Drink more milk!

A friend told me the other day that it was high time I stopped drinking regular milk and moved on to almond milk - apparently delicious and of a much higher nutritional value. "So what about my calcium intake?" I asked. "Oh, there's no calcium in milk any more", she replied, "cows don't get out in the fields and eat grass these days so milk isn't what it used to be!". Ye gods, what is the world coming to, I wonder? Anyway, I've checked online and cow's milk still has all that lovely calcium, even the watery fat-free variety and it's almond milk that doesn't do the business for healthy teeth and bones, unless it's full of supplements and who wants more stuff added to our food and drink?  As long as we buy organic milk, then we know that the trusty cows have been fed at least 60% of diet of grass and forage - that works for me, even though it's always that bit more expensive. But what's more worrying is a literally underlying problem affecting the land from which all crops are grown and that is falling levels of selenium. Selenium is a nutrient found in the soil which helps to protect our immune system and climate change is leading to lowering levels in areas of east England, mirroring the trend across parts of Asia and Africa. There's now an agricultural campaign to add minute supplements to field fertiliser rather than the possibility of us all having to take much more expensive supplements to our diets. I'll do all I can to keep my diet simple and supplement free but maybe that's an unrealistic notion these days.