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Cheese & butter are pretty dang hard to replace, and yogurt fills a special nutritional niche. By the way, you profess to object to red meat and milk, but you'
by ip26 7y ago
Cheese & butter are pretty dang hard to replace, and yogurt fills a special nutritional niche.
By the way, you profess to object to red meat and milk, but you're basically advocating veganism.
- cageface 7y agoWhat is this special nutritional niche that yogurt occupies? The majority of humans don't eat it and seem to be doing ok.
- alwillis 7y agoYogurt is milk that’s been fermented; the result releases probiotics that can help support helpful gut bacteria. But there other fermented foods one can eat that are dairy-free, like tempeh, kimchi and miso.
- rsynnott 7y agoAnd how useful the whole dietary probiotic thing is is fairly controversial, anyway.
- xzel 7y agoYogurt contains probiotics so I'm assuming that is the niche he is talking about, i.e, fermented foods. Also I think a lot of the world does eat yogurt. It is very common in US, Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. I'm not sure about Africa and South America. Apparently, more than 50% of the US population does (or at least yogurt and smoothies, which I'm assuming they meant yogurt based smoothies but who knows) https://www.statista.com/statistics/279748/us-households-consumption-of-yogurt-and-smoothies https://www.statista.com/statistics/279748/us-households-con...
- cageface 7y agoHere in SE Asia yogurt is much less popular but there are lots of other non-dairy fermented, probiotic foods that people eat regularly like kimchi, natto, etc. So yogurt may be one of the few probiotic foods people eat in the West but it's hardly special.
- sumedh 7y agoYoghurt is pretty big in India as well.
- ip26 7y agoI was mainly thinking of K2.
- malkia 7y agoCan't tell right now, but in Bulgaria is what we get almost all day - either for breakfast, just like this, or for kids might add sugar (but no need to). Mix it with water - 50/50 or some other ratio - and you get yogurt drink - "airian", seeing here (in the US) that stores (mostly iranian) have such but salted, or carbonated. Found also the best representative (to me at least) yogurt at Whole Foods - yes, it's marked "Bulgarian", and it's pretty good :) I'm also following low-carb/keto diet, so while I like it, I have to be careful with it, though it's much better (cheat) than other things... (like ... pastry)
- moab 7y agoI'm actually working toward a sort of "orthodox"-Jainism in which you only eat substances that plants are actively trying to give to other animals to help them propagate themselves (so eating fruits/bellpeppers, etc. are all ok, but killing a plant to consume it is not). Anyway I understand that talking about animals and plants in this fashion is not a popular position on HN, and folks have and are likely to downvote me.
- egdod 7y agoWater doesn’t actively try to give itself to be drunk. Is it ok to consume?
- Pfhreak 7y agoYo, don't do that here. Someone responded politely about their personal beliefs, asking a interrogative question like this is needlessly rude.
- nitrogen 7y agoIf it was never okay to as questions, then any discussion ever could be shut down with "personal belief". If some beliefs can be examined and others are deemed too sensitive, then eventually the untouchable beliefs multiply and take over all discussions. Beliefs are meant to be examined and evaluated, not coddled.
- Intermernet 7y agoYep, but make sure you conduct your examination and evaluation in a polite and civil manner. Otherwise you're just being contrarian and rude. I believe in free speech, but I also believe that rude, insulting, thoughtless or incendiary speech deserves to be soundly ignored.
- bluntfang 7y agoSurely there's a difference between asking a question and saying things to be an asshole. Let's all strive to be less of an asshole as a society, ok?