The studies that show problems with saturated facts lumped the man-made trans fats with natural saturated facts. These are not all the same. In fact, there are good trans fats, like CLA, which you find in grass-fed meats and milk. Equating these compounds with Crisco is just bad science. Saturated fats are an entire family of compounds. It's not just a single boogy-man out there. There are good and bad compounds that are in the family of saturated fats. The bad ones are damn near always man made.

Saturated fats are good to cook with, in fact, better than a mono-unsaturated in most cases because they are much more heat stable and don't oxidize. If you cook with a light olive oil, you'll end up producing all sorts of nasty oxides which are a much more detrimental than than any complaint you could have with naturally occurring saturated fats.

Of course, you don't care about this because you come from a 'fat is evil' paradigm, so that's all you see. We do not all believe what you do.

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As far as milk goes, I think there are probably good and bad aspects to it. It causes a big insulin response, which I'm not a fan of in most cases. Post workout, though, it's probably not too bad a deal. The cheap stuff is pretty dodgy with respect to what chemicals it might contain. If you get grass-fed milk, then it's pretty good stuff as long as you tolerate milk (cream top from Trader Joe's is a good option). Many people have trouble with digesting casein and if you do, then you should probably avoid it. At the end of the day, milk is very effective at making small mammals into big mammals. If you're a bodybuilder doing a mass gain, then you're hard-pressed to do better.