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.

I awoke remembering that those same two oddities are what have always bothered me about humans drinking cow's milk. We are the only mammals who don't wean our young; we take children off human breast milk and get them onto cow's milk (why?), and yeah, it's milk from a COW, not a human. It's just strange, even if you chalk up the practice to domestication practices.

So, that all said, why am I still drinking my Horizon organic cow's milk?

I bought it because I was suffering from worse hay fever than I'd had since I saw an allergist about six years ago. According to the skin-scratch test I took back then, I'm allergic to soy and all other legumes. I'd been eating a lot of tofu and guzzling soy milk prior to the hay-fever outbreak. As soon as I removed all known allergens from my diet -- which unfortunately happen to be vegetarian staple foods, such as nuts and legumes -- the hay fever cleared up.

So now you know why I can't stand sanctimonious vegetarians, even though I used to be one.

One more thing: I ate a tuna sandwich for lunch today. This abstention from legumes makes me crave protein. I usually eat a salad every day for lunch, but it didn't seem like it'd do the trick this time.

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