Cow Milk or Soy Milk?

i don't drink milk, but use it in cereal. i have to say i "tried" soy one time and that is all i use now! i love it. even just the original flavor-- is totally awesome in oatmeal and cereal. it's not bad priced at trader joes. i'm the only one in the house who uses it and i only use for breakfast, so it's not too bad. it also has helped me cut down on the artificial sweetners i use (splenda/equal).

oh, i tried it for the health benefits. i keep using it for both health and taste.

the chocalate is very delicious too!

I'm lactose intolerant...so soy for me.  But during my research into lactose intolerance once I found out that was my problem, I started to come around to Lisa's way of thinking.  Between the science, the stats, and my body's way of dealing with cow's milk....I was sold on soy being the way to go.

Definately Soy Milk.  It is healther than cow milk and can change flavors when it gets boring.

How is it healthier? What do you mean by healthier?  (And my cow's milk becomes chocolate very easily, and sometimes I heat it up and add vanilla and almond extract and.. mmmm) 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040507083422.htm For the stuff that Hollis has mentioned.

As to the idea that we are not meant to consume cow's milk:

http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/food/soy_story.html

From the Mothering article (which has full references in a link at the bottom): Soy did not become human food until late in the Chou Dynasty (1134-246 B.C.), when the Chinese developed a fermentation process to make soybean paste, best known today by its Japanese name, miso.

From http://archaeology.about.com/od/domestications/qt/cattle.htm: The taurine (humpless, B. taurus) was probably domesticated somewhere in the Fertile Crescent about 8,000 years ago. Taurine cattle were apparently traded across the planet, and appear in archaeological sites of northeastern Asia (China, Mongolia, Korea) about 5000 years ago.

We have been consuming cow's milk for a lot longer than we have been consuming soy (and that doesn't account for the fact that traditional, fermented soy products are much different than modern soy milk). I think it could be easily argued that we are not meant to consume either (and that is argued by proponents of the Paleo/Caveman Diet). However, I love me some cheese, so I eat it anyhow!

WHOLE cow's milk. I don't care for the 2% or 1% - I want the real deal with as much butter fat as is 'normal' for whole milk.

I tried soy milk but didn't like the taste much. I kept trying it, thinking I'd acquire the taste but it didn't happen.

FROSTY WHOLE MILK to eat with warm chocolate chip cookies. Or peanut butter cookies. Or in my cereal. I don't drink milk unless I'm washing down something else.

I can do whole milk in coffee, but Ice Cold Skim is yummy for drinking, cereal etc.  I think when I was a kid I drank whole, but I don't remember weaning myself... 

I don't remember the last glass of milk I drank, but it is soy for cereal and other applciations - dashed into a breakfast smoothie.  Don't like the idea of dairy milk.  I do like good cheeses (not that "american cheez crap" but it makes me farty and constipated.    Husband is majorly lactose intollerent.  So we generally avoid dairy altogether.

Unscientific observation - months I consume more soy milk, my periods are lighter.