Why do people eat cheese?

Question

It carries alot of diseases!

Answer 1

Wow. Cheese carries diseases. Hmmmmm, interesting.
What? Does it pack them up in a suitcase and just haul 'em around?

But seriously, OK, if you believe that than don't eat cheese but why the F does it bother you that others do. Really, don't you have more important things to think about?

And by the way, Cite your damn sources! You can't go around making blanket statements and NOT back them up.

Answer 2

Cheese was invented by nomadic shephards when they would carry milk in bags made of sheep's stomachs. The enzymes in the sheep stomach bags turned the milk into cheese, which the shepherds found to not only be tasty, but it also kept well and was a very filling meal, as cheese is high in fat and protein. From there, cheese making spread to other countries and became an art as well as a necessity for food. Cheese often saw people in colder climates through long harsh winters. People continue to eat it today because they think it tastes good. Now you can buy cheese made with vegetable rennet as well as many varieties of soy "cheese." And no type of cheese carries diseases unless it's been spoiled or contaminated. I don't know where you heard that from. Non-organic cheese does carry horomones and antibiotics though, as well as coming from abused cows so I reccomend you pay the extra for organic if you plan on eating cheese.

Answer 3

Cheese does not carry disease of any kind. Mad cow disease is a possbility, but in order for that to happen the cow has to have it, and dairy cows are notoriously difficult to milk while they are convulsing.

For those who say that organic vegetables aren't covered in animal dung, it's actually the other way around. Organic vegs are made exclusively with animal dung. It's the best non-chemical fertilizer there is.

All common white mushrooms, organic or not, are grown in manure. It's a fact of life.

Answer 4

I don't know if the cheese "carried" the disease, but my mom caught Salmonella in France, and they blamed it on eating unpasteurized cheese. Of course, I don't know why people eat lettuce or spinach, if you're going to think that way...how many people died from E. Coli on them?
Let's just stop eating everything. We won't get any diseases from our food, right?

Answer 5

What I found (keep in mind there are people whos ethics prevent them from eating cheese; and too much of anything including water *it can happen* is a bad thing):

In general, cheese supplies a great deal of calcium, protein, and phosphorus. A 30-gram (about one ounce) serving of cheddar cheese contains about seven grams of protein and 200 milligrams of calcium. Nutritionally, cheese is essentially concentrated milk: it takes about 200 grams (seven ounces) of milk to provide that much protein, and 150 grams to equal the calcium.

Cheese potentially shares milk's nutritional disadvantages as well. The Center for Science in the Public Interest describes cheese as America's number one source of saturated fat, adding that the average American ate 30 pounds (13.6 kg) of cheese in the year 2000, up from 11 pounds (5 kg) in 1970. Their recommendation is to limit full-fat cheese consumption to two ounces (60 grams) a week. Whether cheese's highly saturated fat actually leads to an increased risk of heart disease is called into question when considering France and Greece, which lead the world in cheese eating (more than 14 ounces (400 grams) a week per person, or over 45 pounds (20 kg) a year) yet have relatively low rates of heart disease. This seeming discrepancy is called the French Paradox; the higher rates of consumption of red wine in these countries is often invoked as at least a partial explanation.

Some studies claim to show that cheeses including Cheddar, Mozzarella, Swiss and American can help to prevent tooth decay.

A study by the British Cheese Board in 2005 to determine the effect of cheese upon sleep and dreaming discovered that, contrary to the idea that cheese commonly causes nightmares, the effect of cheese upon sleep was positive. The majority of the two hundred people tested over a fortnight claimed beneficial results from consuming cheeses before going to bed, the cheese promoting good sleep. Six cheeses were tested and the findings were that the dreams produced were specific to the type of cheese. None was found to induce nightmares. However, the six cheeses were all British. The results might be entirely different if a wider range of cheeses were tested.

Cheese is produced with casein, a substance that breaks down, when digested by humans, into several chemicals including casomorphine, an opiate. Cheese is (and, to a lesser extent, other dairy products are) therefore suspected by some to play a role in behavioral disorders among children, especially with regards to autism.

Some even go so far as to promote casein-free diets for everyone. It is also one of the reasons cited by some vegans for avoiding dairy as well as meat.

A number of food safety agencies around the world have warned of the risks of raw-milk cheeses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration states that soft raw-milk cheeses can cause "serious infectious diseases including listeriosis, brucellosis, salmonellosis and tuberculosis". It is U.S. law since 1944 that all raw-milk cheeses (including imports since 1951) must be aged at least 60 days. Australia has a wide ban on raw-milk cheeses as well, though in recent years exceptions have been made for Swiss Gruyère, Emmental and Sbrinz, and for French Roquefort.

Government-imposed pasteurization is, itself, controversial. Some say these worries are overblown, pointing out that pasteurization of the milk used to make cheese does not ensure its safety in any case.

This is supported by statistics showing that in Europe (where young raw-milk cheeses are still legal in some countries), most cheese-related food poisoning incidents were traced to pasteurized cheeses.

Pregnant women may face an additional risk from cheese; the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has warned pregnant women against eating soft-ripened cheeses and blue-veined cheeses, due to the listeria risk to the unborn baby.

Like pretty much everthing else we eat there are good things and bad things. The BEST thing to do is not to judge others for a personal decision.

Answer 6

like, what sort of diseases does it carry? because if memory serves, people just died from e.coli that was carried through spinach. I ve never heard of anyone dying from cheese.

Cheese has bacterial organisms just like yogurt, but the organisms that it "carries" are good bacteria. There is 'bad' bacteria and 'good' bacteria. Good bacteria is needed in our digestive system to help break down and process the foods we eat. Bad bacteria is something that isnt compatible with our digestive system, so the body will try to flush it out any way it can.

Answer 7

er...so do lots of things. if you had a better reason for this, i might make a point, but diseases???
it contains bacteria, but it contains good bacteria, and so do yeast (in bread), alcohol, and other dairy products.
if i ever became vegan, cheese would definitely be the hardest thing to give up. its like my fave food!!!

Answer 8

You carry the same 'diseases' in your intestines that cheese does. Go kill yourself and make the rest of us safe.

Answer 9

Why did your parents lie to you about cheese? Or maybe the question is ... why do you actually believe that cheese caries diseases, even if your parents did lie to you about that? Snap out of it and pay more attention in science and health class!

Answer 10

i think it has some bacteria but i dont think it any thing your body will fight off.
alot of things has disease but not really serious ones
some people eat mold cheese