10 facts about dairy milk

We are hit with so much propaganda about the "need" to drink cow milk that many Americans uncritically believe it. To follow up on an article I once wrote about all the dairy hype ("The Land of Milk and Money"), I offer this more recent article listing "10 Fascinating Facts About Cow Milk." And yes, most of the world's adults are lactose intolerant. It is not even possible for them to drank milk. We milk-drinkers are the unusual ones. Actually, I'm mostly there. I put soy milk on my cereal, but I still do enjoy ice cream. But I don't consume milk products for the calcium. I know that there are other ways to get calcium.

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Big banks complicit with online payday lenders.

Big banks are providing the funds for online payday lenders. This story from the NYT is not the least bit surprising, not that it makes this article any less disturbing.

While the banks, which include giants like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, do not make the loans, they are a critical link for the lenders, enabling the lenders to withdraw payments automatically from borrowers’ bank accounts, even in states where the loans are banned entirely. In some cases, the banks allow lenders to tap checking accounts even after the customers have begged them to stop the withdrawals.
The article indicates that without the backing of the big banks, many of these payday lenders would cease to exist.

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