i dont really get this video, here in Caucasian mountains, Milk and dairy product is literally what people who live in villages drink al lthe time, not because of "unsold stockpiles" but because it considered as a healthy thing and is part of cultural cousine..
Milk is the shit and what weirdo drinks milk and thinks that your being breast fed? Cows don't even have breasts. Udder fed maybe lmao. Yall mad goofy.
Careful now, you don’t wanna be labelled a conspiracy theorist. But honestly tho, my personal experience is that people don’t necessarily believe the government and politicians to be honest, they’re just apathetic towards it.
@@Jonas-Seiler wish it were simple apathy, I experienced a lot of reasonable family and friends become unpaid salesmen for big pharma a couple years ago. biologically, we are the same as nazis and every other social adventure gone wrong. wish it weren't so, but corporations know how to flip a switch and turn most of us into manchurian candidates. me, you, and others like us who "are able to see beyond the shadows and lies" of our culture will unfortunately be pit against armies of manchurian candidates.
Brother, you have mastered this video essay thing. Your vids are very dense with knowledge and the way you present tells a linear story that keeps us interested and invested. Great work🎉❤
When I was homeless and strung out on drugs I think milk was the only thing that kept me alive. Lol. Whole milk. Red cap. I drank it and not much else and survived.. so therefore I am greatful to milk. I don't drink it much anymore, but I'll never forget what it has done for me. ❤️
Milk is also the reason why the Netherlands came from being one of the shortest country in Europe to becoming the tall monsters that they are now. Dont think to much of Johnny Harris. He is a WEF stooge, CIA asset.
@@hyperphenomenal4360 the government doesn’t assist the homeless and puts millions in food insecurity, and you’re turning this sad story into the government deserving props? This is r/orphancrushingmachine material
We literally studied the "Got Milk" marking campaign in one of my Uni marketing classes in the past week and I was like I wish there was someone who's videos I like watching makes something related to milk and then bingo this man comes in clutch!!
As someone with liver and kidney problems? Milk is just amazing and there is literally nearly nothing oz for oz as cheap and jam packed with both macro and micronutrients. You have to go into dietary or nutritional drinks to get that and while I love Nova Source? It has too many vitamins and minerals and I have to be careful not to get too much of any as my body cannot clear them. Phosphorous being the biggest one I struggle with. I need to gain weight. A glass of full milk has lipids, carbs, and complete protein. I've tried the other replacements and they just don't compare. Especially when I buy Lacktaid Protein or Fairlife. Sure it is saturated fat but ATM I need any fat in order to gain weight for a transplant. Chocolate Milk is also the nectar of the gods! Anyway like all super foods and such it isn't a pancea. Moderation is also key. PS: One reason why Milk is important for me is because of the low fluid restrictions. I can only have 24oz of liquid per day and that includes water in food. So it doesn't make sense for me to drink something like clean ice water or even juice... If I put something in my body? Ideally it should have both macro and micronutrients. To me this is the hardest thing about dying is the fact I don't produce urine. No coffee, tea, juice, soup... I am forever thirsty and if I ever get a transplant the first thing I'm doing is chugging a huge glass of ice cold chocolate milk. Making a slushi and drinking it till I puke or can't handle the brain freeze.
Awesome work, as always. Grew up on a dairy farm, in the 70’s. Didn’t overdo it at our house, loved it raw. I have one daughter who is lactose intolerant, kind of ironic. Keep doing what you’re doing, love it all.
In my childhood I had gas so bad I thought I would explode. I was in tears and my mom consulted with experts and doctors and they said I was swallowing air when I was eating and they taught me how to blow air out when taking a spoon full of food. It turns out, it was just milk. I ate cereal and milk daily, massive amounts.
Omg, this finally explains it. When I was growing up as a kid I was always wondering “why in Hollywood movies and shows Americans drink milk all the time?”. In shops you can buy a GALLON of milk and that’s SHITLOAS of milk. Our packaging in Eastern Europe goes up to 2L which is almost half a gallon.
I don't know how it is in Europe or other parts of the world, but my experience with South America, is that no body, not even children drinks pure milk, actually the idea is kind of disgusting actually, milk is a ingredient and so drinking pure milk would be like eating pure wheat flower. My hunch is that drinking pure milk was a social engineering thing and lets say in the XIX century and back not even Americans did it. PS: I almost forgot: the absolute nauseating thing about people drinking pure milk in America movies for people in South America that I've spoken is eating it with food that you would eat drinking a coke, juice, wine, whatever but not freaking milk! That is gross!
Indian moms also act like milk is the holy grail despite a significant portion of India being lactose intolerant. I’d love to see how this false narrative about milk trickled down to other countries. but drinking plain milk by itself is still weird in india - we have so many malt powder mixes to make it taste better & so these malt companies are advertised more than the milk itself. My biggest culture shock when I moved to America was finding out that Americans drink plain raw milk, especially along with a meal
@@freedom_aint_freeno actually. Millions of people of not billions grew up with milk in Europe far before advertisement existed. Most European countries are aparted by lactose tolerant people. You can also build up those enzymes by consuming small quantities per day but w/e I responded too much in this sections
It really was insane how hard schools pushed students to drink milk. A couple years ago, during the peak of the pandemic, I chose to go back to school in person. I should mention this was an optional choice, and most kids chose to stay virtual. Yet, it seemed like the school didn’t adjust the the amount of milk they were ordering. Grabbing a milk box became mandatory at lunchtime, I tried every day to refuse it, knowing I wouldn’t drink it and that it would be wasted. One day the lunch lady just straight up said “Look I know your lactose intolerant, just take the milk and throw it in the trash.” (I’m not even lactose intolerant but I guess she assumed I was since I kept trying to refuse the milk, I just think it’s crazy that the school was encouraging me to waste it.)
Just a thought... getting a child to drink a glass of milk to get 300mg of calcium is way easier than trying to get them to eat a 100g of almonds. I can get calcium from cabbage if I wanted to, but I'd have to eat a shitload of it to get even nearly the same amount (oxylates in cabbage bond with calcium, thus reducing the amount available for absorbtion) So yes, you can get calcium from other sources but do remember that it's the ease of ingestion as well as nutrient density that also play a major factor.
This. I was a picky eater as a child, but I loved milk. So all my parents had to do to make sure I got all the nutrients I needed, was put milk on the table and serve up some potatoes - all bases covered, in the simplest way possible. Almonds, lmao. I'm sure there are kids out there who love them, but I couldn't get my own kid to eat one even if it's in an ice cream chocolate bar (real life example btw, he literally stopped eating the ice cream and said I could have it).
Most plant milks are fortified with calcium. Soy milk is high in protein, too, and much, much better for the environment, and 100% better for the animals.
yeah, he didnt use very good examples. canned fish with bones is really the only other natural food that contains excellent amounts of calcium. canned sardines provide 540mg per 100g for 126calories, and skim milk contains 307mg per cup for 92 calories. kale and tofu are other good sources but not as good as milk or fish. kale provides 254mg per 100g for 35 calories (with next to no oxalates), and tofu 176mg for 137calories. i dont think almonds are very good because they contain a lot of fat for the amount of calcium they provide (269mg per 100g for 579calories)
During lunch as a kid I always felt sick after eating. Turns out it was the milk that was given out as the drink. Juice was also available but that always went first. Later I found out I was very lactose intolerant. I feel much better today on a day to day basis now that I avoid all things dairy.
I was in the same boat!! I was always bloated and gassy. This was everyday, because they give you milk (to this day) for every meal in school!!! I didn't realize until after I graduated high school that I was lactose intolerant 🙃..
easy, drink a small cup everyday like 10-20ml to coffee/chocolate, now i can tolerance to milk/lactose, same to sea food, teach your body to tolerance not to avoid all of it
Great video as always! I'm from the Netherlands the country of cheese/milk. In the 90s our schools had some sort of subscriptions that in our lunchbreak (we bring our own food) everyone at school gets milk. I always found this super odd.
The worst thing about modern "American" (I'm Australian and we have much the same problem) milk was watching you pour the milk from the carton and seeing how thin watery and see through it is. proper milk isn't like that, but what they put in the bottle has already had most of the good stuff stripped out for cream butter and cheese production. Just like Kraft cheese is a pale imitation of proper real cheese.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
@@lukesantamaria94 your point is valid about fat content. However some milk will have more solids than others, depending mostly on the breed but also the diet. Skim milk from a Jersey cow will be less watery than whole milk from a Holstein.
I grew up in Finland in early 2000's and the biggest dairy producer of the country was advertising drinking milk with posters in school cafeterias. And in primary school if you didn't drink milk during school lunch, teachers would look you badly and ask why.
I went to American middle school in 2013 & we also had milk posters in our cafeteria & the lunch lady would make sure we had either a serving of vegetable or milk on our plates
One of the unfortunate truths about being a biologist that I had to learn in my undergraduate studies was where the money comes from to actually fund any proposed research. So very much of it is from groups with lots of money and an agenda and when you pitch your research idea, you have to basically sell your research potential as a product: either as a way to make of save money. The other options are government funding which is a nightmare of red tape and can completely be just as biased or charities/special interest groups like WWF (panda not smackdown) who might have much more altruistic intensions but are equally as biased. So you have to juggle skewing your pitch to be as attractive as possible and then immediately turn around and be as unbiased and analytical as possible so you can practice good science (as you always should) and not get flagged during peer review. All this while under the realization that it's a "publish or perish" job market and if you keep getting "boring" results your career will go nowhere. I'm not saying that biologists who run the studies like the "bigger rats on milk" one in the video are unscrupulous just that there is this massive "sword of Damocles" hanging over all of our heads to produce results that will let us keep doing research. This isn't to say that we are all soulless, greedy puppets who produce false narratives for our benefactors; quite the opposite. Most of the biologists I know and have worked with are people with only the best intensions who pursue knowledge for it's own sake with an almost childlike desire to simply better understand the nature of living things and how they function for the betterment of everything and everyone but are forced to navigate the maze of biased capitalism and politics. An example I like to use is from a presentation I saw from a post-grad while I was doing my undergrad. It was basically "what happens to spiders in winter" it was basic and should be easy to find out, but the honest answer is that we have no evidence based idea what happens to them. I asked afterwards why we don't know and the simple answer was because there is profit in knowing: they aren't pests, we can't make new products or medicine from knowing, and they aren't big cuddly adorable mammals with a million people ready to protest for them. Simply put- we want to know but no one will give us the money.
All I'm reading here is "I don't have the spare time to research milk or what spiders do in winter" and both things are so prosaic and accessible that I wouldn't believe anyone's excuses why they don't know or aren't pursuing the questions if they also purport to be interested. I think those are interesting things to research and everyone can spend free time to investigate them. I have a feeling once you do the research and publish you might start attracting the corporate paymasters for some expository research in the fields of spiders and milk and then get that fat moolah you want so much; literally no amount of money obliges you to lie or be biased about anything. You might face consequences of the money faucet being turned off but isn't the world full of things to research? Like peanut butter. When was the last time someone did some great research into peanut butter. Peanut butter is a billion dollar industry. When Peanut Butter Bad from J. Harris productions?
I bet there are lots of politicians who would argue along the same lines "I want to help change the world for the better, but all the money and influence that it buys to create change, comes from lobbyist"..... A sellout is still a sellout
@@Elite244 Actual research that can be published isn't generally cheap to do, even for small prospective studies just to see if a topic has further research potential. It's not really an out-of-pocket thing in most cases. (Ironically, psych studies are actually some of the cheapest.) Also, as Lillith mentions, publishing is its own problem- because there aren't people with infinite free time to do peer review (which is generally an unpaid task), there is a limit to how many articles can and will be published in peer-reviewed publications. The bias there is towards papers that demonstrate some strong outcome- while there is great scientific value in studies whose conclusion is "We didn't find any statistically significant results", unless it is about something controversial, it will be hard to get published, at which time you have wasted the time and resources you used for the study, while some other researcher did one of the milk-fed rat studies, got a publication credit, and is now able to maybe get some funding for the research they want to do that doesn't involve milk, in addition to having a better shot at promotion and/or tenure. If you do the spider study and all you can figure out is "they aren't in spots A, B, or C during the winter", that is great information, but it's not going to go anywhere but your own filing cabinet. A close friend of mine did a study funded by a local news station. He was testing the pushbars on grocery carts to see how germy they were. Turns out, the environment around here is so dry that it makes hard surfaces like that very inhospitable, and unless there was so much dampness that it would be obvious on the handles, germs lasted about two minutes. Unsurprisingly, that didn't make the news. They were looking for a shock study, and the fact that people could be calm about that particular hazard wasn't what they had use for. There is a severe problem with inconclusive studies or ones that don't produce "interesting" or desired results being trashed, and all the time and resources the researchers put into it are just gone. Calling them lazy for wanting to avoid the career effects of repeatedly doing studies that don't get published just seems shallow to me.
Growing up milking cows in rural Wisconsin, I'm glad someone as high profile as you is shining some light on the absolute craziness of the dairy market. It's like no other market out there (besides maybe natural makeup syrup but they're tiny). Most Americans don't ever think about this stuff, and why would they? They just go grocery shopping like they were taught. So thank you very much 🤘
If anyone wants an alternative, there are tens of different types of plant milk and hundreds of brands. Most people either like oat milk soy milk or almond milk. Oat milk definitly is the most environmental friendly and imo the tastiest. Dont be disappointed if you dont like one, some other brand might be just yours!
@@maxheim3802 most of these plant-based milks are bad for you Oat milk is also bad for you. And soy milk literally makes you a pussy mentally. I'm not knocking on you I'm just stating facts. But everybody's entitled to do what they want it's your body. But there's a reason they came up with the term soy boy.
@@maxheim3802 Oat and Soy 'milk' are not milk and should not be legally allowed to be called as such. Why does the FDA allow this but requires Velveeta to be a 'Cheese-like Product'
I think context is crucial. Mr Harris makes some great points here but it’s worth thinking about what you’re drinking instead. Realistically its the 2nd healthiest drink after water - fruit juice and smoothies are sooo full of sugar (eating fruit let’s you take the sugar in slowly and chewing sets of a whole load of processes that prepare your body for what’s coming), refined sugar is bad and any sweetener (even ‘natural’ sweeteners) are ultra-processed, and our bodies aren’t at all adapted to deal with something that tastes like sugar (which upon tasting may for example cause the body to raise insulin levels) but actually isn’t. Best drink water, 2nd best milk, then comes everything else
I agree and stated in another comment that I was unbelievably active as a child. I drank drank an insane amount of milk BUT other than water what would have been better that was readily available when I was a kid? Coke? Sport drinks? I drank lots of Gatorade to when it exploded on the scene. Likely more genes than anything but I was healthier and in better shape than anyone at my high school or college. Don’t regret it. 😁
I am lactose intolerant, pasteurization also removes the digestive enzymes within the milk itself and when I was able to get a hold of unpasteurized milk for a while. I never had lactose issues with unpasteurized milk. Then when I had to return to pasteurized, the lactose issues came right back 😢.
Good to see someone in these comments who knows what they are talking about 👍 Intolerance to lactose is due to pasteurisation, it kills the beneficial bacteria that facilitate the production of the lactase enzyme in the small intestine. Many indigenous cultures still consume animal milks without issue. I used to be severely “lactose intolerant” until I tried raw milk. We are mammals, we can consume another mammals milk and utilise the highly bioavailable nutrients within it at any stage of life. Common sense 👍
What REALLY pissed me off was that all the way until High School graduation, they gave us milk for free but a water bottle was $1!!Milk never quenched my thirst. Water always does even to this day.
We had to pay for our lunch unless we got milk as well.. 16oz water bottle cost $2, 6oz apple juice cost $1.50, and a lunch without milk cost $3. I hated it so much
My friend is a food scientist who works for DMI, and was sent to Taco Bell for 10 years, she's just finished a 4 year stint at Kroeger - and her WHOLE JOB is getting more cheese into food. She is responsible for the taco bell products you love guys, a New Zealander employed by USDA and sent into places to shill for cheese. The irony is she is lactose intolerant!!!!
@@GameFuMaster”virtually lactose free” isn’t 100% lactose free. There are proteins in dairy that people struggle with as well like myself. I blowup like a blowfish when I eat dairy even goat milk has lactose. There’s more to this than “lactose intolerance” that people struggle with.
@@GameFuMaster The irony is that a person who is lactose intolerant has a job to promote products that generally have lactose in them - to the extent that the product and lactose are all but synonymous. It'd be like someone allergic to caffeine being a coffee promoter. The fact that decaf coffee can exist does not reduce in any way the irony of that situation.
I absolutely LOVE it when you site your sources. The nerd in me is so happy when I see that. You should put it on all of your videos please!!! All of them. Even the ones you’ve already posted. I want to learn more and know more about where you got this information and why you think this way.❤❤❤ I love your content. Keep up the excellent work.
@@twohandsandaradioyes, because the journalist reporting on misinformation is not supposed to have to cite where they got their information. Genius, I'm sure this will never be a problem in the future.
Growing up my mother had to actually stop giving me milk within weeks of being born because they found out I was born with a milk allergy AND intolerance of it entirely. So.. Imagine growing up around all this, and having teachers trying to force me to a point my parents had to get a doctors note to say 'Hey, they have an actual allergy, DONT GIVE THEM DAIRY AT ALL'
I am vegan and can relate. Isn't it disappointing when you want to buy a product, but when you look at the ingredients they include dairy for no apparent reason?
Surprised to learn about this. Growing up in the southern part of India, unsweetened (very slightly sour) Yogurt mixed with rice is a finishing item for us in every meal since a long time. There are poems which describe the love of curd (Yogurt is more in use in America) mixed with rice from as old as 11th Century CE. In fact, I only started hearing about lactose intolerance after coming onto the internet and meeting people from other parts of the world.
Milk is really good for you because it provides every nutrient your body needs. That's why mammals only drink milk for the first months of their lives, when they are the most vulnerable. He didn't do a good job of explaining the cultural or biological reasons why people drink milk. There are valid, non-conspiratorial reasons to consume dairy products, that Johnny glossed over.
Up to age 30 I thought it normal to have a sort of rope of mucus in the back of my throat most of the time. Then a friend told me much of what is in this video. So I stopped consuming milk except for cooking. Goodbye mucus. I was discussing this with a friend who's an opera performer and she said, "OMG, you didn't know that? It's the first thing they tell you in voice training. No milk, no smoking." Live and learn.
@@GameTrailersPlus It kinda gums up the pipes as well but I love tzatziki sauce so I indulge occasionally....
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I'm Indian and we pretty much have a Milk fad much similar to that in America and most other Northern European states. Much similar to your mom my mom too kept insinuating I drink milk despite the fact that I was well past the required age to do so. I tried explaining to her that it never really had all the benefits most people think it does, but she kept reprimanding me.
And People in India got their milk digesting genes from the same place Europeans did! We even have shared linguistic heritage from our common ancestors.
@@Bacopa68 people from the pontic-Caspian steppe. Although the Yamnaya expansion and common ancestry to modern day Indians and Europeans are just some sort of shared ancestry Like in Europeans the genetic composition is EEF, (Eearly European farmers) WHG(West Hunter-Gatherer) and Steppe-like ancestry (Yamnaya) and in Indians Although they have ancestry from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe like modern Europeans, the rest of theirs genetic background is different.
Milk has a lot of protein and protein consumption is actually correlated with height. That also explains why states like Punjab and Haryana where people drink significantly more milk, have the tallest people in India.
I'm from Italy and when I moved to the UK I was quite shocked but the amount of milk people drink or have it as an ingredient in so many things, people drinking tea with milk/lattes/cappuccinos at any time during the day, a culture shock!!
As a Milk drinking adult Swedish man. It is kind of weird when you found out growing up everyone else doesnt really consume dairy product the way we do. We have rows upon rows in of different dairy products in Scandinavia. Stuff you never even heard of ;) Ever heard of Norwegian Röme? Its the bastard child of Cream, sour cream and creme fraiche and its delicious.
As a Dutchie, I agree. There are just so many dairy products to choose from. However, milk does not seem to be too big here. I feel like cheese is by far the most consumed dairy product in the Netherlands.
A few years back, Canada’s Food Guide removed dairy products from the pyramid and it made national news. Basically said to drink more water and get vitamins from other spaces. Personally, i never liked milk. Only get it for my coffee and my cereals. My twin sister is lactose intolerant and my brother was intolerant to bovine proteins when he was young.
My grandfather had 5 sons and 5 daughters. They never drink milk. They live past 80 years. The oldest one immigrated into the US when he was about 55 years old. He went to medical checkup and the doctor always said his health was good. He died at about 85 years old. All of my uncles swam and played soccer a lot when they were young and they did physical work. We are from Vietnam.
@@TomVCunningham bananas were basically bought and grown with blood money, the Banana business led to the death, oppression and empoverishment of millions just to help greedy food companies like Monsanto and Dole
It's funny how, when I first tried "american cheese" (I'm foreigner, only got to try that at 17) I couldn't help thinking that was the only thing in America that looked, felt and taste like it was produced in the Soviet Union... now I know why 😂
I see what you mean 😂even if you hear the phrase "government cheese" out of context might expect it to be referring to Soviet cheese 😂good point ☝i.e. regardless of whose government it is, a government-produced (sponsored/supported) food product might tend to be bland and not delicious. Excellent comment 👏
I grew up in Europe and moved to the US at 17 so American "cheese" is pretty revolting to me but people here grew up with it so they don't think anything of it. BTW the same thing happens with white "bread", "chocolate", "mustard" and other "foods" that would make a European who grew up on baguettes, Milka, Dijon etc. wanna throw up. That said, poor people are more likely to consume those cheap foods, and quality stuff IS available if you're willing to pay actual money. Like you can buy a loaf of "bread" for $1 but also actual bread for $3+
This story is so important to more than just milk. This is happening in so many US industries: cars, airlines, and now housing. We’re often given to conspiratorial thoughts about these government interventions but just as with milk the story usually starts from a place of need and limited government action (feeding troops) but is quickly exploited by people with an agenda. This is exactly what happened after the housing collapse and is occurring now with massive conglomerates and investors gambling on the prices of homes fully expecting the government to bail them out so that people won’t go homeless. We need serious government reform of food, transportation and housing in our country and we can’t continue to be distracted by nonsense that doesn’t actually affect our lives.
I don't disagree. Government does one thing - it effs things up. BTW - the '08 housing crises was created by then-president Bill Clinton's (BTW - Clinton's *real* surname is Blythe) HUD director, Cuomo, mandating all quasi-government lending institutes write 50% of loans as sub-prime loans. You know, someone flipping burgers at McDonalds *could* be making 200K per years... (wink, wink). Oh, and now Xiden's quasi-government housing loans will penalize people with good credit to pay more for their loans than people with bad credit as to subsidize loan payments for those with bad credit. B-b-b-b-b-but my senator is really a good senator...! */s*
My grandparents are dairy farmers. They don't actually drink milk themselves just sell it. I just find it funny. It's also interesting you mention cars in need of reform. In the US car manufacturers are pushing for larger and larger cars/trucks and telling us we need vehicles that large. Yet my farming grandparents get by with significantly smaller trucks from the 90s ( sides tractors of course ). I'm actually a part of a research group that studies ruminants in cattle. It turns out that factory farms feed their cows all kinds of food they shouldn't be eating and the microbes inside their digestive tract produce significant amounts of greenhouse gas. (You should look it up). However if you do what my grandparents do and let the cattle walk around the field and eat grass they don't produce as much greenhouse gas and are healthier/ live longer.
Something will always be getting pushed. If it’s not oil, then it’s renewables. If it’s not milk, then it’s Meatless Mondays. Unless you have a completely hands-off government that gives no guidance or assistance to any industry, in other words a purely Libertarian country, then you’re going to be fed something with an agenda. Literally.
A video on those subjects would have been a lot more informative than one about otherwise awesome milk. This specific video was extremely limited in value.
Great video! I am so glad that we are in the "oat/almond/coconut milk era" since I also grew up in the 90's where milk was waiting in the table right before school and lactose intolerance wasn't in the dictionary.
Meh, the fake milk era is stupid too. Just drink water if you're lactose intolerant. I'd say it's generally a good idea to limit the amount of weird stuff we drink.
@@felucca I personally try to consume filter water since tap water or even the one in bottles seem to be harmful.🤐 Everyday a new study pop-ups where everything is bad for your health and u should not consume
It fascinates me that big dairy is pushing cheese so hard but fast food places like taco bell and pizza hut seem to serve cheese-like substances that are mostly oil-based.
Oil is liquid fat. Cheese has from .5-40% fat by volume. I’m calling BS if the cheese-like substance *isn’t* oily when heated. Now I just want a Personal Pan Pizza. It’s like an oily cheese puddle. 🫠
The OP is right that these places often use emulsified products that contain cheese, but probably don't contain enough cheese to be legally called cheese. You can either hate it or embrace it. Note: This is different from cheese that is heated and has the oil separate.
@@dannymac6368 I'm certainly not speaking from a thoroughly investigated / researched position, so all criticisms are valid. But my understanding is that most fast food cheese starts from an oil-based method combined with a cheese production method, with cheese being in far fewer abundance. Taco Bell for at least a decade seems to be trying to cut the cheese out altogether with the nacho cheese spread on most of their items.
Cheese is still much healthier than refined oil based "cheeses". especially if made from grass fed free range cows no antibiotics or steroids. But good luck finding that
I've been binge-watching your videos, Johnny, for about 3 months. I find them very enlightening. You are an excellent journalist. A video on alcohol consumption would really be appreciated. According to the WHO, amongst legal and illegal drugs, alcohol is the one that causes most social damage. Keep up the great work!!!
I love how we’re basically watching Johnny Harris work through his childhood problems. I mean, the man is absolutely right. We were oversold on milk. It's painful to see the lie in retrospect.
More like Johnny Harris is insecure because he’s ashamed of not being raised to be a good liberal activist and it really shows. Strong hick lib vibes from this guy
Maybe we are today, but in the past it was one of the crucial foods. All my grandparents had a small farm and they made their own butter, milk, cheese to have food on the table. They were poor and their weren't big grocery stores like today. And guess what, they all reached the age of 90+ so i'm pretty sure it wasnt that bad. There was a time that our ancestors only ate meat and had to hunt each day. And nowadays they tell you meat is bad and you have to go vegan.
our ancestors lived short lives with their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, the reason we live in cities today is because our ancestors managed to domesticate and farm crops, leading to an abundance of food without the need to find and kill wild animals that otherwise would die out
@@redwhite_040That generation was also a lot more physically active. Not saying milk is bad but feel like there were a lot more variables playing into why ppl made it to 90+.
My great-grandfather had like the 3rd largest dairy farm in the state of Michigan and literally met with the governor and lt governor in his living room because he was like the president of the dairy farmers association or something... pretty crazy how much power dairy farmers had...
@@Verniece1968 sugar has its consequences in the amount of processed foods Americans digest daily, but I'm still pretty sure the factual sources say it's better than the fakes. Also sugar doesn't make children go wild, its a placebo we've boughten into (No I don't work in the sugar market)
"Like, am I the only one who thought 'pasteurization' came from, like, the cow's pasture, but [twas] actually just a French guy's [surname]?" Nope, you're not the only one. I did, too.
THIS explains why the majority of "Leave It to Beaver" episodes from the 1950s include Wally and the Beaver drinking milk AND sometimes even talking about it. Ice cream, too. There's even an episode where mom, June Cleaver, swigs down a big glass... which has always struck me as peculiar. Finally, an explanation for one of my favorite old shows! Thank you ❤🎉
The food pyramid we all grew up with is practically the exact OPPOSITE of what our diet is supposed to be, the US government is completely untrustworthy on this stuff.
I know, right? Your diet ought to be based on sugar, salt and fat and you should eat as few vegetables and fruit as possible. An opposite pyramid, that's what we need.
@TillyOrifice Not what I was implying, if you cut out the tip a reverse pyramid means low carbs (minimal vegetable / cereal crop consumption) and high protein / fat (protein is the better of the two though). This is scientifically backed and the high carbs are why America has such an obesity epidemic. Can still eat vegetables but it has to be high nutrient low carbs ones like spinach / brocoli, cereal crops are a no go though other than protein extract from them like saitan.
I was born in 1972 and grew up in this milk era. Much to my parent’s chagrin I hated milk. They would push it on me constantly but it upset my stomach as did cheese. Eventually they gave up. I’m now 50, have never broken a bone despite being a very active person and don’t seem to have any health issues…other than being lactose intolerant 😂😂
@@Alex-ds6sw Also 52. Drank tons of milk, because I never drank any alcohol. I feel like I'm trapped in an 18yo's body. I do 20 miles of inline speedskating. Drinking a glass now. Works very well for me.
I never much cared for milk as a child. When I got pregnant, my mother insisted I needed to drink lots of milk. I bloated up so badly, turns out I was seriously lactose intolerant.
Can you imagine if we could rebuild the world with our current knowledge and not rely on old beliefs and governments that will NEVER admit that they were wrong even decades ago?
When I came to the USA as a young adult, I was surprised to see adults drinking milk ! We had milk as children and people always had milk in tea and coffee but seeing adults drinking big glasses of milk just blew my mind - it still does ! Thanks for explaining.
I remember spending entire primary and secondary school years squirming in pain due to lactose intolerance. It was not until one day I decided to drink black coffee instead of milk coffee and felt wonderful. That was when I realized milk was not meant for me and cut down pretty much as 95% of my milk consumption since. Best decision of my life 😂
Good for you. I think I'm somewhat lactose intolerant, but just got used to it. Went vegan and cheated once and realized that I felt like shit after eating just a slice of cheese. Very strange feeling realizing you've been harming yourself for decades. I have somewhat unconsciously decreased my dairy consumption slowly overtime because I noticed harmful effects after a ton of dairy and just thought it was normal, but intuitively felt it wasn't the healthiest thing to eat for me. It's pretty insane they've been pushing dairy like this in a multicultural country when most of the world shouldn't be consuming the stuff.
@@Cancellator5000 how can someone cheat to morals and values of not wanting to use or abuse innocent sentient animals? Do yoy also cheat not being a rapist and rape sometimes? Being vegan is not a diet, thus, someone can't cheat, its just ethics and morals. Someone that rapes is a rapist, it doesn't matter how often or how not often that person does it.
I wish they still did that. Now the average teens' diet consists of vape, sugar drinks, and lots of artificially produced snacks plus a fuck ton of candy. It's honestly tragic. Humans state of health is on a severe decline...
Thank you for continually uncovering the facts! I am from 🇬🇧 UK and have never understood why processed cheese was in such high demand! My expat friends are always saying that food here in the US has so much cheese on it!!! “Cheese with everything!” Please keep the content coming it is refreshing to hear an unbiased viewpoint. Consider a piece on High Fructose Corn Syrup, if you want to continue to be the “FoodGuy”.
Here is a quote that I will recite here for entertainment purposes. "Make no mistake, pasteurization was never about healthier milk. It was all about flipping the business from the Milkman to the grocery store, making the sale of raw milk illegal solidified the deal... & you can take that to the bank...
People were actually being harmed from milk expiration I believe it was actually AL Capone who lobbied for it because his niece got sick due to expired milk
@@TSTH-camryeah, most likely that also contributed, however is about profit margins, raw milk is perfectly safe but it needs better practices... If you pasteurize you can just get more cows in a smaller place and not clean at all... So better margins.
Parents were from Caribbean and Central America, so they did not grow up drinking excessive amounts of milk- maybe a few cups a week from dairy GOATS. Everything else that you wanted for a smooth, unctous, fatty flavor was done using homemade coconut milk or peanut milk. I grew up only drinking milk was I was little, usually at school, and even then it was hard to get kids to drink it, so it was sweetened and flavored (chocolate and strawberry milk) I don't drink milk now, and only have cheese in dishes a couple of times a month.
I rarely drink milk, like basically never, but almost everything I eat has cheese in it. Unless it's Chinese food, or some other asian-styled cuisine, my food is cheese filled lol.
I had lots of acne as a teen, but then I stopped eating dairy and eggs and my acne reduce like 99%. Not saying dairy is the cause of acne, but if you’re acne prone dairy is not your friend. Also, I eventually found the true cause of acne from Medical Medium, which is strep bacteria that love to eat dairy and eggs.
In health class in high school we had to build a balanced plate for a project and we had to put two sources of dairy. I’m lactose intolerant but I wasn’t allowed to not put something so my teacher made me lie on my project.
@@praddumnvats6759 or yours. Could be they have attention deficit, or have a baby to take care of, or only have internet at work. There COULD be valid reasons, before assuming and making yourself look like a fool, consider some things.
I feel like most of JH's topics are stuff I've heard about briefly in school or on social media, but he has a way of reminding you of them and then going in depth that is really awesome!
Some older ladies in my church in the 80’s (I was a kid) got govt cheese and would bring it to potlucks, etc. I miss it so much, to me it’s what cheddar was supposed to taste like. Nostalgia FTW.
“American Cheese” sold in the UK can’t even legally be called cheese, I’ve got a pack here and it’s labelled ‘Processed slices made using a blend of cheese, palm oil and milk proteins’ 🤔
When I was in school I had free lunch, so i never had the choice to drink water because that costed money but milk was free. I did always find that odd.
I loved when my lactose intolerant 5-year-old was told drinking milk would be great for his growth by his pediatrician, who then handed me a brochure from the National Dairy Council 😂 2 years later I’m still shook 🙄
Raw milk won't cause lactose intolerance because it has lactase in it which helps your body digest lactose. Pasteurized milk destroys the lactase and the probiotics and the enzymes making it unhealthy garbage.
Kind of like when my perfectly healthy son's pediatrician told me he should get experimental gene therapy and handed me a brochure from a company that makes big dairy look like a popsicle stand.
Where I live the price of milk has stayed the same throuought the whole egg profiteering situation we are in right now. Hopefully the price of milk stays where it is.
People also forget that there's tons of glyphosate dumped on the fields which ends up in our food. Corn is in most things, and it's been sprayed with a known carcinogen
A lot of the anti-milk science has been funded and promoted by Monsanto. They would love it if we replaced our milk consumption with GMO soy milk. One of the earliest and most widely cited early studies “against” milk from the late 1990’s compared soy milk and dairy milk consumption. The conclusion of the study was that soy milk drinkers were healthier. It had significant study design flaws, very short follow up, and the conclusions were overstated. But shortly thereafter in the early 2000’s the Soy Milk industry saw massive increase in sales.
@@jmelande4937if you think milk is healthy you are mistaken. Your not even suppose to consume large amounts of it. My mom has a bone mutation from too much dairy and every single of my family members that drinks milk everyday gets back pain when milk is suppose to build strong bones. I guess small or occasional dairy is fine. I have been vegan for years without drinking milk and dairy. Not only are all nutrition requirements met but I look a decade younger too.
@@3arthandsky I never extolled the benefits of milk. I’m just saying that the research that disparages it isn’t any better than the research that promotes it.
Man, this is shocking to see... actually we Indians consume a lot of dairy in day-to-day life. Even I was drinking about half a liter of milk daily. thankyou for a such thoughtful and informative video
A lot of what people think is lactose intolerance in the west is just a milk protein allergy. The kinds of dairy cows we use in the west mostly come from northern Europe, like Holsteins and Jerseys, and produce milk with A1 protein. The milk cows in India and the surrounding country are breeds that produce milk with the A2 protein. So when people that are used to drinking cows milk in other parts of the world come to the West and drink our milk, many end up sick because the milk really is different, and that has created a myth that people around the world don't drink cows milk except in the west. We now have farms in the US that are producing milk with A2 protein cows so we have more variety.
@@lethargicwizardLactose Intolerance is a fascinating concept here. I have never seen a single lactose intolerant guy in my 19 years in India, it just feels like a far off West thing and often the subject of 'white people=weak' jokes. Given how many delicacies here are milk-based, it's unimaginable to me how some people can have problems drinking milk. Also btw A2 milk doesn't contain a different kind of protein, it's just a general absence of the A1 protein. Most local breeds β-casein proteins in their milk which even tho isn't a direct cause for lactose intolerance, is certainly a factor contributing to it. Lactose Intolerance technically has nothing to do with caseins, it's just the inability to digest lactose.
Thanks for shining a light onto the milk industry and how it grew from local, small farmers into such an enormous industry today. Covering the aspect of how the advertising power of a lobby group can have such profound influence on the nutrition behavior and health beliefs of an entire population is really enlightening. I think this allows for us to take more informed decisions when buying stuff, and trough this steer companies in a better direction. One aspect that that was missing for me was the ethical aspect of the dairy industry and the massive suffering it inflicts. And this for products we do not even need for a healthy diet. This could be a great topic for a further video, if you are interested in making more food related videos. For everybody else interested, I can recommend the documentary "Dominion" (which you can find for free on YT as far as I know) to enable you to take more informed decisions when grocery shopping. It helped me a great lot in better knowing what kind of industry I supported through my purchases.
@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 and yet it’s vitally important. It also is having drastic and deleterious health effects on BIPOC and/or low income communities that live near these “farms” (more like factories). It’s brutal in more ways than one.
@@mollyk3768 The "drastic and deleterious" health effects you're talking about is lactose intolerance. As told in the video, humans have adapted to digest milk and people of color are more likely to show symptoms of lactose intolerance. That doesn't actually mean milk is bad, but that some people just shouldn't drink it. The health risks of living near a farm really aren't as bad as you're making out to be. The biggest risk of living near a farm is pesticides. But that's out of the question for organic farms. There are the diseases that animals could carry, but that's when you're in direct contact with them. Then there is dust that can get in the air, which could increase risk for respiratory diseases, but is still not as bad as living in most cities. Just look at an air quality map, you can directly see how much worse any city compared to the rural farms. Farmers themselves generally have healthier lifestyles and a stronger immunity. Yes, there are risks, but you're overly exaggerating.
@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 intolerence and a allergy are different if you are intolerant you may get bad stomach but in a allergy even smelling milk can cause immuno response
As someone who never really drank cow’s milk, I remember when I found out about all the stuff that goes on in relation to the North American dairy market, and I’m just glad you’re sharing things like this with the rest of the world. Thank you for doing informative journalism correctly.
Coming from EU (France precisely) and it feels so weird watching this video since we didn't really had that era here. As you even mentioned in this video, France made and is still making at this day, some very cool cheeses and dairy products, and ofc we don't have the same government sooo nobody was pushing the parents, to force-feed their children with a gallon of milk every day 😂 in fact, in France we even say that it is bad to drink too much milk. Things like, "more than 2 glasses per day raise cardiac problems and clogs your arteries" etc... (because milk indeed contains a lot of fats) but yeah feels funny for me, just watching this video about something we never witnessed here in Europe, during the entire video I was like "What? Whaaaat? Lol what kind of bullshit those Americans were saying during the 50's 😂" other than that, great content as usual! Keep it up my guy, aaand hope to meet you in France where I would let you taste some of our best cheeses such as a good homemade Camembert, Brie a la Truffe, some Saint-Félicien, aaand ofc my favorite (which is actually Italian but we master it in France too) : The Pecorino A La Truffe Noire 😮😋
Love these deep dives--Great job. As someone with a family history of cancer I just wish you added how doctors are suing the FDA as they don't require cheese to list the high concentrations of estrogen it contains and which increases hormonal cancer rates.
@@elektrosvijet Antibiotics cause the animals to become fat and produce more milk, when the milkfat is used to make the cheese, the antibiotics that are processed in the animal's body as estrogenated compounds are excreted in the milk.
A couple of years ago I became obsessed with learning to make the perfect pizza. I experimented with all kinds of different crust recipes, sauces, and of course different toppings. I've ended up liking fresh Italian mozzarella the most - I've found that you don't need much of it; pizza is better when it's not drowning in cheap cheese.
When I first learned of the link between big dairy and fast food my biggest surprise was how Burger King has gotten away all these years never putting cheese on the Whopper
I’m Asian and in our culture, we don’t have milk on our diet. I’m just 5’3” / 160cm. I wished our government have had much marketing to force us to drink milk when I was a kid. On the other hand, I have nieces taller than me and the difference - they had milk introduced on their diet.
How this guy manages to pull facts out of his ass is amazing 😍 . Anyone who thinks that drinking milk is useless is absolute clown and should be outcasted . Johnny is just running leftist propoganda.
I'm convinced this root of a bunch of this country's problems is LIES. I was a teen during that Got Milk campaign. All the dairy companies banning together for one ad campaign made me suspicious. I stopped drinking for the most part after that, though I relapsed during pregnancy.
@@zazzy2012 Milkshake dates milk in Archie comics. Basically going on a date to drink a glass of milk. I was shocked when I first visited a diner in the US and I was able to order a milkshake with my breakfast meal.
I always thought it was weird how milk was considered a food group with things like fruits and vegetables, and I remember my health teacher in jr. high showing us pictures of families from different cultures with the food they ate laid out in front of them and pointing out how they were missing dairy products when they ate healthier food than what the american was eating.
That's not why they don't consume milk. In most areas of the world without European ancestry people can't digest lactose, therefore they don't drink milk.
Love the video! You should do a lot more videos on 90s marketing to kids. There were so many crap foods that were thrown in our face pumped full of dyes and chemicals. Best part, it was advertised as "nutritious".
I can definitely see Johnny doing exactly that. Goodness knows us 90's kids now in our late 30's-40's would "eat it up", pun intended. It's fun to look back and realize we were practiced upon and marketing victims of the corporations of the time, and yet simultaneously feel quaint nostalgia and a sense that the world of our childhoods was safer than the world is now. It is a fact, or a fallacy of perspective?
I wonder which food that we mass consume today also fall victim to this. I feel like the whole vitamin industry might fall into the same category today bc apparently there is no official research that shows supplements actually boosts health yet so many Americans take it. Especially those collagen / “superfood” powders
As someone who currently is studying food science… i am so happy to watch this video, and i think recognizing and being aware of food politics should be our focus in order to make this world more sustainable.
politics? sustainable? They are way ahead of you. The opposition is always controlled opposition. America is a fascist country. Fascism = corporatism + government. Fascist symbols are *in many, many federal buildings.* Hiding in plain site...
@@NaveenKumar-sf7yj All major cash crops, meaning food that can be produced easily using industrial techniques. The government of Mexico is for example advertising avocados in my city (Montréal, Canada). A few weeks ago I noticed there are such "Mexican avocado" posters in every metro stations in the city When something is called a "super food" or that you "must" consume it to be healthy, it's a red flag that someone is trying to sell you more of it. In reality, a good diet simply needs to be diverse enough to provide you all the nutrients you need. There is no food that you "must" consume to achieve this
@Ed Nigma The lie is in the fact that some industries try to make you think that you must eat something to be healthy, while in reality it isn't true. As long as your diet is complete and diverse, then you're fine. The best diet should be the one that can be produced in the area where you live, or at least as much as possible. For example, this means that for me who lives in the north, eating some avocadoes from Mexico all the time would be a stupid decision. The fact that Mexico wants its avocadoes to become popular here is to simply be able to sell always more of them at a price always higher to make more profits, while in reality there is nothing in an avocado that makes it a "super food" that everyone "must" eat to be healthy. It's the same about milk. It's a good source of nutrients, but you don't have to drink milk to be healthy if you have access to other sources of food which are as nutritious.
But what's also great is that, he framed it in a way that people can watch this video, and think that global warming is entirely fake and funded by the leftist government. Or that the world is actually flat... Great video!
I am a victim of abuse and have eaten very little over the years. In the 6 months since I escaped, milk has saved my life and made me feel and look a lot better. I hadn't drink. Milk in almost a decade
We love your videos no matter what they are about! This one made me especially happy to see 🙋🏻♀Well done telling this story that everyone should hear 🙌
He makes great videos, but I think he overplayed the conspiracy doom and gloom on this one. Milk is actually really good for you (if you can drink it) because it has every nutrient your body needs to survive. That's why mammals drink milk exclusively after they are born. It's a great, natural nutrition supplement, especially for kids who are still growing.
@@GeoffCostanza If milk is so good for you, why is there no animal that relies on solely drinking milk? Why go through the fuss of eating/drinking anything other than milk? Why has evolution forced us to develop an intolerance to it in the first place? Oh yeah, because it DOESN'T contain everything the human body needs. Ever heard of fiber? Vitamin C? Why does the dairy industry need to ADD vitamins to the milk if it's so "perfect"? They add both Vitamin A and D. Oh, and iron, you know the thing we use to make blood cells? Only found in very small doses. Anemia isn't fun, just saying. Please stop believing the lie that milk contains "every nutrient the body needs to survive". Sure, have your milk, but don't spread misinformation.
I don’t think he overplayed doom and gloom. The lobbying in this industry has had a measurable impact. The fake science payed for by companies to sell their products isn’t doom and gloom. 😂
Milk isnt vital for strong bones but milk has definitely helped me survive, I was born severely underweight and goat milk helped me get stronger. Milk is definitely not a poison, in fact if you dont have lactose intolerance its a great way to give your body many essential nutrients.
Ohhh this makes so much sense of Canada's dairy supply management program! In the 1970s the government introduced a quota system for dairy farmers, to prevent over and undersupply of dairy products. It also heavily restricted imports of foreign cheese products. . . because I guess the US was trying to dump their extra cheese into the Canadian market, and undercutting the prices for Canadian cheese. We still have the quota system today, and I always thought it was a bit weird. But it makes so much sense now that I know what was happening south of the border in the 70s!
Exactly what I was thinking too. But likely also the reason the the US has also been working on (and has for Canada) forcing dairy exports into new trade agreements, which is a new way to get rid of more excess milk!
The system of quotas in Canada also generates surpluses. When a farmer produces more milk than his quota allows, then this milk is either giving for free in schools or dumped to the garbage (I hope they at least use it as fertilizer and not just dump it in the sewers)
Wow, I drank a quart of milk every day when I was pregnant. We had the MIC program and the WIC program. We got gallons of milk in this government program along with eggs and cheese. This was in the 1980's.. My youngest son was still born with a bone condition called Rickets. It was so much milk that I froze some and share some with my neighbors so it wouldn't spoil. They did have dry beans and a variety of hot cereals and sugary cereals to choose from, so we did get to use a lot of the milk. My daughters did gain weight but I kept them at the park to run and jump outside, that helped. Thanks for digging deep with your research good information. An educated consumer is the best customer.
My wife is lactose intolerant and some of my kids are. I checked out some maps on this and now understand that she came from an area that has a much larger % of the population that is lactose intolerant than from where my ancestors are from. I learned something. Good video. We buy lactose free milk. It seemed weird to me that they had problems drinking milk and I didn't understand why. I just assumed everyone could drink milk.
I grew up drinking raw milk in Mexico, when I came to the US I stopped drinking it because I didn't like the milk here. I discovered that I still love raw grass fed milk, I hate the "milk" they sell here. Of course in most states it's illegal for people to sell me raw grass fed milk, so I had to become part of a private club in order to buy raw grass fed milk from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania and pay a lot of money to get it sent to my house. And the government raided them trying to stop them. The dairy industry doesn't want competition from real milk.
I too belong to that "subversive"' group and drink only raw milk It's much healthier than pasteurized milk, and the reason behind the pasteurization process is a lie of it's own. I would encourage Mr. Harris to research raw milk OUTSIDE of any government funded entities then report back to us his findings.
Laws requiring pasteurization are dumb af. When it was invented it was for cows drinking water from the gutters of Paris, a modern dairy farm with well looked after cows doesn't need pasteurization most of the time
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@@dreamland3r no way bro you were actually first. this is the most significatn achievement of your life oh my adays
Isn't the Cake a lie too?
i dont really get this video, here in Caucasian mountains, Milk and dairy product is literally what people who live in villages drink al lthe time, not because of "unsold stockpiles" but because it considered as a healthy thing and is part of cultural cousine..
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The idea that fully grown adult humans need to be breast fed by cows was always weird to me.
It's yummy tho
As a lactose intolerant person who is bulking . I now see this milk lie very clearly 😂
You’re not alone
Milk is the shit and what weirdo drinks milk and thinks that your being breast fed? Cows don't even have breasts. Udder fed maybe lmao. Yall mad goofy.
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If milk is a lie then why did my dad go to get it?
that was the point my friend
@@johnnydoe2672 Woah.
Can someone explain this meme 🤔🤔
That was the lie.
My dad went to get cigarettes.
People easily accept that the government lied in the past but don't think it does it now. I always ask "when did the officials stop lying?"
Simple answer, never, too much vested interest in the money they make by doing it!
Careful now, you don’t wanna be labelled a conspiracy theorist. But honestly tho, my personal experience is that people don’t necessarily believe the government and politicians to be honest, they’re just apathetic towards it.
@@Jonas-Seiler I personaly believ they are honest unless they actively have a reason not to be
@@algotkristoffersson15 I fully agree with that... with the addendum of they ALWAYS have a reason not to be.
@@Jonas-Seiler wish it were simple apathy, I experienced a lot of reasonable family and friends become unpaid salesmen for big pharma a couple years ago. biologically, we are the same as nazis and every other social adventure gone wrong. wish it weren't so, but corporations know how to flip a switch and turn most of us into manchurian candidates. me, you, and others like us who "are able to see beyond the shadows and lies" of our culture will unfortunately be pit against armies of manchurian candidates.
Brother, you have mastered this video essay thing. Your vids are very dense with knowledge and the way you present tells a linear story that keeps us interested and invested. Great work🎉❤
When I was homeless and strung out on drugs I think milk was the only thing that kept me alive. Lol. Whole milk. Red cap. I drank it and not much else and survived.. so therefore I am greatful to milk. I don't drink it much anymore, but I'll never forget what it has done for me. ❤️
thanks for sharing and I think you make a good point, thanks, glad you are in a different place
after all, the govt. was not very bad as johnny describes, it does saves lives!
Milk is also the reason why the Netherlands came from being one of the shortest country in Europe to becoming the tall monsters that they are now. Dont think to much of Johnny Harris. He is a WEF stooge, CIA asset.
@@hyperphenomenal4360 the government doesn’t assist the homeless and puts millions in food insecurity, and you’re turning this sad story into the government deserving props?
This is r/orphancrushingmachine material
there is no problem with it if you can digest it and you do not drink too much
We literally studied the "Got Milk" marking campaign in one of my Uni marketing classes in the past week and I was like I wish there was someone who's videos I like watching makes something related to milk and then bingo this man comes in clutch!!
Had exactly same experience last Monday, but with European eunion marketing efforts to promote milk in 2010'
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Milk is great man, it's just that unfortunately...like most things,it's uses and greatness are exaggerated to make certain people money
Uni? And who's instead of whose? Wow.
As someone with liver and kidney problems? Milk is just amazing and there is literally nearly nothing oz for oz as cheap and jam packed with both macro and micronutrients. You have to go into dietary or nutritional drinks to get that and while I love Nova Source? It has too many vitamins and minerals and I have to be careful not to get too much of any as my body cannot clear them. Phosphorous being the biggest one I struggle with.
I need to gain weight. A glass of full milk has lipids, carbs, and complete protein. I've tried the other replacements and they just don't compare. Especially when I buy Lacktaid Protein or Fairlife. Sure it is saturated fat but ATM I need any fat in order to gain weight for a transplant.
Chocolate Milk is also the nectar of the gods!
Anyway like all super foods and such it isn't a pancea. Moderation is also key.
PS: One reason why Milk is important for me is because of the low fluid restrictions. I can only have 24oz of liquid per day and that includes water in food. So it doesn't make sense for me to drink something like clean ice water or even juice... If I put something in my body? Ideally it should have both macro and micronutrients. To me this is the hardest thing about dying is the fact I don't produce urine. No coffee, tea, juice, soup... I am forever thirsty and if I ever get a transplant the first thing I'm doing is chugging a huge glass of ice cold chocolate milk. Making a slushi and drinking it till I puke or can't handle the brain freeze.
Awesome work, as always. Grew up on a dairy farm, in the 70’s. Didn’t overdo it at our house, loved it raw. I have one daughter who is lactose intolerant, kind of ironic. Keep doing what you’re doing, love it all.
Cannot thank you enough for taking the time to make such a high quality video on this subject!
In my childhood I had gas so bad I thought I would explode. I was in tears and my mom consulted with experts and doctors and they said I was swallowing air when I was eating and they taught me how to blow air out when taking a spoon full of food. It turns out, it was just milk. I ate cereal and milk daily, massive amounts.
Me too!
same here!i like milk too much to stop consuming it, most of time nothing.
Oh boy if i take ice cream, then im a gas station in toilet seat.
LoL farts away my friend
I go through half a gallon in a week. Too much milk makes me sick too.
By age 10 a bowl of cereal would have me doubled over
Omg, this finally explains it. When I was growing up as a kid I was always wondering “why in Hollywood movies and shows Americans drink milk all the time?”. In shops you can buy a GALLON of milk and that’s SHITLOAS of milk. Our packaging in Eastern Europe goes up to 2L which is almost half a gallon.
I don't know how it is in Europe or other parts of the world, but my experience with South America, is that no body, not even children drinks pure milk, actually the idea is kind of disgusting actually, milk is a ingredient and so drinking pure milk would be like eating pure wheat flower.
My hunch is that drinking pure milk was a social engineering thing and lets say in the XIX century and back not even Americans did it.
PS: I almost forgot: the absolute nauseating thing about people drinking pure milk in America movies for people in South America that I've spoken is eating it with food that you would eat drinking a coke, juice, wine, whatever but not freaking milk! That is gross!
Indian moms also act like milk is the holy grail despite a significant portion of India being lactose intolerant. I’d love to see how this false narrative about milk trickled down to other countries. but drinking plain milk by itself is still weird in india - we have so many malt powder mixes to make it taste better & so these malt companies are advertised more than the milk itself. My biggest culture shock when I moved to America was finding out that Americans drink plain raw milk, especially along with a meal
USDA+Dairy lobby = CDC+Pharma lobby ? Na not possible, right ?🧐
@@freedom_aint_freeno actually. Millions of people of not billions grew up with milk in Europe far before advertisement existed. Most European countries are aparted by lactose tolerant people. You can also build up those enzymes by consuming small quantities per day but w/e I responded too much in this sections
Amīši vienmēr tādi jocīgi ir bijuši.
It really was insane how hard schools pushed students to drink milk.
A couple years ago, during the peak of the pandemic, I chose to go back to school in person.
I should mention this was an optional choice, and most kids chose to stay virtual. Yet, it seemed like the school didn’t adjust the the amount of milk they were ordering.
Grabbing a milk box became mandatory at lunchtime, I tried every day to refuse it, knowing I wouldn’t drink it and that it would be wasted.
One day the lunch lady just straight up said “Look I know your lactose intolerant, just take the milk and throw it in the trash.”
(I’m not even lactose intolerant but I guess she assumed I was since I kept trying to refuse the milk, I just think it’s crazy that the school was encouraging me to waste it.)
Lol your story’s wack
Their budget for the next year probably depended on how many boxes of milk they could push
@@rodschmidt8952 “Dang these kids at that school are running through milk like crack Addicts. Give that school more money!”
The lady is Not a school
As a vegan the mandatory milk would be my worst nightmare lol
Just a thought... getting a child to drink a glass of milk to get 300mg of calcium is way easier than trying to get them to eat a 100g of almonds. I can get calcium from cabbage if I wanted to, but I'd have to eat a shitload of it to get even nearly the same amount (oxylates in cabbage bond with calcium, thus reducing the amount available for absorbtion)
So yes, you can get calcium from other sources but do remember that it's the ease of ingestion as well as nutrient density that also play a major factor.
And pretty high vitamin d
This. I was a picky eater as a child, but I loved milk. So all my parents had to do to make sure I got all the nutrients I needed, was put milk on the table and serve up some potatoes - all bases covered, in the simplest way possible. Almonds, lmao. I'm sure there are kids out there who love them, but I couldn't get my own kid to eat one even if it's in an ice cream chocolate bar (real life example btw, he literally stopped eating the ice cream and said I could have it).
🐑 Baaaaaa....
Most plant milks are fortified with calcium. Soy milk is high in protein, too, and much, much better for the environment, and 100% better for the animals.
yeah, he didnt use very good examples. canned fish with bones is really the only other natural food that contains excellent amounts of calcium. canned sardines provide 540mg per 100g for 126calories, and skim milk contains 307mg per cup for 92 calories.
kale and tofu are other good sources but not as good as milk or fish. kale provides 254mg per 100g for 35 calories (with next to no oxalates), and tofu 176mg for 137calories. i dont think almonds are very good because they contain a lot of fat for the amount of calcium they provide (269mg per 100g for 579calories)
During lunch as a kid I always felt sick after eating. Turns out it was the milk that was given out as the drink. Juice was also available but that always went first. Later I found out I was very lactose intolerant. I feel much better today on a day to day basis now that I avoid all things dairy.
I was in the same boat!! I was always bloated and gassy. This was everyday, because they give you milk (to this day) for every meal in school!!! I didn't realize until after I graduated high school that I was lactose intolerant 🙃..
easy, drink a small cup everyday like 10-20ml to coffee/chocolate, now i can tolerance to milk/lactose, same to sea food, teach your body to tolerance not to avoid all of it
Be careful with juice too given at school. Lots of sugar.
You just weak.
milk is only for babies until they start growing theeth
Great video as always! I'm from the Netherlands the country of cheese/milk. In the 90s our schools had some sort of subscriptions that in our lunchbreak (we bring our own food) everyone at school gets milk. I always found this super odd.
That's explain why nearly all Dutch are so tall.
Same here, wanna say MUUUH🐄
This is still a thing in Norway
@@crusader8331 Didn't like milk and cheese as a child, only some drinking yoghurt, but nevertheless got 1.90m.
@elfrjz I said in captions that we have to bring our own food. We don't have canteens.
The worst thing about modern "American" (I'm Australian and we have much the same problem) milk was watching you pour the milk from the carton and seeing how thin watery and see through it is. proper milk isn't like that, but what they put in the bottle has already had most of the good stuff stripped out for cream butter and cheese production. Just like Kraft cheese is a pale imitation of proper real cheese.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
Not true, milk is standardised so that the fat and protein components are the same for a consistent product. Cows produce milk with different chemical compositions depending on the time of the year and the quality of the feed. Unless you want your brand of milk to taste different throughout the year as the season changes.
@@lukesantamaria94 your point is valid about fat content. However some milk will have more solids than others, depending mostly on the breed but also the diet. Skim milk from a Jersey cow will be less watery than whole milk from a Holstein.
Excellent doco, Johnny! Thank you for so much good research. And thanks to your patrons that allow you to do this awesome work!
I grew up in Finland in early 2000's and the biggest dairy producer of the country was advertising drinking milk with posters in school cafeterias. And in primary school if you didn't drink milk during school lunch, teachers would look you badly and ask why.
I went to American middle school in 2013 & we also had milk posters in our cafeteria & the lunch lady would make sure we had either a serving of vegetable or milk on our plates
same here, sama tässä 03v syntynyt ja maito joka päivä lol
Do you have any data what happens if they don't?
@@mistiebreeze3469 they have to handstand on Mount Everest
I thought you were drinking kalja beer in Finland's school cafeterias. You, sir, just shattered my dreams.
One of the unfortunate truths about being a biologist that I had to learn in my undergraduate studies was where the money comes from to actually fund any proposed research. So very much of it is from groups with lots of money and an agenda and when you pitch your research idea, you have to basically sell your research potential as a product: either as a way to make of save money. The other options are government funding which is a nightmare of red tape and can completely be just as biased or charities/special interest groups like WWF (panda not smackdown) who might have much more altruistic intensions but are equally as biased. So you have to juggle skewing your pitch to be as attractive as possible and then immediately turn around and be as unbiased and analytical as possible so you can practice good science (as you always should) and not get flagged during peer review. All this while under the realization that it's a "publish or perish" job market and if you keep getting "boring" results your career will go nowhere. I'm not saying that biologists who run the studies like the "bigger rats on milk" one in the video are unscrupulous just that there is this massive "sword of Damocles" hanging over all of our heads to produce results that will let us keep doing research. This isn't to say that we are all soulless, greedy puppets who produce false narratives for our benefactors; quite the opposite. Most of the biologists I know and have worked with are people with only the best intensions who pursue knowledge for it's own sake with an almost childlike desire to simply better understand the nature of living things and how they function for the betterment of everything and everyone but are forced to navigate the maze of biased capitalism and politics. An example I like to use is from a presentation I saw from a post-grad while I was doing my undergrad. It was basically "what happens to spiders in winter" it was basic and should be easy to find out, but the honest answer is that we have no evidence based idea what happens to them. I asked afterwards why we don't know and the simple answer was because there is profit in knowing: they aren't pests, we can't make new products or medicine from knowing, and they aren't big cuddly adorable mammals with a million people ready to protest for them. Simply put- we want to know but no one will give us the money.
All I'm reading here is "I don't have the spare time to research milk or what spiders do in winter" and both things are so prosaic and accessible that I wouldn't believe anyone's excuses why they don't know or aren't pursuing the questions if they also purport to be interested. I think those are interesting things to research and everyone can spend free time to investigate them. I have a feeling once you do the research and publish you might start attracting the corporate paymasters for some expository research in the fields of spiders and milk and then get that fat moolah you want so much; literally no amount of money obliges you to lie or be biased about anything. You might face consequences of the money faucet being turned off but isn't the world full of things to research? Like peanut butter. When was the last time someone did some great research into peanut butter. Peanut butter is a billion dollar industry. When Peanut Butter Bad from J. Harris productions?
Would you recommend pursuing a career in biology?
Damn. Now I really want to know what happens to spiders in winter!
I bet there are lots of politicians who would argue along the same lines "I want to help change the world for the better, but all the money and influence that it buys to create change, comes from lobbyist".....
A sellout is still a sellout
@@Elite244 Actual research that can be published isn't generally cheap to do, even for small prospective studies just to see if a topic has further research potential. It's not really an out-of-pocket thing in most cases. (Ironically, psych studies are actually some of the cheapest.) Also, as Lillith mentions, publishing is its own problem- because there aren't people with infinite free time to do peer review (which is generally an unpaid task), there is a limit to how many articles can and will be published in peer-reviewed publications. The bias there is towards papers that demonstrate some strong outcome- while there is great scientific value in studies whose conclusion is "We didn't find any statistically significant results", unless it is about something controversial, it will be hard to get published, at which time you have wasted the time and resources you used for the study, while some other researcher did one of the milk-fed rat studies, got a publication credit, and is now able to maybe get some funding for the research they want to do that doesn't involve milk, in addition to having a better shot at promotion and/or tenure.
If you do the spider study and all you can figure out is "they aren't in spots A, B, or C during the winter", that is great information, but it's not going to go anywhere but your own filing cabinet. A close friend of mine did a study funded by a local news station. He was testing the pushbars on grocery carts to see how germy they were. Turns out, the environment around here is so dry that it makes hard surfaces like that very inhospitable, and unless there was so much dampness that it would be obvious on the handles, germs lasted about two minutes. Unsurprisingly, that didn't make the news. They were looking for a shock study, and the fact that people could be calm about that particular hazard wasn't what they had use for.
There is a severe problem with inconclusive studies or ones that don't produce "interesting" or desired results being trashed, and all the time and resources the researchers put into it are just gone. Calling them lazy for wanting to avoid the career effects of repeatedly doing studies that don't get published just seems shallow to me.
Growing up milking cows in rural Wisconsin, I'm glad someone as high profile as you is shining some light on the absolute craziness of the dairy market. It's like no other market out there (besides maybe natural makeup syrup but they're tiny). Most Americans don't ever think about this stuff, and why would they? They just go grocery shopping like they were taught. So thank you very much 🤘
If anyone wants an alternative, there are tens of different types of plant milk and hundreds of brands. Most people either like oat milk soy milk or almond milk. Oat milk definitly is the most environmental friendly and imo the tastiest. Dont be disappointed if you dont like one, some other brand might be just yours!
@@maxheim3802 most of these plant-based milks are bad for you Oat milk is also bad for you. And soy milk literally makes you a pussy mentally.
I'm not knocking on you I'm just stating facts. But everybody's entitled to do what they want it's your body.
But there's a reason they came up with the term soy boy.
Did you mean to say maplesyrup?
@@maxheim3802 Oat and Soy 'milk' are not milk and should not be legally allowed to be called as such. Why does the FDA allow this but requires Velveeta to be a 'Cheese-like Product'
Beef industry is just as bad...
I think context is crucial. Mr Harris makes some great points here but it’s worth thinking about what you’re drinking instead. Realistically its the 2nd healthiest drink after water - fruit juice and smoothies are sooo full of sugar (eating fruit let’s you take the sugar in slowly and chewing sets of a whole load of processes that prepare your body for what’s coming), refined sugar is bad and any sweetener (even ‘natural’ sweeteners) are ultra-processed, and our bodies aren’t at all adapted to deal with something that tastes like sugar (which upon tasting may for example cause the body to raise insulin levels) but actually isn’t. Best drink water, 2nd best milk, then comes everything else
3rd best kool aid
How can it be the best thing when a lot of people can't digest it and get side effects?
@@TheMaxikwell, minus the weak ones.
😉 jk
I agree and stated in another comment that I was unbelievably active as a child. I drank drank an insane amount of milk BUT other than water what would have been better that was readily available when I was a kid? Coke? Sport drinks? I drank lots of Gatorade to when it exploded on the scene.
Likely more genes than anything but I was healthier and in better shape than anyone at my high school or college.
Don’t regret it.
😁
@@TheMaxik Just because some people are allergic to peanuts, doesn't mean peanuts aren't healthy.
I am lactose intolerant, pasteurization also removes the digestive enzymes within the milk itself and when I was able to get a hold of unpasteurized milk for a while. I never had lactose issues with unpasteurized milk. Then when I had to return to pasteurized, the lactose issues came right back 😢.
you have pasteurized lactose free milk buddy.
@@bodigames also known as white water
@@wezerd yea I love adding water to my coffee in the morning
Good to see someone in these comments who knows what they are talking about 👍
Intolerance to lactose is due to pasteurisation, it kills the beneficial bacteria that facilitate the production of the lactase enzyme in the small intestine. Many indigenous cultures still consume animal milks without issue. I used to be severely “lactose intolerant” until I tried raw milk. We are mammals, we can consume another mammals milk and utilise the highly bioavailable nutrients within it at any stage of life. Common sense 👍
@@bodigamesNo, he has raw milk , buddy.
What REALLY pissed me off was that all the way until High School graduation, they gave us milk for free but a water bottle was $1!!Milk never quenched my thirst. Water always does even to this day.
I’m just here to say I love milk
You didn't have drinking fountains in your school? That was the only free drink I got.
@@GeoffCostanza I did but the water was never cold.
@@billfordbreezy Not with with some pizza it’s not.
We had to pay for our lunch unless we got milk as well.. 16oz water bottle cost $2, 6oz apple juice cost $1.50, and a lunch without milk cost $3. I hated it so much
My friend is a food scientist who works for DMI, and was sent to Taco Bell for 10 years, she's just finished a 4 year stint at Kroeger - and her WHOLE JOB is getting more cheese into food. She is responsible for the taco bell products you love guys, a New Zealander employed by USDA and sent into places to shill for cheese. The irony is she is lactose intolerant!!!!
that's not ironic. Lactose intolerant people can eat some kinds of cheese, because the process removes lactose.
@@GameFuMaster”virtually lactose free” isn’t 100% lactose free. There are proteins in dairy that people struggle with as well like myself. I blowup like a blowfish when I eat dairy even goat milk has lactose. There’s more to this than “lactose intolerance” that people struggle with.
@@HeatherFarris sounds more like an allergy than lactose intolerance.
@@GameFuMaster I think intolerance in vastly understudied though in general.
@@GameFuMaster The irony is that a person who is lactose intolerant has a job to promote products that generally have lactose in them - to the extent that the product and lactose are all but synonymous. It'd be like someone allergic to caffeine being a coffee promoter. The fact that decaf coffee can exist does not reduce in any way the irony of that situation.
Man your videos are so engaging and interesting! I can’t stop watching them
I absolutely LOVE it when you site your sources. The nerd in me is so happy when I see that. You should put it on all of your videos please!!! All of them. Even the ones you’ve already posted. I want to learn more and know more about where you got this information and why you think this way.❤❤❤ I love your content. Keep up the excellent work.
Google is a great search tool for your curiosity instead of demanding others to do your work.
find your own sources
For sure!
@@twohandsandaradioyes, because the journalist reporting on misinformation is not supposed to have to cite where they got their information. Genius, I'm sure this will never be a problem in the future.
Growing up my mother had to actually stop giving me milk within weeks of being born because they found out I was born with a milk allergy AND intolerance of it entirely. So.. Imagine growing up around all this, and having teachers trying to force me to a point my parents had to get a doctors note to say 'Hey, they have an actual allergy, DONT GIVE THEM DAIRY AT ALL'
"they"?
I am vegan and can relate. Isn't it disappointing when you want to buy a product, but when you look at the ingredients they include dairy for no apparent reason?
@@dannyarcher6370 yep, the use of singular they has been in use for ages
@@dannyarcher6370 just read a book or something. english isn't that hard.
This has been me my whole life but my parents wrote me off as “faking it”
Surprised to learn about this. Growing up in the southern part of India, unsweetened (very slightly sour) Yogurt mixed with rice is a finishing item for us in every meal since a long time. There are poems which describe the love of curd (Yogurt is more in use in America) mixed with rice from as old as 11th Century CE. In fact, I only started hearing about lactose intolerance after coming onto the internet and meeting people from other parts of the world.
yes in india we have been using milk for many centuries
so it's weird , is milk good or not? ig it's different for Indians genetically
Milk is really good for you because it provides every nutrient your body needs. That's why mammals only drink milk for the first months of their lives, when they are the most vulnerable. He didn't do a good job of explaining the cultural or biological reasons why people drink milk. There are valid, non-conspiratorial reasons to consume dairy products, that Johnny glossed over.
@@GeoffCostanza there is literally no reason to drink milk
@@GeoffCostanza I don't like milk anyway.
@@loading...4038 No reason to eat fries either. You gonna ban fries?
This is so well done- and killing me all at once😂
I never expected "government cheeses" to be considered a music genre but you know I want more of it.
That's the difference between government cheese and government cheese music. The latter, you actually want more of.
It ain't easy being cheesy- government
It’s just rap music complaining about poverty.
Cheese means money, not literal cheese lol
@@willtheprodigy3819 bro what?
Up to age 30 I thought it normal to have a sort of rope of mucus in the back of my throat most of the time. Then a friend told me much of what is in this video. So I stopped consuming milk except for cooking. Goodbye mucus. I was discussing this with a friend who's an opera performer and she said, "OMG, you didn't know that? It's the first thing they tell you in voice training. No milk, no smoking." Live and learn.
does this only apply to dairy milk? or plant milk the same?
@@crwhhx dairy. dont do plant milk,
@@pelicanus4154 thanks, guess i"ll give plant a try to see if it is better
What about yogurt? :(
@@GameTrailersPlus It kinda gums up the pipes as well but I love tzatziki sauce so I indulge occasionally....
I'm Indian and we pretty much have a Milk fad much similar to that in America and most other Northern European states. Much similar to your mom my mom too kept insinuating I drink milk despite the fact that I was well past the required age to do so. I tried explaining to her that it never really had all the benefits most people think it does, but she kept reprimanding me.
First mistake was trying to be logical and talk back to mom. Lol
And People in India got their milk digesting genes from the same place Europeans did! We even have shared linguistic heritage from our common ancestors.
@@Bacopa68 people from the pontic-Caspian steppe.
Although the Yamnaya expansion and common ancestry to modern day Indians and Europeans are just some sort of shared ancestry
Like in Europeans the genetic composition is EEF, (Eearly European farmers) WHG(West Hunter-Gatherer) and Steppe-like ancestry (Yamnaya) and in Indians Although they have ancestry from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe like modern Europeans, the rest of theirs genetic background is different.
Don't people from India see cows as almost family? I'd imagine drinking cow milk is kinda a grey area right?
Milk has a lot of protein and protein consumption is actually correlated with height. That also explains why states like Punjab and Haryana where people drink significantly more milk, have the tallest people in India.
I am immensely in love with this guy storytelling and well-investigated information. Thank you so muchhhhhhhhhh
I'm from Italy and when I moved to the UK I was quite shocked but the amount of milk people drink or have it as an ingredient in so many things, people drinking tea with milk/lattes/cappuccinos at any time during the day, a culture shock!!
And you’re from the country of Alfredo and Parmesan 😭
ok
yes, i was surprised when i heard that italians don't have cappuccinos after 11am...
ah zi, ma se noi italiani ad ogni colazione ci facciamo latte e caffè, che shock culturale ;)
Ok, S M, stop it with your Parmigiano and Pecorino cheese which seem to appear on a lot of your dishes. Don't forget to stop eating cannoli also.
As a Milk drinking adult Swedish man. It is kind of weird when you found out growing up everyone else doesnt really consume dairy product the way we do. We have rows upon rows in of different dairy products in Scandinavia. Stuff you never even heard of ;) Ever heard of Norwegian Röme? Its the bastard child of Cream, sour cream and creme fraiche and its delicious.
You have to abuse a cow and kill it’s baby to drink milk
As a Dutchie, I agree. There are just so many dairy products to choose from. However, milk does not seem to be too big here. I feel like cheese is by far the most consumed dairy product in the Netherlands.
Lol...I'm a full grown person and I still drink milk & eat skyr and cheeses lol
As a fellow milk drinking adult Swedish man, agreed.
Do you all pasteurize it multiple times until it has a shelf life of ten years like Americans do?
A few years back, Canada’s Food Guide removed dairy products from the pyramid and it made national news. Basically said to drink more water and get vitamins from other spaces. Personally, i never liked milk. Only get it for my coffee and my cereals. My twin sister is lactose intolerant and my brother was intolerant to bovine proteins when he was young.
I never liked milk in its pure form but I love literally every single other version of milk; cheese, yogurt, butter, etc
@@s_gnals that’s bc cheese is amazing
@@pascaleand0r also ice cream
@@s_gnals GELATO 😍😍😍
I didn't know that!
My grandfather had 5 sons and 5 daughters. They never drink milk. They live past 80 years. The oldest one immigrated into the US when he was about 55 years old. He went to medical checkup and the doctor always said his health was good. He died at about 85 years old. All of my uncles swam and played soccer a lot when they were young and they did physical work. We are from Vietnam.
And your Vietnamese diet is good.
Without having that diet other foods would be needed.
And you may also be lactose intolerant unlike most Europeans
First it was breakfast. Then it was bananas. Now it’s milk.
IM RUNNING OUT OF THINGS TO EAT, JOHNNY. STOP IT!
Wait. What happened with bananas?!
at least doritos are still on the table
@@ルナチャイルド-q1m Doritos Forever Baby!
The Next Title Be Like:Why Your Life Sucks
@@TomVCunningham bananas were basically bought and grown with blood money, the Banana business led to the death, oppression and empoverishment of millions just to help greedy food companies like Monsanto and Dole
It's funny how, when I first tried "american cheese" (I'm foreigner, only got to try that at 17) I couldn't help thinking that was the only thing in America that looked, felt and taste like it was produced in the Soviet Union... now I know why 😂
I see what you mean 😂even if you hear the phrase "government cheese" out of context might expect it to be referring to Soviet cheese 😂good point ☝i.e. regardless of whose government it is, a government-produced (sponsored/supported) food product might tend to be bland and not delicious. Excellent comment 👏
It’s quite revolting, to be sure
I grew up in Europe and moved to the US at 17 so American "cheese" is pretty revolting to me but people here grew up with it so they don't think anything of it. BTW the same thing happens with white "bread", "chocolate", "mustard" and other "foods" that would make a European who grew up on baguettes, Milka, Dijon etc. wanna throw up. That said, poor people are more likely to consume those cheap foods, and quality stuff IS available if you're willing to pay actual money. Like you can buy a loaf of "bread" for $1 but also actual bread for $3+
@@garymathe9863 classic Europeans who think they’re better than Americans 😂
@@zach3096 They’re not better but the food is better quality. Those just facts coming from an American lol
This story is so important to more than just milk. This is happening in so many US industries: cars, airlines, and now housing. We’re often given to conspiratorial thoughts about these government interventions but just as with milk the story usually starts from a place of need and limited government action (feeding troops) but is quickly exploited by people with an agenda.
This is exactly what happened after the housing collapse and is occurring now with massive conglomerates and investors gambling on the prices of homes fully expecting the government to bail them out so that people won’t go homeless.
We need serious government reform of food, transportation and housing in our country and we can’t continue to be distracted by nonsense that doesn’t actually affect our lives.
I don't disagree. Government does one thing - it effs things up. BTW - the '08 housing crises was created by then-president Bill Clinton's (BTW - Clinton's *real* surname is Blythe) HUD director, Cuomo, mandating all quasi-government lending institutes write 50% of loans as sub-prime loans. You know, someone flipping burgers at McDonalds *could* be making 200K per years... (wink, wink). Oh, and now Xiden's quasi-government housing loans will penalize people with good credit to pay more for their loans than people with bad credit as to subsidize loan payments for those with bad credit. B-b-b-b-b-but my senator is really a good senator...! */s*
My grandparents are dairy farmers. They don't actually drink milk themselves just sell it. I just find it funny.
It's also interesting you mention cars in need of reform. In the US car manufacturers are pushing for larger and larger cars/trucks and telling us we need vehicles that large. Yet my farming grandparents get by with significantly smaller trucks from the 90s ( sides tractors of course ).
I'm actually a part of a research group that studies ruminants in cattle. It turns out that factory farms feed their cows all kinds of food they shouldn't be eating and the microbes inside their digestive tract produce significant amounts of greenhouse gas. (You should look it up).
However if you do what my grandparents do and let the cattle walk around the field and eat grass they don't produce as much greenhouse gas and are healthier/ live longer.
Something will always be getting pushed. If it’s not oil, then it’s renewables. If it’s not milk, then it’s Meatless Mondays. Unless you have a completely hands-off government that gives no guidance or assistance to any industry, in other words a purely Libertarian country, then you’re going to be fed something with an agenda. Literally.
A video on those subjects would have been a lot more informative than one about otherwise awesome milk. This specific video was extremely limited in value.
"Quickly exploited by people with an agenda"
...So a conspiracy.
Great video! I am so glad that we are in the "oat/almond/coconut milk era" since I also grew up in the 90's where milk was waiting in the table right before school and lactose intolerance wasn't in the dictionary.
Coconut is good, 90% of all oat milk has Glyphosphate in it and almond is very high in lectins.
its not milk tho...its just high concentrate of sugar and water...
Meh, the fake milk era is stupid too. Just drink water if you're lactose intolerant. I'd say it's generally a good idea to limit the amount of weird stuff we drink.
The not milk milks are just as bad and sometimes worse than cow milk
@@felucca I personally try to consume filter water since tap water or even the one in bottles seem to be harmful.🤐 Everyday a new study pop-ups where everything is bad for your health and u should not consume
It fascinates me that big dairy is pushing cheese so hard but fast food places like taco bell and pizza hut seem to serve cheese-like substances that are mostly oil-based.
Because of cost... ...oil-based cost nothing in comparison.
Oil is liquid fat. Cheese has from .5-40% fat by volume. I’m calling BS if the cheese-like substance *isn’t* oily when heated.
Now I just want a Personal Pan Pizza. It’s like an oily cheese puddle. 🫠
The OP is right that these places often use emulsified products that contain cheese, but probably don't contain enough cheese to be legally called cheese. You can either hate it or embrace it.
Note: This is different from cheese that is heated and has the oil separate.
@@dannymac6368 I'm certainly not speaking from a thoroughly investigated / researched position, so all criticisms are valid. But my understanding is that most fast food cheese starts from an oil-based method combined with a cheese production method, with cheese being in far fewer abundance. Taco Bell for at least a decade seems to be trying to cut the cheese out altogether with the nacho cheese spread on most of their items.
Cheese is still much healthier than refined oil based "cheeses". especially if made from grass fed free range cows no antibiotics or steroids. But good luck finding that
This really hits home. My mom would give me milk every night with sugar as a kid which caused several teeth to have issues.
If you think this is bad now apply this same idea to the pharmaceutical industry and how they are so concerned for our health 😂
They working for them, how to shut off themselfs?
Hey I have one even better,, add it to whatever has industry behind it 😂🎉😮😢
Try the comestics industry. Far worst.
@@desiderata8811 imagine using cosmetics. can't relate
apply in veganism
I've been binge-watching your videos, Johnny, for about 3 months. I find them very enlightening. You are an excellent journalist. A video on alcohol consumption would really be appreciated. According to the WHO, amongst legal and illegal drugs, alcohol is the one that causes most social damage.
Keep up the great work!!!
I love how we’re basically watching Johnny Harris work through his childhood problems. I mean, the man is absolutely right. We were oversold on milk. It's painful to see the lie in retrospect.
More like Johnny Harris is insecure because he’s ashamed of not being raised to be a good liberal activist and it really shows. Strong hick lib vibes from this guy
Maybe we are today, but in the past it was one of the crucial foods. All my grandparents had a small farm and they made their own butter, milk, cheese to have food on the table. They were poor and their weren't big grocery stores like today.
And guess what, they all reached the age of 90+ so i'm pretty sure it wasnt that bad.
There was a time that our ancestors only ate meat and had to hunt each day. And nowadays they tell you meat is bad and you have to go vegan.
@@redwhite_040 Milk is great.
our ancestors lived short lives with their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, the reason we live in cities today is because our ancestors managed to domesticate and farm crops, leading to an abundance of food without the need to find and kill wild animals that otherwise would die out
@@redwhite_040That generation was also a lot more physically active. Not saying milk is bad but feel like there were a lot more variables playing into why ppl made it to 90+.
My great-grandfather had like the 3rd largest dairy farm in the state of Michigan and literally met with the governor and lt governor in his living room because he was like the president of the dairy farmers association or something... pretty crazy how much power dairy farmers had...
the money. its all about money, that's probably why.
It's crazy how these "invisible" forces influence so much of what we consider to be healthy or desirable food. Thanks Johnny! Do sugar next!
Sugar....YES! We must know about sugar!!
They're very jealous of humanity.
@@oynion
Avocados too.
@@oynion red meat is better than the media tells you
@@Verniece1968 sugar has its consequences in the amount of processed foods Americans digest daily, but I'm still pretty sure the factual sources say it's better than the fakes. Also sugar doesn't make children go wild, its a placebo we've boughten into (No I don't work in the sugar market)
"Like, am I the only one who thought 'pasteurization' came from, like, the cow's pasture, but [twas] actually just a French guy's [surname]?"
Nope, you're not the only one. I did, too.
Literally the only creator who's sponsors I dont skip, Johnny's story telling skills are fantastic
he's full of shit
same
if only he'd realize the material realities of capital and government. he is so good at this but also so bad at connecting the dots.
sucker.
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I knew most of this stuff but I never realized that fast food chains and the dairy industry were in cahoots to add more cheese to their products. Wow
Cheese really sells itself. They just capitalized on it.
Dude, this was so well produced. You’ve been incrementally stepping up your game. 👍🏽👏🏽
This video has brought a lot of deeper thought to an already widely covered topic. Kept me interested from start to finish!
THIS explains why the majority of "Leave It to Beaver" episodes from the 1950s include Wally and the Beaver drinking milk AND sometimes even talking about it. Ice cream, too. There's even an episode where mom, June Cleaver, swigs down a big glass... which has always struck me as peculiar. Finally, an explanation for one of my favorite old shows! Thank you ❤🎉
Also on Lassie in the 50s, Timmy was always drinking big glasses of milk.
The food pyramid we all grew up with is practically the exact OPPOSITE of what our diet is supposed to be, the US government is completely untrustworthy on this stuff.
go eat butter on a stick then
Yep! All bread and dairy, I now mostly avoid both.
I’m actually curious so what’s the TRUE food pyramid ? Or what type of diet was it supposed to be
I know, right? Your diet ought to be based on sugar, salt and fat and you should eat as few vegetables and fruit as possible. An opposite pyramid, that's what we need.
@TillyOrifice Not what I was implying, if you cut out the tip a reverse pyramid means low carbs (minimal vegetable / cereal crop consumption) and high protein / fat (protein is the better of the two though). This is scientifically backed and the high carbs are why America has such an obesity epidemic. Can still eat vegetables but it has to be high nutrient low carbs ones like spinach / brocoli, cereal crops are a no go though other than protein extract from them like saitan.
I was born in 1972 and grew up in this milk era. Much to my parent’s chagrin I hated milk. They would push it on me constantly but it upset my stomach as did cheese. Eventually they gave up. I’m now 50, have never broken a bone despite being a very active person and don’t seem to have any health issues…other than being lactose intolerant 😂😂
milk from a cow actually is bad for bones, black beans are the best thing for bone strength.
And that's because you're not a cow .... Or a baby
"Despite" being a very active person? More like "because". Being active strengthens your bones and prevents health issues.
@@Alex-ds6sw Also 52. Drank tons of milk, because I never drank any alcohol. I feel like I'm trapped in an 18yo's body. I do 20 miles of inline speedskating. Drinking a glass now. Works very well for me.
I never much cared for milk as a child. When I got pregnant, my mother insisted I needed to drink lots of milk. I bloated up so badly, turns out I was seriously lactose intolerant.
Can you imagine if we could rebuild the world with our current knowledge and not rely on old beliefs and governments that will NEVER admit that they were wrong even decades ago?
When I came to the USA as a young adult, I was surprised to see adults drinking milk ! We had milk as children and people always had milk in tea and coffee but seeing adults drinking big glasses of milk just blew my mind - it still does ! Thanks for explaining.
Where are you from?
Your mind seems to be easily blown
i want human milk, as a man
What did you guys dunk your cookies in?
@@SawChaser kinda weird to see someone drinking what looks like human milk as an adult
I remember spending entire primary and secondary school years squirming in pain due to lactose intolerance. It was not until one day I decided to drink black coffee instead of milk coffee and felt wonderful. That was when I realized milk was not meant for me and cut down pretty much as 95% of my milk consumption since. Best decision of my life 😂
Good for you. I think I'm somewhat lactose intolerant, but just got used to it. Went vegan and cheated once and realized that I felt like shit after eating just a slice of cheese. Very strange feeling realizing you've been harming yourself for decades. I have somewhat unconsciously decreased my dairy consumption slowly overtime because I noticed harmful effects after a ton of dairy and just thought it was normal, but intuitively felt it wasn't the healthiest thing to eat for me. It's pretty insane they've been pushing dairy like this in a multicultural country when most of the world shouldn't be consuming the stuff.
U drank coffee in kindergarten, damn
Sounds depressing as hell. I can do without milk drinking before I could give up CHEESE.
This dude 100% still eats pizza knowing the consequence
@@Cancellator5000 how can someone cheat to morals and values of not wanting to use or abuse innocent sentient animals? Do yoy also cheat not being a rapist and rape sometimes? Being vegan is not a diet, thus, someone can't cheat, its just ethics and morals. Someone that rapes is a rapist, it doesn't matter how often or how not often that person does it.
As a child in the 70s, it wasn't even a question: you couldn't leave the table after any meal unless you had finished your glass of milk.
Same in the 80s! I hated the aftertaste of milk and still do. I really thought I would die or something if I didn't have milk every day 😂
Even to the present
I wish they still did that. Now the average teens' diet consists of vape, sugar drinks, and lots of artificially produced snacks plus a fuck ton of candy. It's honestly tragic. Humans state of health is on a severe decline...
from the 70s my mom wanted me to finish a full glass of cat milk ahhhh. wait where the frak did she manage to get cat milk in such big amounts?
The beauty of marketing with a side of political lobbying, truly a wonderful display.
Dairy is arguably the cruelest industry in the world. We say we love animals yet cause horrific suffering to them and especially cows.
Thank you for continually uncovering the facts! I am from 🇬🇧 UK and have never understood why processed cheese was in such high demand! My expat friends are always saying that food here in the US has so much cheese on it!!! “Cheese with everything!”
Please keep the content coming it is refreshing to hear an unbiased viewpoint.
Consider a piece on High Fructose Corn Syrup, if you want to continue to be the “FoodGuy”.
Here is a quote that I will recite here for entertainment purposes. "Make no mistake, pasteurization was never about healthier milk. It was all about flipping the business from the Milkman to the grocery store, making the sale of raw milk illegal solidified the deal... & you can take that to the bank...
Hello dear one. You're preaching to the choir.
Makes sense. Anything to hurt the small businessperson.
A lot of people were dying from non-pasteurized milk, but ok.
People were actually being harmed from milk expiration
I believe it was actually AL Capone who lobbied for it because his niece got sick due to expired milk
@@TSTH-camryeah, most likely that also contributed, however is about profit margins, raw milk is perfectly safe but it needs better practices... If you pasteurize you can just get more cows in a smaller place and not clean at all... So better margins.
Parents were from Caribbean and Central America, so they did not grow up drinking excessive amounts of milk- maybe a few cups a week from dairy GOATS. Everything else that you wanted for a smooth, unctous, fatty flavor was done using homemade coconut milk or peanut milk. I grew up only drinking milk was I was little, usually at school, and even then it was hard to get kids to drink it, so it was sweetened and flavored (chocolate and strawberry milk) I don't drink milk now, and only have cheese in dishes a couple of times a month.
Ohh but goat's milk is another league up in comparison to cow's milk, much more suitable for a human consumption.
Well, goat milk is significantly more similar to cow milk. So you at least got the better stuff
I rarely drink milk, like basically never, but almost everything I eat has cheese in it. Unless it's Chinese food, or some other asian-styled cuisine, my food is cheese filled lol.
coconut/peanut milk doesn't have enough calcium or protein so IDK why would anyone drink it.
I had lots of acne as a teen, but then I stopped eating dairy and eggs and my acne reduce like 99%. Not saying dairy is the cause of acne, but if you’re acne prone dairy is not your friend.
Also, I eventually found the true cause of acne from Medical Medium, which is strep bacteria that love to eat dairy and eggs.
In health class in high school we had to build a balanced plate for a project and we had to put two sources of dairy. I’m lactose intolerant but I wasn’t allowed to not put something so my teacher made me lie on my project.
As if the point wasn't to learn a skill you can use for yourself (or people with various restrictions)! "Education" sometimes! Smh.
This is PEAK education. Did they even acknowledge you had an intolance?
@@astecheee1519 do they need to?why?
The teacher taught u well, lies is part of the process of being successful
What torment! Your suffering is unparalleled in human history. Asswipe.
I usually skip videos longer than 15 minutes but with Johnny Harris things are different.
Great work man.
The real question is how many of those under 15 min videos do you watch ? 10 10 min videos is wayyy more time spent then one 30 min video
..tells a lot about your education level
@@praddumnvats6759 or yours. Could be they have attention deficit, or have a baby to take care of, or only have internet at work. There COULD be valid reasons, before assuming and making yourself look like a fool, consider some things.
@@praddumnvats6759 oh nice conclusion. You seem very smart . I'll send you my resume later.
@@paddington1670 lmao
I feel like most of JH's topics are stuff I've heard about briefly in school or on social media, but he has a way of reminding you of them and then going in depth that is really awesome!
Some older ladies in my church in the 80’s (I was a kid) got govt cheese and would bring it to potlucks, etc. I miss it so much, to me it’s what cheddar was supposed to taste like. Nostalgia FTW.
“American Cheese” sold in the UK can’t even legally be called cheese, I’ve got a pack here and it’s labelled ‘Processed slices made using a blend of cheese, palm oil and milk proteins’ 🤔
Haha
I think the whole point of American cheese is that it's like cheddar but emulsified with palm oil so that it melts at a lower point
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They eat a lot of garbage in the USA .
@@timhanser1943 we eat a lot of garbage in the UK too, they just have to tell you it’s garbage 🤢
the best part of JH videos is that his information in the videos actually sticks in your head.
When I was in school I had free lunch, so i never had the choice to drink water because that costed money but milk was free. I did always find that odd.
There isn't a single water fountain in your school?
@@LNVACVAC doesn’t mean don’t give kids water for lunch
@@tot4099 It doesn't.
Love your videos cuz, don’t stop
I loved when my lactose intolerant 5-year-old was told drinking milk would be great for his growth by his pediatrician, who then handed me a brochure from the National Dairy Council 😂 2 years later I’m still shook 🙄
Raw milk won't cause lactose intolerance because it has lactase in it which helps your body digest lactose. Pasteurized milk destroys the lactase and the probiotics and the enzymes making it unhealthy garbage.
Kind of like when my perfectly healthy son's pediatrician told me he should get experimental gene therapy and handed me a brochure from a company that makes big dairy look like a popsicle stand.
@@amarissimus29 that’s crazy!
Wow, you shake easily
@@notreally2406 lol just imagine the amount of people that would blindly go with that recommendation and not check the very small logo on the back.
What bothers me the most is how high milk prices can get despite all its subsidies to the industry.
Where I live the price of milk has stayed the same throuought the whole egg profiteering situation we are in right now. Hopefully the price of milk stays where it is.
@@Ryan-wr8fx you lucky bastard, congrats!
@@Ryan-wr8fx where's that?
I'm WAY more concerned with the corn industry and their connection to the government than the milk industry.
the people here will miss my hot schokolade when in austrian Alps at -13 grad. We suffer a massive amount of invasive virtue signaling advices
People also forget that there's tons of glyphosate dumped on the fields which ends up in our food. Corn is in most things, and it's been sprayed with a known carcinogen
A lot of the anti-milk science has been funded and promoted by Monsanto. They would love it if we replaced our milk consumption with GMO soy milk.
One of the earliest and most widely cited early studies “against” milk from the late 1990’s compared soy milk and dairy milk consumption. The conclusion of the study was that soy milk drinkers were healthier. It had significant study design flaws, very short follow up, and the conclusions were overstated. But shortly thereafter in the early 2000’s the Soy Milk industry saw massive increase in sales.
@@jmelande4937if you think milk is healthy you are mistaken. Your not even suppose to consume large amounts of it. My mom has a bone mutation from too much dairy and every single of my family members that drinks milk everyday gets back pain when milk is suppose to build strong bones. I guess small or occasional dairy is fine. I have been vegan for years without drinking milk and dairy. Not only are all nutrition requirements met but I look a decade younger too.
@@3arthandsky I never extolled the benefits of milk. I’m just saying that the research that disparages it isn’t any better than the research that promotes it.
I have a friend, he died at 94, his breakfast was milk and harring
@SevenEllen he stayied good almost to the end, only last like 1,5 year was ill
Man, this is shocking to see... actually we Indians consume a lot of dairy in day-to-day life. Even I was drinking about half a liter of milk daily. thankyou for a such thoughtful and informative video
A lot of what people think is lactose intolerance in the west is just a milk protein allergy. The kinds of dairy cows we use in the west mostly come from northern Europe, like Holsteins and Jerseys, and produce milk with A1 protein. The milk cows in India and the surrounding country are breeds that produce milk with the A2 protein. So when people that are used to drinking cows milk in other parts of the world come to the West and drink our milk, many end up sick because the milk really is different, and that has created a myth that people around the world don't drink cows milk except in the west. We now have farms in the US that are producing milk with A2 protein cows so we have more variety.
@@lethargicwizard which brands produce A2 varieties? or is it only at local scale?
Our dairy industry is also quite political. However most of us are dying of hunger and not of being obese, although that is growing.
@@lethargicwizardLactose Intolerance is a fascinating concept here. I have never seen a single lactose intolerant guy in my 19 years in India, it just feels like a far off West thing and often the subject of 'white people=weak' jokes. Given how many delicacies here are milk-based, it's unimaginable to me how some people can have problems drinking milk. Also btw A2 milk doesn't contain a different kind of protein, it's just a general absence of the A1 protein. Most local breeds β-casein proteins in their milk which even tho isn't a direct cause for lactose intolerance, is certainly a factor contributing to it. Lactose Intolerance technically has nothing to do with caseins, it's just the inability to digest lactose.
@@lethargicwizardalso the myth is just plain idiotic, whose milk do you think we consume, chickens?
Thanks for shining a light onto the milk industry and how it grew from local, small farmers into such an enormous industry today. Covering the aspect of how the advertising power of a lobby group can have such profound influence on the nutrition behavior and health beliefs of an entire population is really enlightening. I think this allows for us to take more informed decisions when buying stuff, and trough this steer companies in a better direction. One aspect that that was missing for me was the ethical aspect of the dairy industry and the massive suffering it inflicts. And this for products we do not even need for a healthy diet. This could be a great topic for a further video, if you are interested in making more food related videos. For everybody else interested, I can recommend the documentary "Dominion" (which you can find for free on YT as far as I know) to enable you to take more informed decisions when grocery shopping. It helped me a great lot in better knowing what kind of industry I supported through my purchases.
I thought the brutality of that industry would be mentioned in this video. Clearly not.
Well it's kinda a different topic and the video is already half an hour long.
@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 and yet it’s vitally important. It also is having drastic and deleterious health effects on BIPOC and/or low income communities that live near these “farms” (more like factories). It’s brutal in more ways than one.
@@mollyk3768 The "drastic and deleterious" health effects you're talking about is lactose intolerance. As told in the video, humans have adapted to digest milk and people of color are more likely to show symptoms of lactose intolerance. That doesn't actually mean milk is bad, but that some people just shouldn't drink it. The health risks of living near a farm really aren't as bad as you're making out to be. The biggest risk of living near a farm is pesticides. But that's out of the question for organic farms. There are the diseases that animals could carry, but that's when you're in direct contact with them. Then there is dust that can get in the air, which could increase risk for respiratory diseases, but is still not as bad as living in most cities. Just look at an air quality map, you can directly see how much worse any city compared to the rural farms. Farmers themselves generally have healthier lifestyles and a stronger immunity. Yes, there are risks, but you're overly exaggerating.
@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 intolerence and a allergy are different if you are intolerant you may get bad stomach but in a allergy even smelling milk can cause immuno response
As someone who never really drank cow’s milk, I remember when I found out about all the stuff that goes on in relation to the North American dairy market, and I’m just glad you’re sharing things like this with the rest of the world. Thank you for doing informative journalism correctly.
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Coming from EU (France precisely) and it feels so weird watching this video since we didn't really had that era here. As you even mentioned in this video, France made and is still making at this day, some very cool cheeses and dairy products, and ofc we don't have the same government sooo nobody was pushing the parents, to force-feed their children with a gallon of milk every day 😂 in fact, in France we even say that it is bad to drink too much milk. Things like, "more than 2 glasses per day raise cardiac problems and clogs your arteries" etc... (because milk indeed contains a lot of fats) but yeah feels funny for me, just watching this video about something we never witnessed here in Europe, during the entire video I was like "What? Whaaaat? Lol what kind of bullshit those Americans were saying during the 50's 😂" other than that, great content as usual! Keep it up my guy, aaand hope to meet you in France where I would let you taste some of our best cheeses such as a good homemade Camembert, Brie a la Truffe, some Saint-Félicien, aaand ofc my favorite (which is actually Italian but we master it in France too) : The Pecorino A La Truffe Noire 😮😋
Love these deep dives--Great job. As someone with a family history of cancer I just wish you added how doctors are suing the FDA as they don't require cheese to list the high concentrations of estrogen it contains and which increases hormonal cancer rates.
Yikes
Wtf
Why the fuck would cheese contain estrogen?
@@elektrosvijet Antibiotics cause the animals to become fat and produce more milk, when the milkfat is used to make the cheese, the antibiotics that are processed in the animal's body as estrogenated compounds are excreted in the milk.
@@dn7949 nope
A couple of years ago I became obsessed with learning to make the perfect pizza. I experimented with all kinds of different crust recipes, sauces, and of course different toppings. I've ended up liking fresh Italian mozzarella the most - I've found that you don't need much of it; pizza is better when it's not drowning in cheap cheese.
I guess if you have goat milk cheese or whole milk cheese it's better for it's cream content 🤔
Yes. Pureed canned San Marzano tomatoes for the sauce, fresh chopped basil, buffalo mozzarella.
@@googiegress I do that plus lots of garlic and italian sausage.
Like napolitano pizza 🍕 i am in the same process now ! I agree 100%
When I first learned of the link between big dairy and fast food my biggest surprise was how Burger King has gotten away all these years never putting cheese on the Whopper
Also it makes so much sense now why it's almost impossible to get a burger without that crap American "cheese" on it.
You can ask them to add cheese, but you'd only do it once. It doesn't improve it IMO.
I’m Asian and in our culture, we don’t have milk on our diet. I’m just 5’3” / 160cm. I wished our government have had much marketing to force us to drink milk when I was a kid. On the other hand, I have nieces taller than me and the difference - they had milk introduced on their diet.
How this guy produces consistently good content is beyond me
Because it's a formula. There's a huge market for infotainment.
How this guy manages to pull facts out of his ass is amazing 😍 . Anyone who thinks that drinking milk is useless is absolute clown and should be outcasted . Johnny is just running leftist propoganda.
He has a whole team.
Hands down, one of the most consistent, well made and informative content creators on TH-cam. Thanks Johnny!!
It's content, bud good? He is being criticized for making mistakes in the videos or getting a whole idea wrong.
I'm convinced this root of a bunch of this country's problems is LIES. I was a teen during that Got Milk campaign. All the dairy companies banning together for one ad campaign made me suspicious. I stopped drinking for the most part after that, though I relapsed during pregnancy.
I'm so confused at why Johnny didn't even mention ice cream like did he forget it exists as a concept
I love ice cream 😻 but hate milk from bottom of my heart.
@@zazzy2012 Milkshake dates milk in Archie comics. Basically going on a date to drink a glass of milk. I was shocked when I first visited a diner in the US and I was able to order a milkshake with my breakfast meal.
He is backed by big ice cream. There is no other possible explanation.
And breakfast cereal
Hes sponsored by ice cream
Just look at the way they treat cows.
Horrible.
I just drink oat milk almond milk and I fucking love it
I always thought it was weird how milk was considered a food group with things like fruits and vegetables, and I remember my health teacher in jr. high showing us pictures of families from different cultures with the food they ate laid out in front of them and pointing out how they were missing dairy products when they ate healthier food than what the american was eating.
They were missing dairy because most of the world is lactose intolerant...damn ameridumbs really know nothing!
I have read that men who do not drink milk do not get prostate cancer. I have also read that women who do not drink milk do not get breast cancer.
That’s evidence of nothing
@@WSFM_Rex Men who do not drink milk do not get prostate cancer. Women who do not drink milk do not get breast cancer! What is that evidence of???
That's not why they don't consume milk. In most areas of the world without European ancestry people can't digest lactose, therefore they don't drink milk.
Love the video! You should do a lot more videos on 90s marketing to kids. There were so many crap foods that were thrown in our face pumped full of dyes and chemicals. Best part, it was advertised as "nutritious".
I can definitely see Johnny doing exactly that. Goodness knows us 90's kids now in our late 30's-40's would "eat it up", pun intended. It's fun to look back and realize we were practiced upon and marketing victims of the corporations of the time, and yet simultaneously feel quaint nostalgia and a sense that the world of our childhoods was safer than the world is now. It is a fact, or a fallacy of perspective?
I wonder which food that we mass consume today also fall victim to this. I feel like the whole vitamin industry might fall into the same category today bc apparently there is no official research that shows supplements actually boosts health yet so many Americans take it. Especially those collagen / “superfood” powders
As someone who currently is studying food science… i am so happy to watch this video, and i think recognizing and being aware of food politics should be our focus in order to make this world more sustainable.
politics? sustainable? They are way ahead of you. The opposition is always controlled opposition. America is a fascist country.
Fascism = corporatism + government. Fascist symbols are *in many, many federal buildings.*
Hiding in plain site...
Do you know any other food product like this milk lie?
@@NaveenKumar-sf7yj All major cash crops, meaning food that can be produced easily using industrial techniques.
The government of Mexico is for example advertising avocados in my city (Montréal, Canada). A few weeks ago I noticed there are such "Mexican avocado" posters in every metro stations in the city
When something is called a "super food" or that you "must" consume it to be healthy, it's a red flag that someone is trying to sell you more of it. In reality, a good diet simply needs to be diverse enough to provide you all the nutrients you need. There is no food that you "must" consume to achieve this
@Ed Nigma The lie is in the fact that some industries try to make you think that you must eat something to be healthy, while in reality it isn't true. As long as your diet is complete and diverse, then you're fine. The best diet should be the one that can be produced in the area where you live, or at least as much as possible. For example, this means that for me who lives in the north, eating some avocadoes from Mexico all the time would be a stupid decision. The fact that Mexico wants its avocadoes to become popular here is to simply be able to sell always more of them at a price always higher to make more profits, while in reality there is nothing in an avocado that makes it a "super food" that everyone "must" eat to be healthy. It's the same about milk. It's a good source of nutrients, but you don't have to drink milk to be healthy if you have access to other sources of food which are as nutritious.
But what's also great is that, he framed it in a way that people can watch this video, and think that global warming is entirely fake and funded by the leftist government.
Or that the world is actually flat...
Great video!
I am a victim of abuse and have eaten very little over the years. In the 6 months since I escaped, milk has saved my life and made me feel and look a lot better. I hadn't drink. Milk in almost a decade
We love your videos no matter what they are about! This one made me especially happy to see 🙋🏻♀Well done telling this story that everyone should hear 🙌
Hi Kara and Nate. Love your videos
He makes great videos, but I think he overplayed the conspiracy doom and gloom on this one. Milk is actually really good for you (if you can drink it) because it has every nutrient your body needs to survive. That's why mammals drink milk exclusively after they are born. It's a great, natural nutrition supplement, especially for kids who are still growing.
And I know that it isn't natural to drink another species' milk, but nobody would go for an industry that milks humans... lol
@@GeoffCostanza If milk is so good for you, why is there no animal that relies on solely drinking milk? Why go through the fuss of eating/drinking anything other than milk? Why has evolution forced us to develop an intolerance to it in the first place? Oh yeah, because it DOESN'T contain everything the human body needs. Ever heard of fiber? Vitamin C? Why does the dairy industry need to ADD vitamins to the milk if it's so "perfect"? They add both Vitamin A and D. Oh, and iron, you know the thing we use to make blood cells? Only found in very small doses. Anemia isn't fun, just saying.
Please stop believing the lie that milk contains "every nutrient the body needs to survive". Sure, have your milk, but don't spread misinformation.
I don’t think he overplayed doom and gloom. The lobbying in this industry has had a measurable impact. The fake science payed for by companies to sell their products isn’t doom and gloom. 😂
Milk isnt vital for strong bones but milk has definitely helped me survive, I was born severely underweight and goat milk helped me get stronger. Milk is definitely not a poison, in fact if you dont have lactose intolerance its a great way to give your body many essential nutrients.
Missing the point
Yeah, yeah we know. Our government does things it shouldn't be doing. I still like milk.@@dwaynekeenum1916
@@dwaynekeenum1916didn’t watch the video, what’s the point?
@@dwaynekeenum1916womp womp
Ohhh this makes so much sense of Canada's dairy supply management program! In the 1970s the government introduced a quota system for dairy farmers, to prevent over and undersupply of dairy products. It also heavily restricted imports of foreign cheese products. . . because I guess the US was trying to dump their extra cheese into the Canadian market, and undercutting the prices for Canadian cheese. We still have the quota system today, and I always thought it was a bit weird. But it makes so much sense now that I know what was happening south of the border in the 70s!
Exactly what I was thinking too. But likely also the reason the the US has also been working on (and has for Canada) forcing dairy exports into new trade agreements, which is a new way to get rid of more excess milk!
The system of quotas in Canada also generates surpluses. When a farmer produces more milk than his quota allows, then this milk is either giving for free in schools or dumped to the garbage (I hope they at least use it as fertilizer and not just dump it in the sewers)
The only truth I need to know is if there's a good amount of quality protein in it. The rest of that BS I could gaf about
Wow, I drank a quart of milk every day when I was pregnant. We had the MIC program and the WIC program. We got gallons of milk in this government program along with eggs and cheese. This was in the 1980's.. My youngest son was still born with a bone condition called Rickets. It was so much milk that I froze some and share some with my neighbors so it wouldn't spoil. They did have dry beans and a variety of hot cereals and sugary cereals to choose from, so we did get to use a lot of the milk. My daughters did gain weight but I kept them at the park to run and jump outside, that helped. Thanks for digging deep with your research good information. An educated consumer is the best customer.
just so you know, rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, not excess calcium.
@StickersRIP I lived up north so probably didn't get out in he sun enough in the long winter and fall seasons.
My wife is lactose intolerant and some of my kids are. I checked out some maps on this and now understand that she came from an area that has a much larger % of the population that is lactose intolerant than from where my ancestors are from. I learned something. Good video. We buy lactose free milk. It seemed weird to me that they had problems drinking milk and I didn't understand why. I just assumed everyone could drink milk.
You should stop drinking milk on the whole… even lactose free is worthless to our bodies
I grew up drinking raw milk in Mexico, when I came to the US I stopped drinking it because I didn't like the milk here. I discovered that I still love raw grass fed milk, I hate the "milk" they sell here. Of course in most states it's illegal for people to sell me raw grass fed milk, so I had to become part of a private club in order to buy raw grass fed milk from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania and pay a lot of money to get it sent to my house. And the government raided them trying to stop them. The dairy industry doesn't want competition from real milk.
So sad.
That Amish raid made national news.
What a shame!
I too belong to that "subversive"' group and drink only raw milk It's much healthier than pasteurized milk, and the reason behind the pasteurization process is a lie of it's own. I would encourage Mr. Harris to research raw milk OUTSIDE of any government funded entities then report back to us his findings.
That's exactly where the problem is. American "milk" and "cheese" are as remote from real milk and cheese as they can possibly be.
Laws requiring pasteurization are dumb af. When it was invented it was for cows drinking water from the gutters of Paris, a modern dairy farm with well looked after cows doesn't need pasteurization most of the time
Corn is grass