It can be perfectly healthy for a body to go without milk. Think about what it really is - it's a nutrient filled liquid secreted from the mammary glands of lactating mothers (whether they be human or animal) with the biological intent of feeding their young. There is no reason for adults to have milk and it's a very common idea nowadays that that's why so many peoples' bodies can't process it - they're not meant to. There is also nothing in milk you can't get elsewhere. less

I don't eat dairy. In fact, in addition to helping my allergies, and lactose intolerance, getting dairy OUT of my diet, 100%, is one of the things that took my IBS from a 9 in intensity to about a 2. It took a year to get all the dairy proteins out of my body, and about 12 months for my body to recover from the damage done by the lactose. I simply don't touch the stuff, organic or not, it's still the lactational fluid from a bovine animal, and we really weren't meant to eat it.

I only eat butter on occasion, but noting else from the tit of a cow. (I learned by trial and error that butter has little lactose and few bovine proteins in it, so it's safer than milk or cheese etc) It just makes me so sick, and no mammal was meant to consume milk after weaning, and that means the milk of the animal's own species. OK. Off soap box now. (I have issues with dairy products, I don't think they are meant to be consumed by humans.)

I buy other things organic, but I prefer Whole Foods. I trust Whole Foods, I don't trust Wal Mart. less

Honestly, you really don't need milk. If you can't handle soy, and a lot of people can't, then either rice or almond (although if you go with almond, keep it to no more than once a week, because nuts can be allergenic, and people with allergies tend to develop more as they get older to the foods they eat the most) Also, I eat an "ice cream" made from coconut milk (it's not a nut, it's a seed) and it's wonderful stuff. The "cheese" I eat is soy, but they make some nice rice based cheeses, too. Also, there is one brand of almond based "cheese" but again, you don't want to eat it daily.

You don't need to drink milk, you aren't an infant or a toddler. My kids haven't had milk since they were toddlers, and that was only human milk. (although my youngest one does drink organic soy milk from time to time, but not every day) They nursed until they weaned themselves, then water became their main beverage, as is mine. (although I wasn't nursed for but a few weeks. My mom wasn't given the right information from "the doctors" and even though my dad's mom and grandmother and aunts knew EVERYTHING about breastfeeding, she didn't listen to them. It's water (or milk) under the bridge, so there's nothing anybody can do about it now.)

The soy stuff I eat is only organic and not genetically messed with. But, some people's systems can't handle soy, so if you can't stay away from it. less