The American people love their dairy products, and they are hard to avoid since they are widely used as ingredients in pizza, hamburgers, baked potatoes, casseroles, desserts, cereals, Mexican dishes, bakery products, and milk drinks. Dairy products are a good source of nutrients, including: protein, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, fats, and vitamins. However, the source of dairy products, cows milk, also usually continue the following bad ingredients: casein, rbST (bovine growth hormone), other hormones, saturated fat, cholesterol, dioxins, antibiotics, bacteria, lactose (sugar), and anything on the food that the cows consume (herbicides, pesticides, feces, urine, etc.).

Following are the health risk of consuming a diet high in dairy products:

• heart disease

• obesity

• cancer

• leukemia

• diabetes

• crohn's disease

• allergies

• digestive problems

• glaucoma

• multiple sclerosis

• auto-immune diseases

• constipation

• canker sores

• peptic ulcer disease

• ulcerative colitis

• asthma

• rheumatoid arthritis

• lupus

• eczema

• parkinson's disease

• fatigue

• SIDS

• artherosclerosis

The U.S. dairy industry is a $50 billion dollar a year business and it uses aggressive marketing campaigns. Remember the ads with the white moustache? The industry is organized into co-ops with over 50% of all the dairy processing in the U.S. controlled by 5 huge co-ops. Government intervention in the dairy markets have been common because of anti-trust violations related to dominate companies control the prices. The latest anti-trust violation in the U.S. was in 2009 against the major dairy industry players.

Following are the dairy companies and products that should be boycotted by all Americans for both health and political reasons:

• Dean Foods Company - Alta Dena, Apro Soya, Arctic Splash, Atlanta Dairies, Barber’s, Barbe’s, Belsoy, Berkeley Farms, Borden (licensed), Broughton, Brown Cow, Brown’s Dairy, Bud’s Ice Cream, Chug, Country Charm, Country Churn, Country Delite, Country Fresh, Country Love, Creamland, Dairy Fresh, Dean’s, Dipzz, Fieldcrest, Foremost (licensed), Garelick Farms, Gandy’s, Golden Guernsey, Hershey’s (licensed), Horizon Organic, Hygeia, International Delight, Jilbert, Land O’Lakes (licensed), Land-O-Sun, Lehigh Valley, Liberty, Louis Trauth, Maplehurst, Mayfield, McArthur, Meadow Brook, Meadow Gold, Mile High, Morning Glory, Mountain High, Nature’s Pride, Nurture, Oak Farms, Organic Cow, Over the Moon, Pet (licensed), Pog (licensed), Price’s, Provamel, Purity, Rachel’s Organic, Reiter, Robinson, Saunders, Schenkel’s All Star, Schepps, Sealtest (licensed), Shenandoah’s Pride, Silk, Skinny Cow, Stroh’s, Swiss Dairy, Swiss Premium, and TG Lee.

• Kraft Foods - Kraft, Philadelphia, Velveeta, Cheez Whiz, Breakstone’s, Knudsen, Cracker Barrel, Polly-O, Churny, and Athenos.

• Land O'Lakes Inc. - Land O’Lakes, Alpine Lace, New Yorker, Naturally Slender.

• Krogers Co. Dairy Operations - Kroger, Private Selection.

• Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream - Dreyer’s, Edy’s, Häagen-Dazs, Nestlé, Frosty Paws, Eskimo Pie, Delicias, The Skinny Cow.

• Dairy Farmers of America - Borden Cheese, Cache Valley Cheese, Borden Butter, Keller’s, Hotel Bar, Sport Shake.

• Unilever Ice Cream - Breyers, Popsicle, Klondike, Good Humor.

• Yoplait - Yoplait, Colombo, Nouriche.

• The Dannon Co. - Activia, DanActive, Danimals, Dannon, Dan-o-nino, Light & Fit.

• Wells' Dairy Division - Blue Bunny, Weight Watchers.

• Safeway Dairy Division - Lucerne, O Organics, Eating Right, Creamery Fresh, JerseyMaid.

• Sargento Foods Inc. - Sargento, MooTown, Portionables.

• ConAgra Foods Inc. - Dorman’s, Healthy Choice, Reddi-wip, Blue Bonnet, Fleischmann’s, Parkay, Snack Pack, Squeez ‘n Go Hershey’s.

• Blue Bell Creameries - Blue Bell.

• Braum's Ice Cream Co. - Braum's.

• Hershey Creamery Co. - Hershey's Ice Cream.

• Celebration Foods LLC. - Carvel, M&M’s, Snickers, Cinnabon.

• YoCream International - YoCream, Fruitquake, Jolly Rancher, Jarritos, Bubble Yum, Twizzlers.

• Nestles products - Alpo, Baby Ruth, Beneful, Bit-O-Honey, Bottle Caps, Butterfinger, Cat Chow, Chunky, Caffee-Mate, Croissant Pockets, Dog Chow, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Gobstoppers, Goobers, Hi Pro, Hot Pockets, Kibbles, Lean Cuisine, Mighty Dog, Moist & Meaty, Nerds, Nescafe, Nestea, Carnation, Toll House, Oh Henry, Ortega, Pixy Stix, Powerbar, Pro Plan, Purina, Raisinets, Runts, Sno-caps, Spree, Stouffers, Sweetarts, Taste's Choice, Tender Vittles, Tidy Cats, Wonda, 100 Grand.

• General Mills products - Betty Crocker, Bisquick, Green Giant, Haagen-Dazs, Hamburger Helper, Jeno's Pizza, Old El Paso, Pillsbury, Progresso, Totino's Pizza, Yoplait yogurt, Colombo yogurt, Bugles, Chex Mix, Gold Medal Flour, Nature Valley Granola Bars, Fruit Roll-Ups, Pop Secret popcorn, Cheerios, Boo Berry, Chex, Cocoa Puffs, Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Toast Crunch, Golden Grahams, Honey Nut Cheerios, Kix, Lucky Charms, Raisin Nut Bran, Reese's Puffs, Total cereal, Trix cereal, Wheaties, Fiber One.

• Unilever products - Ben and Jerry's, Breyers, Bertolli, Hellmann's, Imperial, Knorr, Lawry's, Lipton, Colman's, Country Crock, All, Axe, Brut, Dove, Caress, Lever 2000, Lux, Pepsodent, Close-Up, Degree, Comfort, Persil, Pond's, Q-Tips, Signal, Skip, Suave, Sun, Sure, Surf, Vaseline, Wisk, Popsicle, Fudgsicle, Ragu, Skippy, Slim-Fast, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.