A glass of milk every morning is considered a fashion for so-called modern people living in cities and is also seen as a symbol of a healthy lifestyle. However, the author argues that the claim that drinking milk is beneficial to health is difficult to verify, while its harm is very obvious—it will bring an ecological disaster to the Earth. Is a glass of milk daily really good for your body?
In the long history of mankind, the vast majority of nations have never used the milk of other animals as an essential food. Besides nomadic peoples, why have non-nomadic peoples, who never had a tradition of consuming milk, suddenly made milk a daily food, even a necessity, in a short period of time?
For most city dwellers in China, the change from consuming almost no milk to a glass a day has only taken about 20 years.
For at least 20 years, many scientific justifications or myths about milk have been circulating in China, the most famous of which is probably this: Because the Japanese drink milk every day, their average height has increased by 10 centimeters in N years! I used to firmly believe these scientific justifications and myths. However, if we think about it ourselves, for a piece of scientific knowledge, such as the scientific evidence about the rich nutrients in milk, do we believe it because we have "verified" it, or do we believe it because everyone else believes it and the newspapers say so?
The effects of milk are too abstract. For example, for calcium supplementation, has the calcium been supplemented, and what are the manifestations of it? How many people can directly experience this? In contrast, lactose intolerance causing diarrhea is an immediate judgment. Therefore, in the process of changing from almost never drinking to a glass a day, the "scientific evidence" people talk about is actually something that seems plausible but is actually fallacious. Milk production is very cruel
Many people don't know this, and I was also a bit unclear about it before. Now I can finally confirm that the reason dairy cows produce milk is because they have given birth to a calf. No female mammal will inexplicably have milk flowing from its udder every day. So why do dairy cows give birth to calves? Because they are pregnant.