Milk: it does a body bad?????
On the bus yesterday, I saw a very, very strange poster (the image is on this website.) It featured a multicultural group of people all competing for the bathroom, with extremely pained looks on their faces. It said that 75% of people are lactose intolerant, especially people of color, and if you are one of those people, you may have a lawsuit on your hands. What the fuck?
Well, it turns out that the ad was run by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a veritable group whose major campaigns concern animal testing and other standards for medical research. Apparently, the dairy industry's milk mustache campaign is misleading, attempting to convince consumers that milk is unequivocally necessary for a healthy diet, when in reality, it seems to be making lots of people sick. It also states that most of the stated benefits of milk drinking are overstated. (It doesn't help with weight loss, calcium is better absorbed through eating green leafy vegetables than dairy, etc.) They don't get into the hormones that much, but I'm pretty sure those aren't so good for you either. I guess it doesn't seem so crazy, after all, although I'm wondering what it is about residents of Washington, DC. Is the milk industry pushing especially hard here? PCRM has been pushing its "Get Real About Milk" campaign (www.getrealaboutmilk.org) for a while. Well, I'm generally pissed about various food industries controlling our perceptions of nutrition, so it seems a commendable effort. (Can we say "food pyramid", anyone?) I have to say, though, that their poster was pretty horrible. Can't you be a bit more subtle about "people of color" being "lactose intolerant"? Jeez. Oh well. I wish them luck with their lawsuit. (Do I have to be vegan now?? Damn it.)
The modest mouse concert was awesome! They played mostly songs from Good News..., which was unfortunate, because I didn't like that cd as much as possible, but they were so hot! The crowd was kind of funny, half high school students and half people in their 30s, with a smattering of pseudo hipsters. Plus, it was in the DAR hall. It's kind of weird to think about the creepy plots happening in the place where I was, but such is DC. Also, I doubt it's coincidence that their address is 1776 D St. Ew.
Well, it turns out that the ad was run by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a veritable group whose major campaigns concern animal testing and other standards for medical research. Apparently, the dairy industry's milk mustache campaign is misleading, attempting to convince consumers that milk is unequivocally necessary for a healthy diet, when in reality, it seems to be making lots of people sick. It also states that most of the stated benefits of milk drinking are overstated. (It doesn't help with weight loss, calcium is better absorbed through eating green leafy vegetables than dairy, etc.) They don't get into the hormones that much, but I'm pretty sure those aren't so good for you either. I guess it doesn't seem so crazy, after all, although I'm wondering what it is about residents of Washington, DC. Is the milk industry pushing especially hard here? PCRM has been pushing its "Get Real About Milk" campaign (www.getrealaboutmilk.org) for a while. Well, I'm generally pissed about various food industries controlling our perceptions of nutrition, so it seems a commendable effort. (Can we say "food pyramid", anyone?) I have to say, though, that their poster was pretty horrible. Can't you be a bit more subtle about "people of color" being "lactose intolerant"? Jeez. Oh well. I wish them luck with their lawsuit. (Do I have to be vegan now?? Damn it.)
The modest mouse concert was awesome! They played mostly songs from Good News..., which was unfortunate, because I didn't like that cd as much as possible, but they were so hot! The crowd was kind of funny, half high school students and half people in their 30s, with a smattering of pseudo hipsters. Plus, it was in the DAR hall. It's kind of weird to think about the creepy plots happening in the place where I was, but such is DC. Also, I doubt it's coincidence that their address is 1776 D St. Ew.
posted by Brynne at 9:57 AM
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