The Exit Exam

Summer 2004 AnchorSet, 5-5 Essay

Topic: A product that people would be better off without. This topic was not selected for the Summer 2004 exam.

Every mother puts the idea of milk in their chidrens minds as a nessesary beverage for growing bones, teeth and body. Who came up with this idea? Did you realize that humans are the only animal to consume milk as adults? Some people do give it to the cats but it clogs their urinary tracts and eventually kills them according research. Milk is not a nessasary beverage for the body and can even harm some peoples helath. Not to mention, the way it is pasturised is extreemly gross. Advertisements always say how much calcium is in milk as well, but it is just a way to market it and sell it to make money. I believe that milk is a product that people would be better off without.

I don't think people realize how much fat really is in milk. It is 70% of the American diet and people wonder why they are so over-weight and unhealthy. Milk also causes complications like Lactos Intolerance, which I sadly obtained. This complication causes bloating, cramps, gas, severe diahrria and sometimes vomiting. This happens because the body cannot digest the milk sugar or lactos in your systems.

Do people honestly know how the milk is pasturised? People are led t think that all germs and bacteria in the milk is destroyed through the pasturization process. That is not always the case. Machines that are supposed to heat up the milk, are supposed to heat up to a certain boiling point to kill germs and bacteria left behind. Because their is such a strong demand for milk, the factories try to speed up the boiling process and do not get some milk to heat up to that recomended heating point. Another gross fact is that when the cows are being milked by the machines, the cows utters get irritated over time and time again that they are milked. It therefore forms blisters on the utters, which eventually burst and all the contents of that blister, is in the milk that people sadly drink.

The last reason to show why I think that milk is not a nessasary product for people is because of the false advertisement to the consumers. Milk is said to have an abundant source of calcium in it. That part is true, what isn't true is how it is supposed to do people any good without the source of magnesium. Calcium cannot be digested within the body without magnesium, and there is little to none in milk.

People have been brainwashed to think that milk is a nessasary product that they need as part of their diet, but I beg to differ. It is not something that could be better off without. It causes too many complications, it is pasturized in a gross way, and false advertisement says that it has calcium in it, when it really doesn't do anything for your body. Milk is not something that people need, so does milk really do a body good? That question is for people to decide on their own.

Comments:

[Score 5-5. (507w) There are multiple errors in this, but the strength lies in its message and voice, which is honest and strong. Many times, essays with clear messages, ideas that the writer actually feels strongly about, do well because of their honesty.]