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Flourishing microbes are consumed with every bite of cheese though the cooling temperatures in refrigerators do slow down bacterial growth, they do not kill them in cheese or in any other food. Bacteria either naturally swimming around the milk or manually injected and enzymes derived from the inner stomach linings of any slaughtered milk-producing mammal called rennet are added to coagulate the milk into curds.Two proteins arise from curdled milk and manufacturers capitalize on them: The first is whey, which is essentially leftover liquid from curdled milk and is increasingly being used as an ingredient in producing other foods. The second is casein, which makes up the bulk of the solid part of cheese, along with fat.
Fat is what gives cheese its taste, and 70 to 80 percent of the calories in cheese come from pure fat.
Factories are adding more bacterial groups into cheese to achieve enhanced flavors.
Cheese might be a hot commodity, but like other dairy products, it can have some unhealthy aspects. Other ways to get your calcium fix include eating the following foods: fortified grains, kale, collard greens, mustard greens, cabbage, kelp, seaweed, watercress, chickpeas, broccoli, red beans, soybeans, tofu, seeds and raw nuts. With all that variety, there’s hope for any cheese addict.
Note the disclaimer at the end of the article. Apparently the original article was filled with comments about how cheese is somehow laced with pesticides. I reckon some trade group threatened to sue over that. Note how carefully worded the disclaimer is to kind of hint that cheese is indeed full of pesticides.
Open Vegan sites, such as these, are one thing. But I wonder how many sites like this are acting as scientific “cover” for the others. One interesting aspect of this is that the FBI may be investigating Vegans as possibly subversive or even terrorists. While this seems laughable to most people, there is something creepy about many of these people. And such odd zealotry is indeed suspicious.
Thanks to Nate for pointing this out.
Being originally from Wisconsin, this makes me want to bitch-slip these people. Bacteria and microbes are not always harmful. To live a sterile, bacteria-free life is impossible.
Hey, hippies, there’s bacteria on your cabbage. Always has been, always will be. Come back when you have a better argument.
Excellent observation (comparing vegan to a religion) John. The task of science is to draw conclusions from facts. The task of religion is to highlight facts the support your conclusions.
I saw this on MSNBC’s website and thought the same thing. Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28641673/
It’s the bacteria in the cheese that makes it tasty.
#1 – predictably doesn’t miss a chance to display his blanket bigotry. I guess all “hippies” must be vegans – just like all christians must be southern baptists – and all nerds and geek are required to bow their head either (and only) in the direct of a Job or Gates.
What a boring shuck.
Of course, you only make cheese with active cultures of varying kinds. For centuries. I guess that’s a concern for people who talk to their plants – and receive answers.
Just like the christians who aren’t just religious; but, talk to their god every night and receive directions to the path of righteousness prepaid.
Vegan-ism is progressing to cult status
Check out: http://www.suprememastertv.com
24 hour TV in 60 languages on satellites all over the world. Promoting vegan-ism as a religion. With a leader who gives herself the title of “Supreme Master”. Smacks of Jim Jones. Watch out for the pure vegetable based Kool Aid.
Cool John, you’ve thrown down the gauntlet. Now we’ll see which of your usual bloggers are militant vegans. This could get bloody…
So what do you promote John? Eating meat with every meal? Good luck with the colon cancer you’ll be getting then. I’m not a vegan nor a vegetarian (right now) but as a whole, most Americans eat too much meat.
I accept the fact that milk is dangerous.
You and Your Milk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=67z6s3V8M4g
Milk The Deadly Poison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYpafipJyDE
In sheer numbers, you have more bacterial cells in and on your body than you do “human” cells. And you can’t live without most of them either.
As to cheese, it’s just “Milk Done Right”
Mmmmmn! Cheeeese….omnomnomonom
Some cheeses also have molds, like Blue, Stilton, or Roquefort. They’re still delicious. Incidentally, that mold is the organism that makes penicillin, which saves lives.
Echoing the above: MMMMM cheese and meat.
If they think that’s gross, then I guess they’ve never heard of Nattō (fermented soybeans), or Lutefisk (fish soaked in caustic soda). Yummm…
“Veganistas!” I knew there was something creepy about them.
#5,
Notably higher in fiber than regular Kool-Aid.
If they wanted to scare people, they should have taken info from this cheese and say it was used in other types of cheese…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
I don’t think LiveScience is a ‘front’ for the Vast Vegan Conspiracy- looks like they’re getting called out for this article by their readers. Although I do wonder about the editorial decision to run it.
This is almost as good as Sea Kittens.
best rant i ever read:
These morons better lay off the booze then.
I’m against extremism in all forms (is that extreme?), but calling veganism a religion is a little silly (or a little troll-y), although some of the more extreme vegans might resemble religion extremists. But that’s true about anything. If you refuse to give up eating meat, then doesn’t that make you a flesh worshipper?
Normally I would look upon this as just another group eager to tell the rest of us how to live our lives. Well, strictly speaking they are.
However, in this case I say the more vegans the better. It cuts down on the demand thus lowering the price of those tender and juicy fire-kissed steaks that makes life worth living.