> Therefore, the nutritional composition of the industrially produced cow's milk today is complicated. As it is for most things found within the grocery store.

> Therefore, the nutritional composition of the industrially produced cow's milk today is complicated. As it is for most things found within the grocery store. Modern cultivars of produce for instance, have been bred within a short time-frame for size, productivity, shelf-life and consistency. All of this has created a result of the food that we eat having a massively hampered nutritional profile. Personally, I hypothesize that it's this same effect behind the fact that heirloom vegetables bought directly from small, independent farms tend to have a much higher subjective quality in taste. The changes we've experienced in our society have been drastic over the last few hundred years, and it's allowed our population to explode in such a way that hasn't been seen since the agricultural revolution, but nothing comes for free. > The real issue is that both sides push their own respective agenda, oftentimes driven by questionable motives, aiming to win or gain a upper hand at any cost. As is usually the case. Hence why I don't hesitate to call out the existence of dairy industry propaganda which erases the concept of non-bovine milk, and uses language like "necessity" to describe its products. Anybody even remotely versed in nutritional science will know that there is no essential nutrient with a singular source. You can even stay hydrated without actually drinking pure water for fucks sake, but it hasn't stopped charlatans from using misleading language to assert some ridiculous picture with no bearing to reality. > China is big It's important to note that that the time of these assimilations (~2000-300BCE) China was not even remotely close to what it was today. What is now South China was in fact a completely different society, and a precursor to what is now called Vietnam. Vietnam itself meaning "southern viets", and not in the 1960's sense.