I enjoy almond milk a lot (both the super-sweet-almost-melted-vanilla-ice-cream kind, and especially the chocolate kind), but when I saw this infographic, I was astounded at the "water footprint" that one glass of conventionally produced almond milk takes. So I make my own more often now, and it is far more efficient.
In less than 3 minutes I had made my own almond milk (1 cup of raw almonds in the vitamix blender with a couple of cups of water, then squeezed through a "nut bag" and stirred with a pinch of salt and a bit of coconut sugar (feel free to use the sweetener of your choice, or no sweetener at all).
If you want to read the article that contained this info, click the link:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/california-water-suck
Are we drinking the wrong kind of milk?
When I read things like this passage below, (discussing different proteins found in cow's milk from different breeds of cows), it just makes it much MORE clear that humans aren't needing to drink another species milk at all.
"When digested, A1 beta-casein (but not the A2 variety) releases
beta-casomorphin7 (BCM7), an opioid with a structure similar to that of
morphine. Studies increasingly point to BCM7 as a troublemaker.
Numerous recent tests, for example, have shown that blood from people
with autism and schizophrenia contains higher-than-average amounts of
BCM7. In a recent study, Richard Deth, a professor of pharmacology at
Northeastern University in Boston, and his postdoctoral fellow, Malav
Trivedi, showed in cell cultures that the presence of similarly high
amounts of BCM7 in gut cells causes a chain reaction that creates a
shortage of antioxidants in neural cells, a condition that other
research has tied to autism. The study, underwritten in part by A2
Corp., is now undergoing peer review in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. "
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/a1-milk-a2-milk-america
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