Letter: Milk is worst thing to drink

Monday, March 20, 2000 | 9:38 a.m.

We have made a point of stressing that PETA recommends fruit juices, soy milk and mineral water -- even soda -- over milk OR beer. We've invoked beer in our nutritional comparison simply to make the point that milk is so awful for you that even a glass of beer -- certainly no health food itself -- would be a better choice than a glass of milk!

More and more doctors and nutritionists are recommending that we banish milk from our diets altogether, because it's loaded with fat and cholesterol and has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, and even osteoporosis, the very disease it's supposed to prevent.

Even the world's most renowned expert on child care, the late Dr. Benjamin Spock, recommended that parents raise children on a diet free of cow's milk. Cow's milk, after all, is designed for baby cows, who have four stomachs, double their weight in 47 days, and weigh 300 pounds within a year.

PETA urges everyone, beer-drinkers included, to drink responsibly. Where milk is concerned, there's no such thing!

ALISON GREEN

PETA spokeswoman, Norfolk, Va.