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"No adult animal drinks milk."
A fact with no moral weight
They bring up a biological curiosity as if it settled the question. What matters is what happens to the animals.
Why it is weak
It's an appeal to nature. We do many things no other animal does, like cooking, and that doesn't make them wrong; other animals not drinking milk doesn't make milk wrong either.
And it leaves out what matters: what milk production does to cows and calves.
How to say it better
Talk about production: repeated pregnancies, separation of calves and slaughter of cows when production drops. That is what makes milk a moral problem.