Milk or No Milk?

I find drinking cow milk to be pretty odd. Especially since it is designed to nourish baby cows, who gain hundreds of pounds in the first year of their life!! I think the mere fact that there are so many people who are lactose intolerant/ have trouble with milk is a clear sign that it is not good for us.

ETA: On the idea of selling human breast milk at the stores. When they start doing that I would like a job at the dairy as a milker. I'll bring my own milking stool.

Yanno, you say that but most people who haven't had kids are generally completely squicked out by lactating breasts :P I know my husband was for quite a while after I had our daughter so...funny, but probably not totally true ;D


And I agree. I have switched to almond milk for the most part not because cow milk is unnatural, but because the production methods used do not create a healthy product in my mind. I will drink organic milk, however - but it's more expensive than almond milk.

What else would you put in your cereal?!

I do unsweetend almond milk.

If it's unnatural for humans to drink the milk of other mammals how even more unnatural is it to drink the milk of nuts? Find me another animal that drinks milk from almonds.

Milk from nuts ... Another good way to get some extra protein. ;-)

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ETA: On the idea of selling human breast milk at the stores. When they start doing that I would like a job at the dairy as a milker. I'll bring my own milking stool.

Yanno, you say that but most people who haven't had kids are generally completely squicked out by lactating breasts :P I know my husband was for quite a while after I had our daughter so...funny, but probably not totally true ;D


And I agree. I have switched to almond milk for the most part not because cow milk is unnatural, but because the production methods used do not create a healthy product in my mind. I will drink organic milk, however - but it's more expensive than almond milk.

No problem with lactating breasts. No problem at all. I have two kids. Been around lactation. Noooo problem. Not any. Nope. Still up for the job at the dairy.

Cows milk is the only milk closest to human milk. Soy milk, turns to estrogen in a males body, most men in general, but especially ones trying to lose weight don't want added estrogen in their body. Rice milk only contains one gram of protein per 8 oz compared to cows milk which contains 8, as well as rice milk is higher in carbs (30) than cows milk (11), as well as lower in calcium, rice milk has 20gms compared to 291gms in cows milk. The same can be said for almond milk, lower in fat and calories, also lower in calcium and protein by comperably the same as rice milk. But if you go with skim or 1% cows milk, you reduce the fat and calories while keeping the protein and calcium.

Almond milk does lack protein, but it is actually higher in calcium.

I find drinking cow milk to be pretty odd. Especially since it is designed to nourish baby cows, who gain hundreds of pounds in the first year of their life!! I think the mere fact that there are so many people who are lactose intolerant/ have trouble with milk is a clear sign that it is not good for us.

I've incorporated milk into my diet for a couple weeks. 1% low-fat milk. I have not gained a single pound, but I am losing at least half a pound a day. Now this may also be due to my intermittent fasting and 40% carbs, 40% protein, 20% fats split, but milk is not hindering my weight loss whatsoever. It is a good source of carbs and protein, with very low fat. People are lactose intolerant because of the government's banning of lactate, see, nature didn't **** up. There's a yin and yang to everything. Just like sodium without chlorine(salt) is poisonous to us. Lactate was banned because it seemed to mess with the breast milk of women. We would still have it, but there are those dumb *kitten* who ruin everything, just like in a classroom, if someone ****s up, everyone pays.

tl;dr - Milk is fine.

So sorry for this!

I think this might be a problem for people that have lost their connection with nature because they grew up in a western civilization with no contact to a animals. People that know meat only nicely wrapped in supermarket fridges. People that are disgusted once they see a whole fried calamari. (With tentacles lol) You can continues this list ...

No other animal on earth has thumbs or buckets with which to harvest the milk of other animals. Other animals will drink milk if it's provided to them. Cats and dogs have been known to drink milk at my house.

We are the only species that cooks meat before we eat it - maybe we should stop doing that. Lions don't cook meat. Rocky drank raw eggs, does that sound better to you than a couple of them over easy?

We are the only species that plant, raise and harvest the plants we eat - shall we go back to foraging for all of our food?

The list goes on.

I also got a big laugh out your putting forth this idea like you came up with it all by yourself. Someone brings this up several times a week on this forum and it's been out there for years and years. So congrats on coming up with a "new" idea all on your own.


ETA: On the idea of selling human breast milk at the stores. When they start doing that I would like a job at the dairy as a milker. I'll bring my own milking stool.

I am not only disgusted by the sight of squid, the taste nauseates me. On the whole, I prefer not to eat anything that has more limbs than I have.

- and as for calamari, battered rubber bands would have more flavour and identical texture

Look at nature (concerning herbivores). The young is born and they get their main source of fats and nutrients from theirs mothers milk for them to grow at an alarming rate. Once the young is of age of physiological maturity, the youngling is weened from its mother's milk, then it consumes its nutrients elsewhere with a low fat intake.

Here is the main mistake in your thought process imo.

Why is the "youngling" weened off?

It's not weened off because milk is bad for him. He is just big enough now to get his proteins and fats etc. by himself from another source. And the mother can go on live her own life again and produce more offspring.

If the "youngling" could continue forever to drink it's mother's milk it would do so. Even in nature.

Now look at human beings. When we are born we consume our mother's milk to get the gains that we need in mass and nutrition. Then we are weened from our mother's milk and then.....WE ARE TO DRINK ANOTHER SPECIES MILK!!

But it tastes great!

I drank milk right straight from a goat's tits. Tasted super yummy.

I think this might be a problem for people that have lost their connection with nature because they grew up in a western civilization with no contact to a animals. People that know meat only nicely wrapped in supermarket fridges. People that are disgusted once they see a whole fried calamari. (With tentacles lol) You can continues this list ...

I love the fact that most people freak out over tentacles. MORE CALAMARI FOR ME!!!!!