If you are concerned about the large number of chemicals and additives in milk, you may be tempted to give your family Hormone-Free milk. Unfortunately, there is no such thing! Hormone-Free milk is just a marketing phrase for less hormones than chemically-saturated milk. In fact, all body fluids and flesh from any animal contains hormones. Steak, hamburger, pork chops, milk, urine, etc. all contain hormones. What they are really advertising is the fact that they dont add hormones to their cows to artificially produce more milk. Any animal is a hormone-producing machine. We make our own hormones constantly. We dont need cows hormones in our bodies as well!

However, this doesnt change the fact that milk hormones are bad for you. In fact, just eating meat can be bad for you. Anytime you eat or drink an animal, your body is assimilating that animals hormones. The old saying, You are what you eat never rang truer!

Weve made the point before that other animals dont drink milk once they are weaned. And other animals certainly dont sit down and drink the milk of other animals. Only we humans do that. Lets put it into perspective. Would you sit down for a bowl of cereal and ask for a nice big squirt of breast milk? Sounds sort of gross! But we do the same thing by feeding our children cows milk. And who doesnt love a big bowl of chocolate ice cream? Yum! Frozen cows milk!

So the question shouldnt be Is Hormone-Free Milk Better? but rather Where are the hormones in my diet coming from? If you want to grow to be a cow, then certainly drink plenty of cows milk and eat lots of beef. All those cow and steer hormones will help you grow into a nice big bovine! But as humans, we should steer (pun intended) away from animal hormones period. There are plenty of other nutritional sources for proteins, vitamins, and minerals that avoid the hormone problem all together. Well look at other plant-based foods in upcoming articles that will provide a healthy, nutritional alternative to animal-based diets. For example, a diet rich in spinach, broccoli, and other green vegetables, is better for you in the long run than beef and dairy. You may even be surprised how much better you feel once you eliminate meat from your diet and thus, reduce the amount of animal hormones you are ingesting and assimilating.