Dairy is no longer safe to ingest

Here are some ways to kick the habit.

Apr 26, 2025

The US FDA has suspended milk and other dairy product quality testing because Musk fired half their workforce and they no longer have enough staff to do the jobs the FDA was created to do.

Link to the story at the bottom of this piece.

So more than ever before it’s crucial to get off dairy.

Milk

The milk part is the easiest. Just switch to soy milk. Bam, done. Adjust to the taste over the next two weeks and the transition is complete.

If you want to be fussy about it, you can try almond milk and some of the other nut milks, but soy is the healthiest, the lowest in fat, and the best for the environment. It prevents breast cancer for heaven’s sake.

I mean it’s really time we grow up and eat what’s good for us, don’t you think?

Cheese

The cheese part is bloody awful, because even vegan cheese is high in fat, often saturated fat, and therefore it’s layering plaque along the insides of our coronary arteries.

However, non-dairy cheese, though fatty, is still less harmful than dairy cheese for your body, and way less harmful for the animals involved, and light years less harmful to the planet.

For fake cheese, if you must, I’d go with Myoko’s. It’s the best tasting, and the best melting brand. They have a liquid mozzarella that is amazing. You pour it on, then as it bakes, it takes on that gooey stretchy mozzarella texture. So bizarre. Myoko’s also makes solid cheeses and you just have to try them. They’re made from cashews and coconut milk.

Myoko's Creamery

One thing to watch out for in other brands is “non-dairy” cheeses that contain an ingredient called “casein.” Casien is a dairy protein. But for some obscure reason, you don’t have to list dairy as an ingrained if you’re only using the protein extracted from it. And yet, the casein is the part of dairy products that is known to activate dormant cancer genes and cause them to start producing cancer cells. So you don’t want that. And besides, if it has casein, it’s not really dairy-free.

Butter/Margarine

Again, in a whole food plant-based diet, we don’t touch this stuff. But if you have to, it’s no longer safe to use the dairy based products—and yes, even margarine contains dairy.

The best brands I found when I still was eating a buttery spread was Land-O-Lakes with Avocado Oil. Very tasty.

But again, I recommend learning how to eat vegetables without the butter.

A couple of substitutions:

For toast or English muffins: I spread them with peanut butter or jelly/preserves or both.

I top potatoes with chili, or slather them with a mixture of peppers, onions, and mushrooms, or drench them in mushroom gravy, or make them mashed with so many flavors they need no topping, or whip up a little make a little cashew sour cream for the baked ones, or make them scalloped with a white sauce and lots of onions and some vegan bacon seasoning, or shred them into hash browns and air-fry til the edges are golden and crispy, or bake them as French fries or slice them into home fries, or eat the tiny ones steamed, whole, just as they are.

With so many options it’s easy to eliminate butter, and you don’t need butter or oil or spray for sautéing and browning, just a good pan and a little practice. Here’s a demo.

Whipped Topping

You can make a nice fluffy whipped topping with the liquid from a can of chickpeas, also known as the aquafaba from a can of garbanzo beans. You can make a variety of frostings and toppings. Every plant-based cookbook has several to choose from using a variety of ingredients from nuts to tofu. I even cheat with confectioner’s sugar once in a great while.

Ice Cream

There are 34 flavors of Ben & Jerry’s non-dairy ice cream. And there are many other brands besides Ben & Jerry’s.

Now, be aware it’s very high in saturated fat and sugars, but so is dairy ice cream. If you’re going to eat ice cream anyway, the non-dairy is less harmful to your health than the dairy. However the most healthful option would be to avoid ice cream all together or limit it to once or twice a year.

Dairy as an ingredient

The goal is to never have to read too many labels, because we’re buying mostly whole foods. But if you are still buying processed, the ingredients list has to list dairy right at the bottom of the bigger list, along with tree nuts, wheat, soy, etc.

But there are the hidden dairy ingredients that slide through the very large loopholes. Casein and other names. There’s a list of hidden dairy ingredients here.

Why dairy is the toughest thing to quit since smoking

It’s addictive. Dairy contains casomorphines, which are the same sort of drug as morphine with the same addictive qualities, just in a less powerful dose.

It’s time

We’ve got bird flu, we’ve got raw milk in the same plants with pasteurized, contaminating the whole place, we’ve got an FDA in shambles, an end to food safety inspections, a clearing out of regulations, and a planet on the brink.

You know else we’ve got—we’ve got plaque in our coronary arteries, every last one of us. 18-year-olds who died in Vietnam had plaque in their coronary arteries. That’s the beginning of heart disease. And that’s what the standard American diet, based around animal proteins in the forms of meat, dairy, and eggs, gives you.

Heart disease by 18.

I don’t think anyone reading this is 18 anymore. There’s never been a better time to get laser-focused on a safe, healthy diet. We can no longer trust our food systems are safe. We must then eliminate the highest risk foods, which are the animal foods.

We only get e.coli outbreaks in produce because the produce is irrigated from the manmade canals that run alongside the factory-feedlots, rinsing away the manure as they pass. Whoo, boy, fertilizer and water all in one. Yeehaw, boys, let’s soak that romaine in shit-water and watch it grow.

I am not making this up. ←That’s a shoutout to one of my favorite writers, right there.

UPDATE on the Garden Tower

Welp, we took the dirt out and switched that one section of the interior that we’d installed incorrectly in last week’s post. We have started to layer shredded brown paper with finely chopped food scraps in the center tower to let bacteria begin to grow, and we have ordered a handful of red wigglers to begin the vermicomposting project.

The tower is on the front porch in a sunny front window, but I’m going to have lights on it, to reach the plants in the back.

My seeds have not germinated very happily. I got a dozen or so greens to come up, a few mixed lettuces, a few kale, and some spinach, I think. Oh, I hope at least one is Swiss chard! Anyway, I need to start more seeds. And I need to find a reliable source for more, so I can keep my greens growing all year long, once I begin.

These were not reliable. I think I might try soaking the next batch overnight in a tiny bit of water before planting this time, to help ready them for germination.

Anyway, a few came up and I’ve added them to the Garden Tower. Here are a couple of my babies up close. Haven’t even got the second set of leaves yet. Normally I’d wait for that, but their original soil was a bit too wet and I thought moving them out was best.

Aren’t they cute?

I’ll keep you posted on the gardening efforts.

I love the planter, and I think it’s going to be great. It turns easily, despite its weight when full of damp dirt. Nice bearings or something give it a smooth spin.

But we’re just getting started. I don’t have the lights up yet, as hubs plans to make light stands and that has to wait for the weekend. (Can’t we both just quit working and homestead?) If I don’t get better at germinating seeds, I’ll have to start purchasing plants. But you know, the stores only have them in the spring, so that’s not a sustainable path. I must get the seeds to sprout.

I can hardly wait to start crossing things off our grocery list because we’re growing them on in the back yard and on the front porch! I am going to be a veggie growing goddess!