What Milk Really Means
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Milk is often framed as natural and harmless, but its production depends on a cycle that begins with pregnancy and separation. For cows to produce milk, they must give birth. Their calves, who would naturally rely on that milk, are typically removed shortly after. This is not an exception; it is standard practice across the dairy industry.
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Plant-based alternatives offer a different path. They meet the same nutritional needs without requiring that cycle of separation and loss. Choosing plant milk is not only a dietary decision, it is an ethical one. It reflects a simple recognition that what is taken from animals was never ours to begin with.
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The milk is laced with the grief the mother feels at separation. How much depression is caused by that alone?
Not to mention the hormones from lactation, a new pregnancy and the synthetic hormones. They all disrupt our hormones. Women are more affected and can find huge relief just by stopping dairy.
In addition, the calcium in milk is unavailable to us. Consider the high intake in the west and the high amount of osteoporosis. Yet in rural China, before they became westerised, they didn't consume dairy and had almost zero osteoporosis.
There is nothing ethical, moral or practical about consuming dairy.
Soy "milk" has more protein than cow's milk, and it comes in a variety of flavors.