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It is not about "sugar-free". It is about added artifical sweeteners. Not that one thinks they would add sugar tax to e.g. sparkling water...
why is that rational but 100% pure milk is ok?
the milk that we're sold is for fucking cows. how much more 'unnatural' can you get? would you go cuddle a cow and drink from its tit?
i don't even buy any of the dangers of artificial sweeteners. can you even create a study where someone is indulging in aspartame and also not eating/drinking one of the other 34983048304834 chemicals we're taking in on a daily basis?
even if it is bad on some level, fruit juice is worse strictly going by sugar/calorie content unless it's squeezed straight from the fruit, which nobody is doing, other than weirdos.
I would definitely not drink milk directly from a cow. That is something I leave to conservative idiots in the US.
As for artificial sweeteners, there are dozens of peer-reviewed studies on the dangers, and some of those chemical have already been taken off the market. Biological / pharmaceutical research has mastered to single out threats from single components long ago, so if they come to the conclusion that aspartame or others are bad, they have good reason to believe it actually was that components fault.
Is that really something you want these people to answer?
Some of the more stupid Americans are actually proud of drinking raw milk. A rather dangerous hobby, especially with the state of medical insurance in the US.