Organic Milk is Better!

Dairy is one of the first things people tend to get that is organic when they decide to switch over, mostly because of availability of the items. In almost any grocery market these days you can go in and buy a gallon organic milk for not too big of a price difference from nonorganic milk. In fact many organic milk producers can easily sell twice as much as what they produce and the US has to import 10% of its organic milk from Holland. Organic milk is defined as milk from cows that graze on organic pastures and are fed hay or silage. None of the food for dairy cows can be modified using chemical fertilizers, animal byproducts, or with the addition of medication and hormones. However organic dairy cows can be administered medication on an as needed basis. Nonorganic dairy cows are regularly given synthetic growth hormones to increase their milk production, however research has shown that not only can it affect preteen onset of puberty but also increase the possibility of women to have twins. Women are have an increased chance at having twins because the growth hormones given to dairy cows affects proteins in a woman’s body that increases ovulation. When it comes to dairy it seems like a no-nonsense decision to go organic. Women are told when they are breastfeeding to stay away from a lot of various things because everything they eat or use goes directly into their breast milk. So why do we inject dairy cows with antibiotics, growth hormones, and various other things and not think that it will come out in our milk? The answer is, because we can. By injecting those things into the dairy cows they produce more milk and stay healthy longer. In the end, milk and dairy are things that are definitely worth buying organic.