Lactose in enough quantities gets my tummy rumbling in a bad way so I’m trying out alternatives.
Oat milk in hipster coffee drinks is pretty good.
Soy milk as a protein and calcium beverage is fine. Tastes OK.
There is lactose-free milk too but that is still suspect. Either it’s not all the way lactose free or too much of any kind of dairy quakes my intestines.
Don’t buy into the anti-almond milk bullshit, it’s propaganda. It still takes about 3x less water to produce per gallon than dairy milk, and that’s not accounting for the numerous other ecological issues with cattle farming. It may have a higher environmental cost than other plant milks, but it’s still leagues better than going back to cow juice.
I haven’t found compelling evidence to support this claim
What compelling evidence leads you to believe otherwise? Dairy industry propaganda based on a single study during the height of a massive drought in California that you half read 5 years ago?
https://www.agroinvestspain.com/debunking-a-myth-almond-water-footprint/
Here’s a decent overview. If you haven’t found ‘compelling evidence’ it’s because you haven’t bothered to look.
I have looked. everything I found has been myopic.
I simply suspend judgement until I have good reason to believe one way or the other
this paper doesn’t show the methodology for determining the water footprint of dairy milk.