Beth Mendenhall is a political science and philosophy student at Kansas State University decided to take a stab in a role as a journalist and nutritionist, and the results were pretty disastrous. In her article, “A lobbying success story of milk: Unnatural, unhealthy, unwise,” Mendenhall bashes the dairy industry in a piece that has stirred up a lot of controversy. Here is an excerpt from her less-than-flattering piece…

Humans are the only animals on the planet that drink another animal’s milk. Thus, by definition, drinking cows’ milk is extremely unnatural.Despite thousands of years of cattle domestication, the human digestive system hasn’t even adapted to dairy consumption, which is why you probably can’t do the “Gallon Challenge.”

In fact, 60 percent of adults worldwide are unable to effectively digest lactose, the main sugar found in milk. So why do Americans insist on consuming massive amounts of dairy products? Dairy industry propaganda and decades of lobbying have made us believe that milk “does a body good,” when in fact it only increases the risk of disease and unhappiness for millions of humans and cows alike.

Milk’s inclusion in the U.S. Department of Agriculture food pyramid is a direct result of ties to the dairy industry. Most non-Caucasian ethnic groups are almost completely lactose intolerant, yet receive all their required nutrients.