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by throwaway22032 777 days ago
I'll bite. I'm currently carrying a bottle of whole milk home from the shop to have a glass.

It has 15g of protein per 500ml, a ton of calcium and 350ish calories.

Super nutritious.

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Looking at the carton of soymilk from my fridge.

It has 18g of protein per 480ml, 60mg of calcium, and 200 calories. (Also 2.4mg of iron and 860mg of potassium)

The only ingredients are water and soybeans.

500ml of soy milk has almost twice as many protein and tons of nutrients too. It requires like 5% as much water to produce, 0 antibiotic, and no animals
And when factoring in the negative externalities extremely expensive. When factoring in the moral aspect considering the way the cows are treated it’s an immoral product.
Too bad animal protein increases calcium (and other mineral) excretion so your body can't use all that calcium [1].

That's also 1/3 of your saturated fat in a single glass.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566930/