The Animal Question

More milk vs. soy milk

Yesterday I wrote about my sudden preference for cow's milk over soy milk. I tossed off a quick apology to WestSoy, but I should have said WhiteWave Foods instead, as they make the Silk brand of soy milk I've drunk for years and years. I love Silk; despite what I said yesterday, it's a tie for flavor with cow's milk. I think I was just being wowed by the newness of cow's milk flavor when I said it is better.

Last night I dreamed that my cat Smoke, who died almost two years ago by the way, was suckling at the teet of a pig. This sight really grossed me out, for two reasons: 1) my cat was weaned a long time ago, so suckling as an adult (she was not a kitten in the dream) seemed wrong and 2) she's a cat, not a piglet, so the cross-species breast-feeding struck me as wrong as well.

Milk vs. soy milk

For years I've preferred soy milk to cow's milk, even when I began eating (some) meat (because of food allergies, something I'll explain in a later post). But recently I went whole hog, or rather whole cow and bought some milk. It's organic and 2 percent, and you know what? It tastes a lot better than soy. Sorry, Westsoy.