Correct, we don't need milk. Our bodies don't need milk past baby-hood. It's why women when pregnant only lactate, milk is for babies and we produce our own. Oat milk, coconut milk now make good alternatives and it's caught on because it's not a base item for meal.
I mean, it's used with other ingredients to produce the same result and you the difference is satisfactory. Coffee with oat milk, coconut is still coffee without or with dairy milk.
However, those substitutes in itself don't allow you to produce other products where it can aid in human development as an example.
Drinking milk by itself can be bad, your body can have trouble digesting it. But when the milk is used to produce cheese, which produces fat, proteins which your body do require in moderate amounts of where do you source that?
Robbing a cow of it's milk is an ethical question and one which is very debatable. Has the cow consented to giving you it's milk, as to the same as taking a hen's egg for a fried egg?
Nuts, have the tree consented for you taking their cashew nuts, olive oil which we inhumanely abuse too; forestation and the rest.
One could argue that the true food source is yourself.
Butchering your arm and frying it is probably the most humane, un-cruel source of food you could eat. But you were produced by your parents so you better ask for their permission first.
It all comes down to your morals and where your compass sits.
Although in reality this is persuaded and manipulated by today's social constructs so not everyone has full working compass.
For me, if a cow produces excess amounts, and I can thank the cow before drinking the milk; turning that milk in to another food source that can benefit more. I feel that is satisfactory.
If they produce excess amounts, why waste it? Same with grapes, wine, nuts. They are all food providers and in excess. If I don't go in to greed. Start taking more than what's needed; I don't need cheese everyday, I don't need eggs every day, I don't see cruel.
It is cruel when it has to be produced extensively just to fuel the people who want it for greed or no purpose. If they need it more for their young, then it's theirs.
I can give back and just out of my own heart I do when I can. I'm very grateful for the sourced food I eat and I eat it in moderation. Alternatives do exist but when I desire such produce I ensure the best quality even if it costs.
Which it should, it shouldn't be cheap nor a commodity, but that itself raises the questions of what about those who can't afford quality foods -- should they go without?
I mean, it's used with other ingredients to produce the same result and you the difference is satisfactory. Coffee with oat milk, coconut is still coffee without or with dairy milk.
However, those substitutes in itself don't allow you to produce other products where it can aid in human development as an example.
Drinking milk by itself can be bad, your body can have trouble digesting it. But when the milk is used to produce cheese, which produces fat, proteins which your body do require in moderate amounts of where do you source that?
Robbing a cow of it's milk is an ethical question and one which is very debatable. Has the cow consented to giving you it's milk, as to the same as taking a hen's egg for a fried egg?
Nuts, have the tree consented for you taking their cashew nuts, olive oil which we inhumanely abuse too; forestation and the rest.
One could argue that the true food source is yourself.
Butchering your arm and frying it is probably the most humane, un-cruel source of food you could eat. But you were produced by your parents so you better ask for their permission first.
It all comes down to your morals and where your compass sits. Although in reality this is persuaded and manipulated by today's social constructs so not everyone has full working compass.
For me, if a cow produces excess amounts, and I can thank the cow before drinking the milk; turning that milk in to another food source that can benefit more. I feel that is satisfactory.
If they produce excess amounts, why waste it? Same with grapes, wine, nuts. They are all food providers and in excess. If I don't go in to greed. Start taking more than what's needed; I don't need cheese everyday, I don't need eggs every day, I don't see cruel.
It is cruel when it has to be produced extensively just to fuel the people who want it for greed or no purpose. If they need it more for their young, then it's theirs.
I can give back and just out of my own heart I do when I can. I'm very grateful for the sourced food I eat and I eat it in moderation. Alternatives do exist but when I desire such produce I ensure the best quality even if it costs.
Which it should, it shouldn't be cheap nor a commodity, but that itself raises the questions of what about those who can't afford quality foods -- should they go without?