In our daily lives, most of us consume milk either from the local milk vendors or from the dairy farms, either in tea, coffee or even as such. Indiscriminate use of oxytocin on cows and buffaloes is rampant in our country even in villages and in dairy farms because of its easy accessibility. No matter how illiterate a milkman is, he knows very well what is oxytocin and where to get it and for what purpose it is used. These people inject this hormone into these animals with greed with a mistaken belief that it yields more milk which is not the fact.
It only makes the milk to flow faster but does not increase the quantity of milk. Effect of consumption of such hormone injected milk on human health is still being debated. Some say that there is harm in consuming such milk. It is said that the hormone in it is metabolized rapidly into inactive compounds, as it is degraded in the gut by the…
