How The Dairy Industry Made Milk a Diet Staple

Got milk? But do you actually need it? Here's how the dairy industry pushed milk as a health product.

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00:00I hope you're all drinking milk, I want to get rid of it.

00:22Thus, through better feeding, tomorrow's citizens may achieve sounder minds and bodies

00:42than ever before.

00:53The milk already pasteurized and treated is piped into this filling station, where carton

00:58after carton is filled with an exact amount.

01:05But I'm still a skinny bench warmer.

01:27Hey, if the sight of yourself at 18 doesn't convince you, Tom, listen to your senior year girlfriend.

01:32Hi, Tom. I'm waiting.

01:35Milk, it does a body good.

01:54Right where it belongs in the garbage.

01:56We don't want this hormone.

02:26Real milk needs no shaking.

02:36When almond doesn't lactate, I will confess.

03:07My understanding of why people turn to soy milk or almond milk or whatever is that they

03:16can't tolerate dairy products.

03:18And so they know they're looking for something that's not dairy.

03:33Anyone for milk?

03:36No.

03:37No.

03:38No.

03:39No.

03:40No.