That packet of cheese and creamy yoghurt is completely finished. You're steadfastly refusing to buy anymore dairy products. Don't panic because you will be absolutely amazed to find a huge range of products on the market which taste as good as their dairy counterpart and, better still, are healthier for you. Healthy Eating Many people avoid dairy products for health reasons. Also, allergy to cow's milk may affect 75 in 1000 babies, causing frequent diarrhoea, repeated vomiting, persistent colic, eczema, bronchitis and asthma.
Many more people avoid dairy products because of the plight of the dairy cow and calf.
To produce milk, it is necessary for the cow to produce a calf. The calf is torn from her mother within hours or days of birth. Instead of producing 3 litres of milk a day for her calf, as would be natural, she is engineered to produce 30 litres for human consumption. The natural lifespan of a cow is around 20 years or more but they may be slaughtered at 30 months for meat. Just because you have given up dairy milk doesn't mean you have to drink black tea or miss out on icecream or chocolate.