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I am now eating cereal with the last of the first gallon of cow's milk I bought in several week or so after going without it and drinking only soymilk instead. It was not an easy decision to switch back.
At about seven dollars per two half-gallon pack when it is on sale and more when it is not, soymilk is very expensive. It seems that common domesticated cow milk can have a rather high pus content, though, and upon learning that, I stopped buying cow milk at its considerably more affordable price—two gallons for about four dollars or so—and started buying soymilk exclusively. I had previously bought soymilk now and then and I have always enjoyed it, so making the switch was quite easy except for the greater strain on my wallet.
After weeks of drinking only soymilk having only soymilk with my cereal, it started to seem very heavy to me. I have been trying to improve my health and I have actually lost some weight, dropped some clothing sizes, and even had to make new holes in my belt to tighten it up and keep using it, but I have made less progress toward better health over the past couple months or so than I did during the previous couple months and I think soymilk has been part of my problem—it is just too fatty. I am accustomed to drinking and using only fat-free milk, so the switch to soymilk actually increased my overall fat and saturated fat intakes at a time when I have been trying to reduce them.
Of course, there are other things that have been slowing my health-improvement efforts over the past couple months, such as not getting enough sleep or exercise (I always seem to eat more than usual when I do not get enough sleep), becoming ill from food-poisoning, and being stressed about educational, vocational, and financial matters. I do not blame my recently slowed progress entirely on my switch to soymilk, but I am trying to address all of the factors I can identify and that seems to be one of them, so I am back to fat-free cow's milk. Not the same cow's milk as before, though.
I haven't forgotten about the whole pus thing, so I have started buying only milk from cows that are not treated with rbST. At about four dollars per gallon, it costs about twice as much as other milk, but about half as much as soymilk when none of the three are on sale. That solves the fat issue, but now I am again reliant on an animal industry of which I do not generally approve. I suppose the next step then is to try to buy cow's milk only from vendors that not only do not treat their cows with rBST, but that treat their cows well. I am not yet sure how to find out about that, though.
