I’ll give Jamez more leeway than most because of how much I like his recipe books, but milk is one of my favourite things, whether it’s pure, chocolate flavoured, or yogurt.
Everybody should be consuming less (ideally no) dairy, though. It’s a good campaign. Dairy farming is horrendous, but leaving that ethical argument to one side. We as humans are, I suspect, the only species that drinks another species’ milk.We’re just not meant to drink cow’s milk. it’s extremely indigestible owing to the nature of the proteins in the milk. There are far better ways to get protein and calcium. Also, if you think about what milk is (i.e. a secretion/ mucous produced by a mother for feeding her young) then I question why it should be consumed in any other context than that.
I’m not suggesting that dairy should be cut from children’s diets altogether (my son eats cheese, and will get the odd cup of cow’s milk if I can’t be bothered breastfeeding), but it is massively overconsumed from toddler age and above with some children drinking a pint a day or more (which is horrendous). Cutting out milk is a great place to start in remedying this failure in balanced diet.
I’ve got a question: why aren’t there any cheaper, supermarket own-brand vegan milk alternatives? It’s all Alpro, at least in the tiny city Supermarkets I shop in.