Milk May Endanger Your Health, and the Dairy Industry Knows It

rBGH (Posilac) is banned in Europe, Canada and Australia because of its impacts on human and animal health.

It has however been extensively used in the USA for many years.

Monsanto sold their rBGH (Posilac) business to Elanco, a division of Eli Lilly in August 2008. It would therefore seem highly likely that much of American milk is still produced in this way.

As far as this article is concerned, I thought it was blatant nonsense.

Tony

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http://www.organicconsumers.org/rbghlink.cfm

# rBGH makes cows sick. Monsanto has been forced to admit to about 20 toxic effects, including mastitis, on its POSILAC label.
# rBGH milk is contaminated by pus, due to the mastitis commonly induced by rBGH, and antibiotics used to treat the mastitis.
# rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of a natural growth factor (IGF-1), which is readily absorbed through the gut.
# Excess levels of IGF-1 have been incriminated as a cause of breast, colon, and prostate cancers.
# IGF-1 blocks natural defense mechanisms against early submicroscopic cancers.

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Back in the days when small farms were the milk, cream and butter source for dairy/creamery business we were very careful not to send milk tainted by mastitis/milk fever to market. With the factory farms you lose that ability because they just slap those vacuum cups onto the udders and everything goes into the milk tubes. GROSS!!!

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The point that should have been made in this article is the twisted approach to food safety. Because a huge industry is involved, the burden of proof is on proving that A1 milk is less safe than A2 milk.

There is a great deal of information indicating that A1 milk is associated with severe chronic disease, but the milk industry doesn't want definitive studies done. They don't need to worry, though, because the so-called RCT trial isn't likely to happen, since no sane parent would willingly take part without knowing which of the two groups his or her child was in. Who would willingly place a child in the A1 group?

The onus should be on those who want to produce A1 milk. They should have to prove the safety of their product - especially when there's a safe alternative. It's known which cows produce A1 milk - later breeds, ones that are more profitable for the industry - as opposed to the husbandry - of milk. The Holstein breed produces A1 milk. (There are probably others, also among the newer breeds.) That is one that massive milk manufacturers use, and it's why A1 milk is prevalent in America. It's also why there's a fight to continue to allow its production.

Holstein cattle were developed later than more pure breeds, and were chosen because of their high productivity. Factory milk producers aren't interested in the health of their product, but only in its profitability.

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The comments from the Dairy Industry are hilarous. Dairy products are detrimental to our health, no question about it. Hormones, fat, bacteria . . . MMMM mmmm not so good.

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How does small farm locally produced raw milk fit into any of this? Thanks for any information anyone can provide. Peace.

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A1, A2, rBGH--all of it is moot when you consider that the idea of consuming the milk of another species is gross and not seen anywhere in nature. Not to mention that no other species consumes milk past the age of weaning.

AND, in order for us to have milk of any kind means removing baby offspring from their mothers, cruelly depriving the offspring of natural development and weaning (and, in the case of cattle, often the further cruelty of being confined and "raised" as veal) and cruelly forcing their bereft mothers to continue providing milk to machines.

Cows' milk is the perfect food for baby calves, period. Goats' milk is the perfect food for baby goats; sheep's milk is the perfect food for baby lambs; and the rest of us should just grow up and wean ourselves off the stuff.

Peace.

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My understanding is that the pasteurization process warps the structure of milk proteins so that they create an intolerance in the system.

Homogenization, as I understand it, makes the fat globules smaller and more absorbable into the system which does us no good.

I would prefer raw milk and products from grass fed cows as it is higher in CLA, Omega-3s and nutritionally superior to the white chalky stuff Big Dairy sells.

The A1 vs. A2 controversy is interesting. I wonder how milk processing affects this protein and if there is any additive effect when A1 is combined with other insults to the body's biochemistry like vaccines...

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A question I find myself asking often. What are they doing? Where are they?

No doubt lobbying Congress for more money to do little to keep our food supply safe, while Monsanto lobbies Congress for favors so they can keep on adding more chemicals to the food supply.

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Another food to beware of? Maybe ignorance IS bliss....

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anytime new information comes out against any BIG industry, its gonna be "controversial", and thus vilified.

personally, i try not to let this kind of information affect me too much. i have an eating disorder and if i reacted to this kind if information everytime it read about it i would stop eating altogether...well...ive done that went to treatment for a year for it.

you have to take all this with a grain of salt.

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Our world is very different now. Our health is now threatened by different elements present in our food/drinks. The processing or production of all our food now is very different from our ways before. With that reason, our health is greatly affected that may result to much more serious diseases.

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Alternet has posted so many obvious over the top veggie and vegan articles, it is hard to determine whether or not this has any credibility. You obviously have an agenda. If you had been more reasonable all along, more folks would take this seriously.

All I know is that since I started drinking organic milk again because I have a few stores within walking distance, my fingernails have taken off. Which means my bones and teeth are probably benefiting as well. Heart disease I do not fear. Heart attack is my first choice in exiting, it fits my personally to a T. No prolonged suffering, but warning enough to alert my soul of the transition. Autism I am not worried about at my age. Everything is pegged as causing diabetes, and if my large hips protect me, Pharma will just lower the blood sugar numbers again to make sure I have it. Schizophrenia? I thought the government causes that!!!

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I have never in my entire life seen my mother drink a glass of milk. She's now 55 years old and already has dentures, as well as osteoporosis in her arms and back.

I'll take an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes to that anyday. Considering I run 4 or 5 times a week, I don't think my risk is all that high for either disease.

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First of all, it is only a small group of investigators who are trying to make the argument that A1 causes problems. Think N-rays, cold fusion and similar events.

Second, when people who know what they are doing investigate they find no difference in effects. Brit J Nut Jan 2006 reports that what the country comparison was actually finding was that northern countries with less Vit D from decreased sun exposure were finding increased diabetes. Lack of Vit D is an established risk factor for type I diabetes.

Another study found that the initial analysis had not been done correctly and when the analysis was redone and more countries were added, there was no difference Eur J of Clin Nutr author AS Truswell

A British study where 25 grams (the equivalent of more than a liter of milk per day) of either A1 or A2 were given daily to people at risk of CHD (coronary heart disease) for 12 weeks that there was no difference in serum cholesterol, insulin levels homocysteine c-reactive protein, fibrinogen, proteins C and S, von Willebrand factor, endothelial cell function, blood pressure, and arterial wall stiffness.

Another study reported in Atheroscelerosis Sep 2006 used 55 people who were given first either A1 or A2 and after 4 1/2 weeks were switched to the other. There was no difference of total cholesterol, LDL or HDL.

The reports of metabolic products being found at higher levels in autistic and schizophrenic patients indicates that they are producing it themselves and not getting it from milk. Otherwise their symptoms would go away if they went off milk assuming that milk was causing the problem. You don't pass metabolic degradation products of something you ingested years ago. They're passed in the next couple days after digestion.

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This reminds me of the Ford Pinto when a corporation decides that it would be cheaper to kill people than to change a part, in this case a part under $2.00 , that would have saved them from dying or being maimed from a fiery rear impact. The actuaries I think told Ford it would be less expensive to fight the lawsuits for the deaths or injuries than to put the part in every Pinto.

So here we have the dairy industry which could change it's herds over to what may be a safer type of dairy cow and they don't see the merit in it. From what I understand these types of cows do not last very long because they are used up rather quickly because the are constantly forced to produce milk and that when their production begins to falter they are slaughtered.

So rather than take a prudent health approach they would rather take a roll of the dice after all it's our health that may be at risk and not theirs.

I am at the point where whether you drink milk or not this industry apparently cares little for their customers just like tobacco. I guess they need to get in line with all the rest of the corporations which could care less as long as the dollars still flow to them.

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Regarding veganism vs. vegetarianism, man is the only species that drinks the milk of another species. All other species drink the milk of the mothers of their own species until they are weaned. Cow's milk is the perfect food--IF you're a baby calf!

To mass produce cow's milk on a large scale via factory farming, cows have to be kept continually pregnant, giving birth, and lactating. The cows are genetically bred to produce excess cow's milk for humans. Male cows (bulls) are useless to the dairy industry, so they become veal. By supporting the dairy industry, one indirectly supports cow killing.

One of the first books I read on the subject of vegetarianism while in college was A Vegetarian Sourcebook by Keith Akers (1983). Describing the environmental damage caused by raising animals for food: topsoil erosion, deforestization, loss of groundwater, etc. as well as the economic inefficiency and waste of energy and resources in raising animals for food in an age of exploding human population growth, Keith Akers foreshadowed John Robbins' Diet for a New America (1987), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

In A Vegetarian Sourcebook, Keith Akers writes:

"Using grasslands for livestock agriculture creates great environmental problems, which greatly limit its usefulness. Grazing systems require ten times more land than feedlot agriculture, in which animals are simply given feed grown on cropland. Grazing systems have to be extensive in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of overgrazing--which renders a piece of land unsuitable for any purpose.

"Overgrazing and the consequent soil erosion are extremely serious problems worldwide. By the most conservative estimates, 60% of all U.S. rangelands are overgrazed, with billions of tons of soil lost each year. Overgrazing has also been the greatest cause of man-made deserts.

"Even if we grant grazing a role in a resource-efficient, ecologically stable agriculture, milk should be the end result, not beef. Milk provides over 50% of the protein and nearly four times the calories of beef, per unit of forage resources from grazing.

"'When only forage is available, then egg, broiler and pork production are eliminated and only milk, beef, and lamb production are viable systems,' state David and Marcia Pimentel, scientists and authors of Food, Energy and Society. 'Of these three, milk production is the most efficient.'

"An ecologically stable, resource-efficient system of grazing animals for human food could not be anything faintly resembling today's livestock agriculture. It would be a smaller, decentralized, less intensive system of animal husbandry devoted to milk production."

So it may be possible to have animal agriculture (devoted solely to milk production) on a small scale--like the Amish. But the rest of humanity, with an exploding population in the billions, will have to be vegan.

According to the editors of World Watch, July/August 2004: "The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future--deforestization, topsoil erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease."

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, similarly says: "...the survival of our planet depends on our sense of belonging--to all other humans, to dolphins caught in dragnets to pigs and chickens and calves raised in animal concentration camps, to redwoods and rainforests, to kelp beds in our oceans, and to the ozone layer."

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Both my grandparents and my parents were farmers--dairymen in fact. I grew up on our dairy farm and we all freely induged in dairy products: whole milk, butter, cream, cheeses.

Milk must be a really slow poison, because both my grandparents lived into their nineties and were healthy up to the end. My dad passed away at 92 and was actively farming the day he died. I drink all the milk and use dairy products as much as I want. Pushing sixty and it hasn't affected me yet.

Another ridiculous alarmist article from the "food cult" at Alternet.

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A quick gander at the abstracts available on PubMed shows the potential for harmful effects of the alternate form of the protein to correlate also with high latitude, amongst other things (vitamin D deficiency, for example, if you enjoy things that confoud your purist, creationist view of the world around you).

Thus, you might as well have penned an expose re: the effects of being 'from Iceland'.

Or, correlation does not equal causation:

As the average number of pirates in the world decreased, the average temperature increased*. Thus, an abundance of Pirates cooled the Globe! Yay!

*borrowed from the Gospel According To the FSM

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-the more you read about milk&cheese,you come to the conclusion that Dairy is truly a weapon of mass destruction:fecal bacteria,dead white pus cells,leukemia&TB viruses++
- for scientific docs on the dangers of dairy consumption, please go to:
www.notmilk.com
-watch John McDougall, MD's'Marketing Milk and Disease' -google video 43:16
http://tinyurl.com/kjozpt

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...why drink processed cow's milk when there's something that's better for most people's health, much better for the ecosystem than dairy farming, and tastes better than processed cow's milk?

If you're not yet aware of the nutritional benefits of Cannabis hemp seed, then look into it to realize that hemp is nutritionally unique and essential. The only common seed with three essential fatty acids, Cannabis is also the best available source of organic vegetable protein on Earth.

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Why isn't the government telling you this, instead of just some hemp fanatic blogging into the wind? Because "they" are not on our team. Look at the warmongering, radical economic disparity and racism that continue to define contemporary American politics. Despite endless rhetoric propping up people's naive hopes with empty optimism, "drug war" inertia is carrying us further into endless wars leading to global extinction.

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The real question is, how can people continue to accept the prohibition of Cannabis when there are so many reasons to be growing it and time is running out? How bad do things have to get before all solutions are considered?

Hemp seed milk is the healthiest drink on Earth, and tastes great. There does not have to be malnutrition anywhere. Hemp seed has no growth hormones, no mutant A1 genes, doesn't require pasteurization, and contains natural preservatives in the form of antioxidants. Every one could be growing hemp seed, fresh, alive and fertile. We could all be making seed milk, ice cream, yogurt, and cheese at home if we wanted to. It's easy to grow and it's easy to eat.

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Drinking milk helps gain muscle and lose fat after exercise

High Dairy Diet Accelerates Weight Loss and Loss of Fat

So to those saying only calves should drink cow's milk, you need to read more scientific studies and research.

Dairy is very beneficial for humans.

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In places like the Ozarks there are a number of dairy farmers who are using intensive grazing practices. A lot of land, like in the Ozarks, is not appropriate for row crops and best left in permanent vegetative cover. These grass based dairymen have way lower production costs than their conventional counterparts. A lot of what they are doing comes from New Zealand, a leader in dairying. The dairy industry is going thru a big shakeout and we may see 30% fewer dairy farmers next year. The efficient, well capitalized and sustainable will survive. Another benefit from the grass based dairies is they improve the soil and, when managed properly, surrender few nutrients to their watersheds. As long as there is a demand for milk there will be producers. We need to encourage more dairymen to come to the Ozarks and be a part of this sustainable dairy movement.

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I quit drinking milk before I was out of my teens, but I still LOVE ice cream.
Does this mean my ears might fall off any day, or that my face will become grotesquely deformed?
I'm in agreement with Wierd Al Yankovich, who sang;
"I love Rocky Road
Go to the store and
Get a half gallon".
"And if I get fat and lose my teeth that's fine with me."
Besides, I'm almost 70, anyway.

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First off, I support any article that questions today's food system. However, I am skeptical about this article for a few reasons (not withstanding the dubious financial/marketing history of the A2 company in New Zealand). Firstly, factory farming is horrible, unhealthy, and in fact unnecessary. However, local dairy farmers (which are many) should not be lumped into this category as most practice traditional methods and provide live (raw), grass fed milk free from drugs. Accordingly, regardless of genetic makeup, the milk will be significantly superior. As with human beings, our daily diet has as much if not greater impact in quality/length of life than what my parents passed along. In other words, one can agree on both points as A1 may be inferior, but so are A2 cows if processed in factory farm type conditions.

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Excuse me but for the functionally illiterate who believe the above statement, may I introduce you to a cat and a dog? When I defend my cereal bowl by pouring a little milk on the tile floor, all the cats congregate like piranhas. And then there are the pigs that used to make a good living off the whey, a byproduct from cheese making.

The fact that humans have been milking cows since before recorded history means that by now we have largely adapted. Those who are repulsed need to think about the roots coming out of the ground that they eat, the cherries and strawberries with bird doo all over them, the leafy vegetables with caterpillar droppings all over them not to mention the insect eggs and dead insects that are incorporated with them. After all, vegetables are responsible for more cases of food poisoning than meat products are according to the CDC records of chasing down food poisoning outbreaks.

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I'm apparently going to die of swine flu anyway, but I've heard you can filter out this protein from your milk by using the tinfoil hat on your head. Is that true?

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First off, I support any article that questions today's food system. However, I am skeptical about this article for a few reasons (not withstanding the dubious financial/marketing history of the A2 company now located in New Zealand). Firstly, factory farming is horrible, unhealthy, and in fact unnecessary. However, local dairy farmers (which are many) should not be lumped into this category as most practice traditional methods and provide live (raw), grass fed milk free from drugs. Accordingly, regardless of genetic makeup, the milk will be significantly superior. As with human beings, our daily diet has as much if not greater impact in quality/length of life than what my parents passed along. In other words, one can agree on both points as A1 may be inferior, but so are A2 cows if processed in factory farm type conditions. As for humans being the only mammal that drinks another’s milk, well not sure how objective this idea is when in fact the animal kingdom is replete with mammals eating all parts of other mammals, not to mention the millions of human beings that would not be alive today if were not for bottled milk as a baby. Again, I do not agree with factory farming and maybe there is a difference between A1 vs A2 cows, but these two issues do not conflict with the reality of traditionally prepared dairy that hundreds of millions of human beings have thrived upon

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www.nomilk.com
www.notmilk.com
No one Needs MIlk!
Its mere marketing for those easy manipulated ones

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"...a growing body of research implicates A1 beta-casein in diabetes, heart disease, autism and schizophrenia."

This might explain why half of the U.S. population believe in grandiose paranoid delusional fantasies.

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I thought it was a good article, and the first time I've seen something (published) on the subject.

However, from a New Zealand friend (she's a medical doctor & nutritionist), I heard that the chief problem of this casein protein was with Friesian cattle, which are popular with milk producers for efficiency of production reasons. That the (competing) alternative, in NZ was Jersey cattle, which produced a superior milk, but at only ~ 10% of the production figures for Friesian.

That the NZ goverment sued a farmer who alluded to these issues in his promotion of his business.

From Wiki: "The Holstein (US and Canada) or Friesian (UK, Australia, Europe) is a breed of dairy cow known today as the world's highest production dairy animal. Originating in Europe, Holsteins were developed in what is now the Netherlands and more specifically in the two northern provinces of North Holland and Friesland (not from Holstein, Germany[citation needed]). The original animals were the regional cattle of the Batavians and Frisians, two tribes who settled in the coastal Rhine region around 2,000 years ago.

The Dutch breeders bred and oversaw the development of the breed with the aim of obtaining animals which would make best use of grass, the area's most abundant resource. The result, over the centuries, was an efficient, high-producing black-and-white dairy cow. It is black and white due to artificial selection by the breeders.

With the growth of the new world, markets began to develop for milk in America, and dairy breeders turned to The Netherlands for their livestock. After about 8,800 Holsteins had been imported, disease problems in Europe led to the cessation of imports.[1]

In Europe, the breed is used for milk in the North, meat in the South - Since 1945, European development has led to cattle production becoming increasingly regionalized. Over 60% of the cattle herd and under 50% of the usable agricultural area, but over 80% of dairy production, is to be found to the north of a line joining Bordeaux and Venice. This change led to the need for specialized animals for dairy (and beef) production. Until this time, milk and beef had been produced from dual-purpose animals, and the leading breeds, national derivatives of the Dutch Friesian, had become very different animals from their American counterparts. It was the obvious choice to import superior production animals to cross with the European black and whites. For this reason, in modern usage of the word Holstein is used to describe North American stock and its use in Europe. Friesian, denotes animals of a traditional European ancestry. Crosses between the two are described by the term Holstein-Friesian."

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I think it may

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I have never read 1 article on alternet that did not have a comment from someone on pot or hemp. Like this article on milk for god's sake. All they do is cheapin alternet in general and make it look it is written by and for 50 year old pot heads, AKA Oldheads.

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It is amazing how one person can make a discovery,publicize it, and people immediately choose sides and start a controversial battle. I guess this is one of the things that make us different from other animals. I myself, quit drinking milk for my own reasons. I quit a lot of other things too. I don't find it necessary to force those reasons one someone else. I suppose it is natural for an individual to be frightened of something and then feel the need to find some allies that will sooth and calm ones fears by agreeing with him/her. I see people becoming sarcastic and downright angry with other people for not agreeing them on a given subject. We tend to lose sight of another ones individuality. If you like to drink cow's milk because you find no harm in it, and that it tastes good, please drink it with my blessing. But please don't try to convince me, after I have made it my choice not to drink it. Then again, if we all just made our own choices and didn't try to force them on others, we wouldn't have these wonderfully entertaining forums. I do find it entertaining to see someone trying to convince another, that Russian roulette is safe and fun.

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.... for consistently excellent coverage of food issues. The emerging "politics of food" as a serious concern for the health and well-being of the planet and all it's inhabitants, is an issue that deserves coverage that is almost totally lacking, on any other "general news" source.

I'm also happily surprised by the general thoughtfulness and civil discourse, on this comments thread.
So far, not a wing-nut conspiracy theorist to be found. :)

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There is a great deal of information indicating that A1 milk is associated with severe chronic disease, but the milk industry doesn't want definitive studies done. They don't need to worry, though, because the so-called RCT trial isn't likely to happen, since no sane parent would willingly take part without knowing which of the two groups his or her child was in. Who would willingly place a child in the A1 group?

The onus should be on those who want to produce A1 milk. They should have to prove the safety of their product - especially when there's a safe alternative. It's known which cows produce A1 milk - later breeds, ones that are more profitable for the industry - as opposed to the husbandry - of milk. The Holstein breed produces A1 milk. (There are probably others, also among the newer breeds.) That is one that massive milk manufacturers use, and it's why A1 иркутский авиазавод the big bang theory субтитры heroes субтитры seropol5 milk is prevalent in America. It's also why there's a fight to continue to allow its production.

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