Points to point out about why not to consume milk?

I am a new non-meat and non-dairy and non-egg eater, and I am taking a speech class. I have to give a persuasive speech (5 minutes), and at first I was going to talk about non-animal eating in general, but I was having a difficult time fitting it into the time limit, so I decided to just speak about not consuming milk and milk products.

What are some key points I should make? I want to talk about health aspects and animal cruelty aspects -- I am mainly having trouble with the health part. Thanks!

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The cattle industry supports clear cutting forest areas (even in our precious rain forest),
Cattle give off harmful methane gas emissions while the dairy farms over populate to the point of high pollutant percentages,
The treatment of the cows is truly discussing: they are pumped up with such extreme levels of rBGH (bovine growth hormone) and other hormones to stimulate milk production, that the cows are, more often than not, unable to even stand on their own four legs.
They have to be mechanically held up.
They are mechanically milked to the point where their udders bleed profusely.
The udders are usually puss ridden and infected from over milking.
The dairy cows are severely overweight.
The dairy industry supports the veal industry.
Freshly born calves are ripped from their mother's wombs and placed in tiny cages where they are never allowed to move around-- not even turn around, they are prohibited from walking at all, so their "meat" stays tender as the day they were torn from their mother鈥檚 uterus.
The cattle industry is devastating to the environment on many levels.
Milk is a main contributor to our young people hitting puberty on an average of three years earlier than they did just 15 years ago. (Used to be average ages 11- 14-- now age 8 is becoming the new age for puberty).
Milk and meat industry are main contributors to underage obesity (well, that and a gross mixture of TV & junk food, you got yourself fat kids!)

oh, i could go on and on... but i won't.

dairy products are just gross-- say that!

Here are some points: If you do not want to be 6 foot 6 ,300 pounds and work hard all day without breaking a sweat. If you are scared a little bit of milk based products would mess up your stomach. If you are scared too many late night waffle chocolate pecan maple cones might make your figure a tad too bulky for ms twiggys summer catalog, then I suggest you move to siberia and become a poster child for a communist plot. Milk...It does a body good!

Milk has fat, cholesterol, hormones, antibiotics, and pus.

The calcium claims by the milk industry are bogus, as the excess protein in milk (and other animal products) actually strips calcium from your bones.

Cows' milk is meant for baby cows, not humans.

You've got some other good reasons here. Good luck with your speech!

the worst part about drinking milk is all the mucas it forms in your throat, gross.

Simply point out that nature intended milk to be consumed by baby animals, not grown humans. Some info on prevalence and symptoms of lactose intolerance would fit in as well.

maybe like how machines are used to force the cows into giving milk. or maybe like the drugs they give them to get more, better milk from them. im not really big on this stuff but i know both of those things.

Regular Milk at 4% fat, has 64% of the fat content is saturated fat. That is about the same or worse than beef fat.

At that percentage, its really bad for the arteries for those susceptible to arterial blockages.

Most nuts are only about 16-20% saturated fat, about the same as 1% (skim) milk.

search milk sucks. All the info you need is there. Good Luck on your speech!

Check out notmilk.com

Some of what they have there seems a little out there lol but its a good start ! :)