I'm just saying... what we don't know.

Usually you end that statement, "can kill us" but I'm going to rewrite it to "can make us say stupid things."

Are you living probiotic? Are you also drinking almond milk to get rid of veal and dairy farming?

Well, a review of almond milks shows that each and every one of them contains cane sugar. You know.  That refined sugar that contributes to obesity and Type II diabetes. Every single one of them also contains emulsifiers, which are also coming under scrutiny for causing obesity and therefore heart problems and diabetes.

Plus the carbon footprint. Almond trees do not produce almond milk. The almonds have to be harvested, the shells taken off mechanically, they get transported to a factory that runs probably on petroleum (I've never seen the data on that, tell me if you know of one that runs off solar or geothermic or whatever), and then the packages use petroleum products (such as wax) and get transported to stores.

Now for the reason I brought up probiotic. We're all supposed to be going probiotic, mostly with yogurt. Which is made from cow's milk. It's the specific microorganisms that turn the milk into yogurt that makes it probiotic. You have to add yogurt probiotics to almond milk to get a probiotic yogurt. But it's still  not as good as cow's milk yogurt for two reasons.

One, and this is a money reason, is you can't use the end of a batch to make more almond milk yogurt. You can do this with cow's milk yogurt and it will save you $$$$$$$$$.

Two, and this is partly a money reason, is you have to add a thickener. With cow's milk yogurt, if you keep your milk at the right heat long enough, your yogurt will come out thick. Been there, done that, it's in the instructions for the packet you use to make your first batch. Commercial yogurt makers aren't willing to spent that extra time; they add food starch, gelatin, or other crap to make the yogurt thick.

Well, food starch makes my mouth dry and gelatin is a different problem. You can't buy just any gelatin. If you keep kosher or halal, you need something that is certified kosher or you need to know if your imam will accept kosher as halal. If you are vegan, you need to realize that somewhere in the past of your gelatin, there was a cow.

And if you are drinking almond milk to defeat the dairy industry, you have to bite the bullet and realize that your gelatin could have come from a dairy cow that was too old to calve and therefore too old to give milk. So the owner sold her to be rendered down for gelatin, among other products. If you get rid of dairy farming, you have to rely on the beef meat industry to get your gelatin. They can call it grass-fed if they want, all that means is the cow grazes instead of living in a feed lot that is the bovine equivalent of producing foie gras.

Not to mention that the person who wrote the article has to make her own almond milk. Every attempt to make yogurt from store-bought has failed. It's probably the stuff the manufacturers put in the almond milk. Imagine all the time and $$$$$$$$$$$$$ she has had to spend buying and milking raw almonds to support her kids' yogurt habit, simply because she got on her high horse about the dairy industry.

And now the really big issue about destroying the dairy industry. Some women are unable to nurse their babies. They don't lactate properly. Or they have to work -- you know perfectly well that some American businesses do not give women proper facilities or breaks to nurse their babies.

Well, there's formula, but soy formula has been implicated in promoting peanut allergy, and we all remember the poisoned  baby formula some years back. Plus one of the reasons people hate Nestle is they have been promoting use of their formula in countries that have limited access to clean water. You should not be feeding your baby formula unless it is made with clean water. So formula is not necessarily the solution.

Goat milk is not the solution either. A human baby cannot get the nutrients it needs from goat milk. And what do you do with all the baby goats that are born just so the nanny will keep giving milk? So you're right back into something that people hate about dairy farming in general.

So do you let human babies die if they live in a cow's milk desert?

Almond farming has sustainability problems, including the collapse of bee colonies and the difficulties of growing trees at all as global temperatures rise. Almond prices have more than doubled in only 4 years. So the affordability of buying enough almonds to support a heavy yogurt habit has to be weighed against increases in housing, energy, health care and yes, other food items.

You squeeze the balloon in here and it bulges out there. People who don't do their homework don't realize this, they just focus on one pixel out of the whole picture. And then they make stupid claims and don't understand why industry ignores them.

I'm just saying...