Moving from Dairy to Vegan Alternatives

Hey everyone!

So following my Vegan themed blogs in the culture section, I wanted to write up some of my thoughts after seeing all the Amsterdam cheese that confronted us on our travels haha. Cheese is amazing, it’s actually delicious and you can just about put it in everything. However, it’s made of animal milk that is chemically and biologically produced to nurture the immunity, growth, and nourishment of a different species than us. We have dissasociated from what our bodies are, and what our bodies can do and I think that the core of this comes down to the manufacturing process and the lack of involvement that we individually have in creating our food.

We buy things that are there, constructed in several layers of materials, that are preserved with plastic components, that have additives to enhance and disguise flavors, to prevent bacterial growth, to increase yield. These are simply shit for us to eat. I don’t know how else to say it, sausages don’t pop out of the ground. They’re a product of convenience that doesn’t have eyes. There’s something about eyes that I always go back to, I wish that all people were posting on social media had a mandatory upload of their eyes like some sort of identification and humanization of their voices. When you see someone’s eyes you see what they’re about, and there is no difference with an animal. You get a product, you don’t see it as what it is and with dairy food, the processes to create them into the final item is even more convoluted.

Some of the issues that often get misdiagnosed are the respiratory issues that people deal with like asthma, and the physical issues with their skin, and that’s any type of dermatitis based ailment. Our bodies are using other animals byproducts as a form of sustenance and our bodies do not process it properly. There’s been a long time theory that the reason that the Mongols gained dominance is that they were able to digest the sugars in animal milk in a way that their oppositions could not, and it is just a case by case situation. For me, eating milk-based products puts my body into a state of irritation that overloads the system, so things that would irritate me just out of inherited allergies like dogs or cats, they are a full-force attack. If I’ve had a strict vegan lifestyle and I encounter the Baron’s animals, I have minimal to no reaction. If my body is already handling the extent of the milk, then it’s a nightmare.

With my skin, I had an extreme case of eczema as a child and that involved being treated with steroids, supplements in my food and medicated lotions in every bath I ever took. It was not a great experience and what should have happened was a doctor should have tested what my body could tolerate in terms of nutrition and what it could not. Cat’s don’t drink dairy, they have to be put through a gel that holds lactase so it breaks down that particular sugar that cats can’t tolerate, and some of us are the same as those cats. So yes, cheese is amazing. But sometimes the effects of those things are not great.

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