Comments on: Is It Possible To Have a Balanced Diet Without Dairy? https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/can-you-get-a-balanced-diet-without-dairy/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Lori Stevermer https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/can-you-get-a-balanced-diet-without-dairy/#comment-305 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:51:00 +0000 https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/?p=7060#comment-305 In reply to Christine Campbell.

All living plants and animals need nutrients for growth and maintenance. These nutrients are available from a variety of sources and some are better sources for a particular nutrient than others. I believe that was the main point of the original answer. That’s why we talk about a “balanced diet”. We need to look at everything we consume, the nutrients that are being provided and evaluate whether that’s the best source and quantity for our particular situation.

]]> By: Christine Campbell https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/can-you-get-a-balanced-diet-without-dairy/#comment-302 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 20:30:00 +0000 https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/?p=7060#comment-302 It’s such a marketing triumph of the milk industry that we think we need cow-based dairy in our lives. Unless you’re a calf, you don’t need cow’s milk. Plain and simple. It’s a recent cultural development to drink the milk of other animals and I find it such an odd cultural phenomenon. As a lactating woman, it’s come into incredibly sharp perspective. People treat the milk I pump as such a taboo product and would never consider even tasting it, let alone drinking it as a dietary staple. Yet, they’ll take the milk away from an infant cow and chug back a litre without a second thought. If I could market my business as well as the milk producers have, I’d be a millionaire! That’s not to say there aren’t good nutrients in dairy products- of course there are! But if you are interested in nutrients, and want something balanced for a human body- not a cow who is meant to put on 70-80lbs a month (hmmm…. eating something that is meant for a 1 tonne animal may have something to do with the obesity epidemic)- maybe we need to consider other options. Just because plant-based milks have different nutrient compositions doesn’t necessarily follow that they are worse compositions. I’m not arguing against eating dairy at all, but we need to walk up to the cultural paradigm and understand where those fallacies need to be broken down.

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