$JES 921 Book of Compassion Reverence For All Life Reference Book

Author(s): Pramoda Chitrabhanu, Pravin K Shah
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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11 - THE MYTH ABOUT MILK
Have you seen the aged old Indian dairy custom phookan - which is illegal by law but which is practiced on thousands of cows daily? As soon as the cow's milk starts getting less, a stick is poked into her uterus and manipulated causing her intense pain in the belief that this stress will lead to a gush of more milk in the udder. This custom causes sores in the uterus - think about it, women - but what does it matter when the cow is at the end of her milk-giving life any way and due to be either tied up and starved or to be thrown into a truck with 40 others and taken to the butcher?
— 8 GREAT SOURCES OF PLANT BASED PROTEIN —
1 cup 30 g
3 oz 18 g
1 cup 18 9
1 cup 15g
TEMPEH
2 ALMONDS
3
LENTILS
4 CHICKPEAS
1 cup 119
1 cup 99
1 cup 59
50UNOA
1 cup 79 7OATS
6 PEAS
8 SPINACH
There is this belief that dairy products give a lot of protein and iron. Most people who consume a lot of milk, specially vegetarians. In North India, the people who believe that milk and paneer are a protein substitute for meat, have been found to have iron deficiency causing anemia. Milk not only provides no iron - it actually blocks its absorption. Vegetables are the best source of iron for instance 50 gallons of milk is the equivalent (in iron content) of one bowl of spinach.
But what is the point of eating green vegetables if your single glass of milk is going to prevent the absorption of iron that you get from them? Listen to your body. Have you noticed that when you fall even slightly sick, the body feels nauseated at the thought of milk, that doctors recommend that you give it up till you are well? That is because after the age of four a large percentage of people lose the
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