• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s completely wild that people drink cow hormone juice and then think that soy is affecting their hormones.

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        3 months ago

        The problem is that they give the cows growth hormone and high amounts of estrogen to encourage lactation and it’s in the milk. I’m lactose intolerant like half of adults anyway so I do almond milk and olive oil butter personally.

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          3 months ago

          That doesn’t make any sense. Estrogen wouldn’t even make a cow produce more milk. Are you confusing Estrogen with Prolactin? (which also isn’t given to cows, but would at least have the effect you describe)

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          3 months ago

          None of those chemicals are allowed to be present in the milk of cows lactating for human consumption. They test the milk for those chemicals at the dairy. If any trace amount is found, the whole tanker is dumped as contaminated.

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      3 months ago

      It’s completely wild that… Husbandry exists? That we eat other animals? That we rot liquid food to drink it? That we use bacteria to curdle milk?

      Hot bean juice!

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        3 months ago

        I’m on your level. People get really weird about milk despite the fact that the majority of people consume animal flesh on a daily basis. Milk is way low on the weird food scale.

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          3 months ago

          We’ve been eating animals a few million years longer than drinking their milk. (Lactose intolerance is far more common than generally thought.)