All my life, I was educated to believe that milk was this cool healthy drink, that was good for your bones, and helped you grow. To my surprise, in recent years, milk has gotten some awful publicity. Which explains all the new milk like products on the market, such as almond or soy milk. Among this awful publicity, I repeatedly and recently saw this image in my social media, which I translated since it was originally in Spanish, and posted it below.

Other than the blood poured in the glass of milk, the image caught my attention for all the claims attached to it. For example, how can milk cause arthritis if it’s supposed to help your bones with calcium, not make them ill? Or how about milk causing breast and prostate cancer?

I honestly don’t care about the 135 million cells of pus in my milk, though.  The purpose of the claim is to gross you out, but there is no actual evidence that this is bad for you. Got Pus? …I mean Milk? I’ve been drinking milk for more than 20 years, the pus never bother me anyway.

So let’s assume milk sucks, it sucks for your body and for the environment, and there is a lot of evidence that suggests this to be true. What other options do we have?

Apparently, almond milk isn’t that great for the environment either. It takes 5 liters of water to grow 1 almond and more than 80% of the world’s almond crops are in California. Think about how they are getting water to crops, and how they import the almonds to all over the world. Places outside of the US normally get almond milk imported there, they don’t produce it in the country.

In addition, soybean plantations into forest are also having a horrible environmental impact. Deforestation is responsable for around 15% of greenhouse emissions caused by people. 

Maybe, the problem with all the milks is that we are drinking way too much. The problem is that we’re 7 billion people in this world who on average drink milk everyday.

Would you consider reducing or erasing milk from your diet, after knowing this facts? Is milk actually bad for your health and the environment, or is it the quantity we’re consuming? Is there a possibility to feed 7 billion people without destroying the earth? Wouldn’t we want to know.