Before we start this (and you know I love controversy!).. I am *not* debating my views.

[conuly]

Sorry. If you wish to know my feelings on the dairy industry, there is one site on my links list which should make the point very clear, even if you never visit it.

I just have a question. Got that? No arguments over the merits of consuming dairy products or alternate sources of calcium or anything. Just a question.

How could anybody reasonably say that people have to drink milk to be healthy? No species could possibly evolve with a necessity for the milk of another species, or even their own species after a certain age. That's insane! We can't escape our evolution, and we haven't had domesticated animals long enough for us to evolve to need them. So, how is it justified to say we need milk? I'm actually curious here, not argumentative.

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Yeah, I've seen the anti-soy studies too. Again, I don't generally trust facts that are supported by "studies" unless there's a bit more to go on.

I do have a problem with people who see soy milk as a "replacement" for milk. Because why replace something you don't need in the first place? I drink far less soy milk than I drank cow milk when I did drink it, which already was almost none, as drinking dairy would often induce me to have asthma attacks and other general respiratory difficulty. (Asthma, incidentally, being one of my many afflictions which miraculousy disappeared when I stopped consuming dairy some time ago.)

But anyway, I think the idea of soy formula for infants, as mentioned at the end of that article, is just as silly as feeding them cow milk. Human milk is best for human infants, because it's designed for them and they for it.