Humans are not designed to drink cows milk

True enough, however, I doubt that humans produce near as much saliva as calves do.

I'm not actually taking a stand against the consumption of milk but many people are so used to ingesting it that they'd never suspect it of causing them problems. I don't think it's a bad idea for people to try eliminating it for a few weeks to see if it makes a difference for them. I actually have a cow's milk hangover today as I ate a grotesque amount of greek pizza for dinner & then took the kids out for creemie's (Maple...mmmm) It was well worth it... but not on a daily basis.

What about beer? Humans were not "designed" to drink beer. Thank you Evolution!

People have been drinking beer for billions of years, I'm sure. With almonds for a bar snack.

This. Thank you for your support

Oh, you're welcome, OP. Maybe you should learn a thing or two about the timeline of human evolution, though. And evolution in general.

Everyone knows that humans evolved hundreds of years before the dawn of history.

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If it were the ideal nutrition then why would so many mother's choose breastfeeding when it would be so simple to feed cow's milk instead which we (human's) must be designed to consume by this point in time???

Not sure if serious.

Most baby formulas are made from cows milk. Wasn't that long ago that breastfeeding was scarce in western society with virtually all babies being formula fed.

Kids can switch to drinking regular milk once they start moving and getting nutrition from other foods as well. The big reason to avoid it before that is that cows milk is a good bit more calorically dense than human milk.

"We are the only species that willingly drinks milk from another species and after infancy."

My dogs and cat "willingly" drink cow's milk if I spill it on the floor. My dogs and cat would never "willingly" climb into my car, turn the key, shift the trans and drive it...Maybe we need to reconsider automobiles as well?

That's why I only drink almond milk. It has fixed all my flatulence problems. Give it a try!

Almond milk is kind of nasty to drink so I only use it for cooking. Hazelnut milk is where it's at! I have some right now in my coffee... bliss

In the US, products may not be labeled organic if they contain GMO.

They can contain "trace" amounts of GMOs according to USDA, I've yet to find an agreed upon number. 0.9% to 5%, so I've heard. Not saying you're wrong, or that I even care, just throwing out the info.

What about beer? Humans were not "designed" to drink beer. Thank you Evolution!

Well during the plagues of the middle ages and before, heavy beer drinkers had a high survival rate since many of the plagues were water-borne, the alcohol in beer sterilizes it. Prior to modern sanitation, beer was about the safest thing you could drink.

Until very recent times (the advent of the automobile and TV/sofa combination) beer drinkers were being naturally selected for survival. Despite the unhealthy/dangerous side of beer, it does lead to an increase in procreation, hard to say if it is being naturally selected as a trait overall or not at the moment, but it definitely was for most of human's time drinking beer.

Every soy milk I've ever seen is made with organic soy beans, which means non-GMO.

They don't have to list it as "genetically modified". Genetic modification is a specific process, if they don't use that process, they don't have to call it that.

Unfortunately, genetically modified is actually a more precise method of creating new strains than what they were actually doing. What they would do was expose the seeds and seedlings to toxins, deliberately creating 'natural' mutations until it finally created herbicide-resistant one, through trial and error. You might actually be better off with a GMO variety. This was far more haphazard.

(And I'm pretty sure my uncle's farm wasn't commercially growing round-up resistant soybeans for nothing. They're used in something... given the prevelance of them in the farming industry, I'd say they're in a LOT of somethings.)

In the US, products may not be labeled organic if they contain GMO.

Mutations aren't and don't have to be labeled as a GMO.

GM in GMO is specifically "Genetically Modified", a process that deliberately introduces changes to the DNA.

On the other hand, mutogenesis (intentional mutation breeding) does NOT have to be labeled GMO. Mutogenesis is WAY more trial and error and haphazard than than GMO production.

A GMO it is produced through the process of biotech firms genetically engineering a food through intentional DNA intervention. On the other hand, they can play Russian roulette with "natual" mutations (even if they are produced by exposure to substances likely to cause mutations) all they want without such a label, because they aren't specifically intervening with the DNA. It just "happened"... with a whole lot of help).

So, yes, GMO's are disallowed in 'organic'.

Hybrids created through deliberate (and equally as interventionist) mutogenesis are allowed (especially since most --in excess of 90% -- of commercially available wheat falls into this category)

What about beer? Humans were not "designed" to drink beer. Thank you Evolution!

Well during the plagues of the middle ages and before, heavy beer drinkers had a high survival rate since many of the plagues were water-borne, the alcohol in beer sterilizes it. Prior to modern sanitation, beer was about the safest thing you could drink.

Until very recent times (the advent of the automobile and TV/sofa combination) beer drinkers were being naturally selected for survival. Of course nowadays if does lead to an increase in procreation.

You're just a cornucopia of facts, aren't you? A veritable encyclopedia. jk

So corn fed beef is another myth?

There is no such thing as almond (or soy) milk. Milk comes from mammals. It should be called almond drink.

1 milk noun \ˈmilk\
Definition of MILK

1
a : a fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young; especially : cow's milk used as a food by humans
b : lactation <cows in milk>
2
: a liquid resembling milk in appearance: as
a : the latex of a plant
b : the juice of a coconut composed of liquid endosperm
c : the contents of an unripe kernel of grain

So now we're defining something by saying it resembles itself in the definition. Either that's BS or the English language has jumped the shark.

There is no such thing as almond (or soy) milk. Milk comes from mammals. It should be called almond drink.

1 milk noun \ˈmilk\
Definition of MILK

1
a : a fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young; especially : cow's milk used as a food by humans
b : lactation <cows in milk>
2
: a liquid resembling milk in appearance: as
a : the latex of a plant
b : the juice of a coconut composed of liquid endosperm
c : the contents of an unripe kernel of grain

So now we're defining something by saying it resembles itself in the definition. Either that's BS or the English language has jumped the shark.

Let's call margarine butter while we're at it

I have no issues having dominion over animals.

Ha!