Kefir >> milk

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Ever since I was a kid I have been unable to drink plain white cow milk without suffering from a powerful urge to throw up. I'm not lactose intolerant because if I add a strong flavour to the milk I can drink it with no ill-effects. So for years I drank chocolate milk to get the calcium that it seemed was best absorbed from milk. That's actually

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[ramou]

cows treated with love and respect

Gilded Cage! Gilded Cage!

[quikchange]

I don't have an inherant moral problem wirth drinking cow milk. It only bothers me that cows are fed corn and pumped full of antibiotics. Free-range cows being used for beef or dairy is fine with me.

[ramou]

hehe. I was just commenting on the love and respect. I agree with your position, in principle.

[jbdeboer]

That is really funny. Ever thought that cattle need a balanced diet too? Feeding them only hay will make them skinny and sickly.
Don't worry, 'free-range' and 'grass-fed' are just marketting terms to make you feel all warm and fuzzy about paying twice as much for you food.

[quikchange]

I guess that depends on the implementation. Some farms do feed their cown a balanced diet, assuming they aren't outright lying. But that doesn't mean they all do.
However, food labelled organic must meet fairly strimgent standards.

[jbdeboer]

I didn't bother reading your linked sources. The first looks like a commerical farm website, and is likely just marketting (whether or not it supports my claims). The second is hosted by a 'eco-terrorism' group (COK), and should be disregarded on that alone.