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RE: What Milk Is Best? Environment, Cows, Almonds, and You
I wonder what the ratios of cholesterol (remember your brain is mostly cholesterol, and lack of cholesterol has been linked to alzheimers and dementia), protein, saturated fat (also very essential, you need about 40 g/ 150 pounds/day), enzymes and minerals for a gallon of almond milk compared to a gallon of raw cow milk, and exactly how efficient is the almond compared to the cow at using about the same amount of water per gallon. I think that if you consider the concentration and the ratios you'd find there is hardly a case for almond milk.
https://www.westonaprice.org/not-all-raw-milk-is-produced-equally/
https://www.realmilk.com/
http://www.raw-milk-facts.com/About_Raw_Milk.html
Thanks for citing sources and contributing to discussion @baah! Interesting points. While we need saturated fats, proteins, cholesterol, and other compounds to stay healthy, these are not exclusively found in milk. If you are looking consume these compounds specifically, then almond milk would not help.
Side note: I am skeptical of information that comes from sites that have potential conflicts of interests! Information about raw milk from a site that promotes raw milk should be taken with a grain of salt.
Understandably, the point was that for those 30 gallons of water you could be producing something that is essentially unmatched by the almond. One gallon of raw milk cannot be compared with one gallon of home made almond milk, and while there's a lot of things that have saturated fat, cholesterol, there isn't any plant that has that nutritional concentration plus a lot of things are found exclusively in mammalian milk and not plants.
Have you look at the studies done on raw milk?