Seems perfectly ok to me … I was born on a traditional dairy farm and have also had a small herd of dairy goats … in both cases the animals were incredibly well treated. Humans using milk from various animals is part of traditional agriculture and nutrition in many parts of the world. It’s developed into a mutually beneficial (almost symbiotic) relationship and is similar to keeping bees and using their honey, or poultry and eggs.
While I loathe some of the more ‘industrial’ practices of intensive animal farming, I see nothing wrong with the production and consumption of dairy products as part of traditional mixed agriculture.
For me it’s the increasing tendency to anthropomorphism and a resulting squeamishness around dairy products that I find weird.
Sorry if that offends some, but it’s my view.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just wondering why you are doing this @Emerion? It's obviously not to reduce caffeine - are you lactose intolerant? I don't drink coffee. Nasty bitter stuff. If I have to for social conformity (luckily a rare thing these days) I have to put far too much sugar in it to make it tolerable. I do drink tea, including lots of herbal ones, but I generally grow the herbs - fresh lemon verbena tea is very hard to beat
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
There are plenty of coffees which are smooth and fruity without bitterness, I like Guatemala for that reason, but it is down to the roast. No matter the origin of the beans, Spanish coffee brands are almost always burnt and bitter tasting. A French roast like Illy is usually better. I’ve always drank it black so can’t comment on milk substitutes.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'd second (third? fourth?) the oat milk suggestion. (Not the skimmed variety though.) I'm definitely a fan of cow's milk, but we had "full fat" oat milk to use up after our milk-intolerant grandson visited a couple of years ago. Son suggested trying it in coffee, so we did. Lovely.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Which reminds me... I'm wondering if OH should go back to sugar, rather than the Aspartame sweeteners he's been using for years in tea & coffee. (He reckons he's too old to give up sweetening drinks.) There seems to be a lot of conflicting research about the amount of risk of serious problems (dementia, heart disease, cancer etc) from these sweeteners. The question is, which is worse for his health, sugar or Aspartame?
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I take coffee black, but use Alpro Not Milk for cooking / cereals. I used it for my SIL's coffee recently without telling her until after she'd finished. She said she couldn't tell it wasn't dairy.
The question is, which is worse for his health, sugar or Aspartame?
Probably aspartame but it's hard to say for sure. Aspartame has been thoroughly studied and lab tested, but it is a complex synthetic compound. (according to wikipedia "It is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide") Personally I prefer to avoid synthetic and processed foods and additives, based on the advice my mother's oncologist gave her.
The effects of sugar are quite serious and unhealthy, but they won't come as a surprise. It's still a processed food though.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I used to drink really milky tea and coffee until I had the norovirus. After that I couldn't face hot milk in any form for some reason and I've drunk everything black with no sugar since then. I don't recommend it as a method though
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't drink coffee. Nasty bitter stuff. If I have to for social conformity (luckily a rare thing these days) I have to put far too much sugar in it to make it tolerable. I do drink tea, including lots of herbal ones, but I generally grow the herbs - fresh lemon verbena tea is very hard to beat
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I used it for my SIL's coffee recently without telling her until after she'd finished. She said she couldn't tell it wasn't dairy.
He could try a small spoon of honey @Liriodendron.
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A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
The effects of sugar are quite serious and unhealthy, but they won't come as a surprise. It's still a processed food though.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”