Liz, it has become my firm opinion that dairy milk is not good stuff for most human digestive systems...although I'm sure there are some people who can handle it okay. It depends on how your system works. A great many people have trouble digesting milk and dairy products.

Now edible plants...they are good stuff for human digestive systems, and rice milk or soya milk are simply products made from edible plants plus water.

I loved milk when I was a young child, but I found that by about the age of 6 or 7 I didn't like it at all anymore. It had become quite unpalatable as far as I was concerned. My body was telling me strongly "don't drink that stuff". Now that makes sense, because I was coming to the natural age where one is weaned off mother's milk and eating other stuff instead. All animals do that. They only drink milk when they are infants. After that they eat either plants...or fruits...or meat if they are predators...or all of those if they are omnivores.

My decision to substitute rice milk or soya milk for cow's milk is based on two things.

1. I don't like cow's milk anyway.

2. I don't think it's any good for my health or my digestive system...both of which don't react well to a diet heavy in dairy products (including cheese).

If dairy works for you, though, that's fine with me. We aren't all the same when it comes to diet.