Have you heard that almond milk uses loads of water, so is really bad for the environment?
Or that rainforests get chopped down to grow your soy beans for that soy milk?
These are distortions of the truth, designed to make cow’s milk sound better without actually using evidence. See the photo, and read on, a thread 🧵 #vegan
Yes, almond milk uses a lot of water. But compared to cows milk, it uses about half per glass of milk - and it has far fewer emissions and far less land use!
(I’d actually recommend avoiding almond milk and instead using one of the other plant milks)
It’s true that a lot of rainforest is cut down to grow soy beans. But the truth is, those beans are for *animal feed*. Most soy milk you can buy will clearly state on the label that it’s grown in Europe and not from a rainforest.
If you’re worried about land usage, soy milk still uses far less land than cows milk!
And if you’re worried about emissions, and your carbon footprint, then cows milk is by far the most dirty and polluting milk there is. You should try a plant based alternative!
Cow’s milk is for baby cows, not for humans.
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Milk is generally not for consumption of people over the age of 5.
About 70% of the population of the planet is lactose intolerant. Because it's natural. Lactose tolerance is the unusual thing, due to possible one group of people in Europe gaining tolerance due to scarcity of food.
Most people on the planet are lactose tolerance until around the age of 5, then its gone.
I've never been lactose intolerant but at some point I just noticed that I liked the *taste* of soy milk better-- because at the time I lived with someone who reacted badly to dairy milk.
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