Is going dairy-free healthy?

Eggs I can't say. We are told in Genesis that the earth provides us with food. Part of the curse was man having to work the earth for it to bring forth food, and bread is mentioned. It seems there is no question of using what grows from the earth, and after the fall it appeared that included animals.

Then later we have proof of animals being part of what we cannot consider unclean.

History shows all that, but history doesn't show cultures having dairy as a staple product, although there are plenty of ways for it to be so.

It just seems weird that it's so prevalent. It also seems weird to read that raw milk is so much easier to digest and much more healthy, but that it is very difficult or illegal to sell these products.

So yeah, this concerns me. It's the only food product my doctor ever mentioned avoiding after surgery or a pediatrician ever said to take kids off of when they were sick...dairy. Said it was too hard on the body when it is trying to heal because it's the hardest thing to digest.

If it's so healthy, why is it the toughest thing to digest? Maybe in raw form it isn't. I don't know. I suspect though, and am still looking into this.

 

Thanks Ben, for a well-reasoned post.
With my older three, they still drink milk, but in moderation. The oldest generally chooses not to drink non-organic milk.
The two younger are the ones I'm most concerned with as they drink it as often as possible and once I sat down and kinda analyzed what they want to eat or are offered at school, so much of it contains dairy.
The kick-off to all of this...my stepson was drinking tons and tons of milk. He had some behavior issues and physical stuff and I decided to take him off the tons of dairy and see if it helped.
It did, to a point. There were other major contributing factors to some of the changes, but I still think that dairy contributed and when I looked at what he and his sister WANTED to eat on a regular basis, a lot of dairy was involved.

Now I'm wondering if maybe all of us should limit it more because the closer I look at our diets, the more I find that dairy is involved. The more I read about processed dairy products, the worse it seems.

I need to figure out what a good balance is, whether it's a limited daily portion or made into something we only use on occasions and how to replace it in stuff I cook with. I love using real butter in desserts I make, use buttermilk in biscuits or pancakes, use milk in sauces or when making hot cereals and in some soups.

On top of that there's ricotta cheese in some of the Italian dishes I make, ricotta and cottage cheeses in a type of cold mix I use as the sauce on cold veggie pizza, then there's yogurt and when I'm sick I love frozen yogurt or soft serve ice cream. Creamer in coffee. Etc..