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by watwut 1252 days ago
Same goes for vegetables. That being said, animal milk drinking is not something new at all. And in "traditional" setup, milk availability is massive improvement nutritionally/health wise over no milk.
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That's a false dichotomy. These days we put so many nutrients artificially into the feed of livestock, e.g. B12, that we might as well skip the whole livestock step and just take a vitamin pill every morning.

Most people have a vitamin-D deficiency, most vegans that I know of at least take care of making sure that they get enough supplements.

> And in "traditional" setup, milk availability is massive improvement nutritionally/health wise over no milk.

only if you can process lactose. A large amount of people can't. Plus, "traditional" farming is highly dependent on location.