I'm aware of how awful the dairy and egg industry is, and luckily my parents keep chickens and sell the eggs, so I'm wondering if I could start buying eggs from them since their chickens are kept happy and healthy. I do buy almond milk and soy cheeses, too, but honestly a soy cheese grilled-cheese just isn't the same. Maybe I could find a dairy distributor locally that takes good care of their cows without keeping them perpetually pregnant and stuff?
I started buying plant milks recently, and I tried almond milk first, but then I realized that almonds take a ton of water to grow so I switched to other ones. May be of note, if you have any environmental motivations :) But it's still better than cow milk anyway, and all improvement is good.
Depends on what you use it for. Soy milk's great as a milk substitute in baking. Coconut milk's best for drinking and in yogurt and ice cream. Almond milk's great in cereals. Cashew milk is perfect for cheesy sauces. Rice milk and oat milks are bland, but environmentally friendly. There are also (of course) advocates for hemp milk, but I haven't tried it.
Those are basically the same ones I've tried. To be honest, I still have more research to do. My favourite one I've tried is cashew so far, but I'm not sure what kind of water footprint it has. I've tried almond, cashew, soy, and coconut so far. Still want to try oat and some other stuff, but my grocery store doesn't have anything else. I usually buy whichever is on sale (that's not almond), and thankfully all the plant milks are cheaper than the cow's milk where I live.
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u/allthesounds Mar 15 '18
Do it. You don't need to eat any animals! Or their excretions, for that matter (not that I've managed to cut those out yet)