Instigator / Pro
3
1495
rating
47
debates
48.94%
won
Topic
#801
organic milk is better for you than non-organic milk
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 1 vote and with 4 points ahead, the winner is...
RationalMadman
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 3
- Time for argument
- Three days
- Max argument characters
- 30,000
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Con
7
1702
rating
574
debates
67.86%
won
Description
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Round 1
Since milk is an organic substance which comes from the breasts of mammals, all milk is organic. Therefor non-organic milk cannot possibly be better for you, because it doesn't even exist.
Path 1 - Something is actually just as worse as nothing as it is better.
Let's operate in a world where there's only organic milk by default and theoretically concede that to Pro in this bubble of logic. Inside this bubble, we find that all the harms milk can and would cause, such as cholesterol issues, too much calcium leading to kidney stones and a variety of other issues (Pro didn't source, so why should Con for this Round?) end up being incapable of being reached by the non-existent non-organic milk. Something vs nothing means the something does more harm. Even if the something is arguably also doing more beneficial it then leads us to path 2 that Con can and must take:
Path 2 - Whether or not non-organic milk is real, 'better for you' can only ever apply when it is followed later by a 'with regards to X' or 'for purpose X'.
There is no context in this debate provided by Pro for what exactly 'better' is referring to. If I am taller than you, I am better at things that height gives and worse at things that being short give. The exact 'benefits' are also drawbacks when no end goal is in sight to relate things to.
Better at what?????? Everything? Nothing? Better at nothing defeats itself because 'better at' becomes negated.
Whichever path Pro does down, Pro has lost. You can't be 'better than nothing at an unnamed thing' non-organic milk doesn't exist, so it has zero harms. Checkmate?
Round 2
Let's operate in a world where there's only organic milk by default and theoretically concede that to Pro in this bubble of logic. Inside this bubble, we find that all the harms milk can and would cause, such as cholesterol issues, too much calcium leading to kidney stones and a variety of other issues
This is about which is better not which is worse. Besides, if you drink milk in the proper moderation and drink good quality milk all those problems can be avoided whereas non existent milk can provide no nutrients or happiness for your tastebuds. You can't even mix chocolate with it or put it in your cinnamon squares.
There is no context in this debate provided by Pro for what exactly 'better' is referring to. If I am taller than you, I am better at things that height gives and worse at things that being short give. The exact 'benefits' are also drawbacks when no end goal is in sight to relate things to.
Better means health benefits and deliciousness. Nothingness has no health benefits or deliciousness.
Drawbacks of milk include lactose, cholesterol and actually the calcium and 'good stuff' all have drawbacks too potentially. Non-organic milk, a future product that will be synthesised without any animal organs required, would have none of these drawbacks.
In fact lactose-free milk isn't organic and neither is powdered milk. One can also take note that milk that is skimmed or semi-skimmed isn't natural either. The reason is that these all involve denaturing and/or permanently altering what was there in the organic milk.
(of food or farming methods) produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial chemicals.
It is clear that Pro made a resolution to bait people that relies solely on the following definitions of organic:
1 Relating to or derived from living matter.1.1Chemistry Relating to or denoting compounds containing carbon (other than simple binary compounds and salts) and chiefly or ultimately of biological origin.Compare with inorganic
The problem is that even combining these, it becomes clear that the milk that is treated to reduce the lactose, fat and even add a flavouring to it, is all inorganic in its ultimate form as we must respect all definitions of organic since none was agreed upon by both debaters.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose is a sugar found only in milk, but it is also present in dairy products and food items made with milk derivatives.A lactose intolerance is different from a milk allergy. In a milk allergy, the body reacts to milk proteins, not milk sugar. Milk allergy can result in severe symptoms, including anaphylaxis.A person with a severe lactose intolerance may have to avoid not only milk and milk products, such as ice cream, but other processed foods containing milk powder, whey, and so on.Lactose intolerance is thought to affect between 30 million and 50 million Americans to some degree.Symptoms[abdominal pain]Drinking milk can cause discomfort in people with a lactase deficiency.A person with lactose intolerance will experience symptoms after consuming milk or some dairy product that contains lactose.Symptoms can range from mild discomfort to a severe reaction, depending on how much lactase the person produces, and how much dairy produce they consume.They include:
- flatulence
- bloating
- abdominal pains
- nausea
- diarrhea
The person may have a sudden urge to use the bathroom 1 to 2 hours after consuming lactose. In severe cases, dehydration may occur.
The argument against this will be sheep and goat's milk. This is where the following need to be considered:
How Skim Milk Is MadeThe quicker, modernized way of making low-fat and skim milks is to place the whole milk into a machine called a centrifugal separator, which spins some or all of the fat globules out of the milk. This occurs before the milk is homogenized, a process which reduces all the milk particles to the same size so that natural separation doesn’t occur anymore.Skim Milk AdditivesFederal law mandates that most skim milk has to be fortified with vitamin A and sometimes vitamin D. This is due to the fact that even though whole milk naturally has a fair amount of both, the vitamins are fat soluble and thus lost when the milk fat is removed during the skimming process.Milk solids in the form of dried milk are also added since they contain proteins that help thicken the watery consistency of skim milk.
Interestingly, it's only healthy when non-organically reinforced with vitamin A and D.
I have also explored the impossibility of 'better than'.
You cannot say anything is better than anything else without a context to be better than that thing at.
If non-organic milk really doesn't exist (which is a lie, it does) then it has zero drawbacks. Benefits don't outweigh drawbacks without a scaling system to prove it to be true.
Round 3
If you're going to argue that any inorganic compound in milk makes it not organic than I will argue that any organic compound makes it organic, but it is always mostly an organic substance because it comes from mammals teats by definition.
Pro has failed to objectively prove the resolution true by anything other than subjective 'better benefits' being subjectively weighed as better and worth than the objective drawbacks they come at the price of.
