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.

Comments

[squittycat.livejournal.com]

I've found that the Silk and Vitasoy brands are most palatable to people who prefer the taste of cow milk, and both are available at many grocery stores. Make sure you get the Vitasoy that's marketed to "Westerners" ... the type marketed to Asians (You'll know it from the square boxy-box with Chinese markings all over to it) is probably of the type that "makes you wanna hurl." Remember, though, that many people feel like hurling when they drink cow milk! Anyway, Vitasoy in the tall, milk-carton-looking carton is nice and creamy; give it a try. Again, Silk is fine too, but there's a rumor that it's manufactured by the Dairy Industry so that they can continue to make money off people who don't buy dairy products. Dunno if it's true... I don't drink the stuff anyway. :)

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

Silk turns my stomach. I was tempted to try their vanilla and other flavors, but their plain was unsettling enough. :-/

[squittycat.livejournal.com]

Hmm then. Don't know if Vitasoy will appeal to you then, because the Silk brand always struck me as less "offensive" than say, what you'd get in Chinatown, which had traditionally been my exposure to soymilk, being of partial Chinese descent. Hard to compare the Silk with the Vitasoy, though. Couldn't hurt to try, I suppose.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

I will have to ask my local favorite coffeeshop what brand they have. I tried a sip of it, and it wasn't that bad.