And I'm Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks, which I founded to empower people to make

informed food choices and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights.

You can learn more about who we are and what we do by

visiting compassionate cooks.com. If I were to ask you the best source of

calcium, what would you say? You would probably think about

cow's milk, right? Most people do. You wouldn't think about horses milk or

dogs milk or human milk. You'd probably think about cow's milk. Now stay with me here. I'm making a point.

So we've been taught from a very young age that cow's milk is a very necessary and healthful food for humans to consume.

Obviously the dairy industry has been teaching us this and obviously because it has a lot of

calcium. Now let's just think about this for a moment. Don't you think

it odd that when humans think about consuming human milk they're kind of

grossed out, right? I mean there's been jokes about its sitcoms have had skits about the idea that humans consume

human milk and you know it's kind of a gross concept for adults to consider that but we don't have a problem

consuming another

animals milk. So again, we're taught from a very young age

that it's necessary for us to consume cow's milk.

And I'm not suggesting that we go out and start a whole industry of human

milk by the way. I'm just trying to make the point that we don't have a problem drinking

another species milk, but we do have a kind of a problem drinking if we consider drinking our own human milk.

It's obviously a highly nutritious food, cows milk is, but it's a highly nutritious food for calves, right? The idea that a cow

is to support that calf once he or she is born.

Cows, humans, all mammals, lactate, they give milk when they're pregnant,

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