of the total calories (52 calories for the whole cup) and less than 1 percent of the fat (3 calories versus 385 calories) than if you ate the cheese.

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Captain Cannabis

this is some crazy anti-cheese propaganda

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Eat right, stay fit, die anyway.



Sad, all you healthy fuckers, 98 years old laying in that convalescent hospital dying of nothing...

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Xil

i love cheese. i would eat it even if the enzymes came from the stomachs of innocent babies and puppy tears

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ChiefBongWater

heres a video for you guys

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Dr. Nick Nasty

nachos rule.

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Captain Cannabis

its one thing to talk shit about things like that, but some people actually are informed about the products they buy. i am going to label you a peta-style idiot from now on and read all your posts with a shrill winy voice.

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The Rev

God dammit.



The Rev

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ChiefBongWater

So whats your point?


I dont like using labels , but dont throw me into a category with a bunch of extremists. I think peta is a joke, they were actually caught harming/killing healthy animals in the past. I'm simply cutting out dairy because i dont want to be a part of what goes on in the industry. Plus I dont think that humans should be drinking milk that is intended for cows, I feel healthier without it.

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Grieves

yeah dudes drinking pusy tit fat from other animals isn't cool brahs...

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mothernature

I don't like scare tactics.

wellfleation

Yeah, my wife's father was recently put in a nursing home out of necessity.He's pretty good for an 85-year-old physically but gone mentally. He doesn't even recognize his own wife anymore and is a totally different person than he was just a year ago. I don't want to go out like that. My mother said she would rather have a bullet in her head than be placed in a nursing home.

So eat cheese. Nothing is that bad for you if done in moderation. I do no always follow this logic, however, and therefore, don't expect to live to be 85.

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wellfleation

That being said, Jack Loraine (I think that is his name), one of the 1st people ever to promote exercise and instruct others is still alive at 96 and in good shape I hear though. Besides exercise, his mantra is not to eat anything made by man. All natural all the way with plenty of exercise is how he lives his life to this day.

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wellfleation

And if you are religious, why fear death? I do not believe in organized religion, btw, I think it is a scam. But I do believe in a higher power than ourselves.

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Grieves

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wellfleation

Is that u?

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Grieves

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It's Jack LaLanne...


He was planning on celebrating his 95th birthday by swimming to Catalina from Long Beach, 26 miles in some of the vilest waters on the west coast.

Like you said, what good is getting old when you've lost your mind?!

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Sugar420

that part about pus is misleading

Captain Cannabis

the part about milk and cheese not being delicious is also a lie

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