Milk is fucked. It comes from the inside of cows. We (humans) are the only species to drink another species milk. I think thats messed. Plus with all the crap that milk goes through before it even gets to the store it has got to be made unhealthy.
so pasteurization makes milk unhealthy? hmmmmmm......no, actually it makes it drinkable. oh btw, its worth noting thats its not only just humans that drink another species' milk, but its only in western culture that people drink milk beyond nursing age. what most people dont know is that lactose intolerance is natural, and to be able to digest lactose in adulthood is the result of a genetic deformity. so in short, yes, its fucked.
Here is what I wonder. Who was the first guy who walked up to a cow, grabbed it's teat, and said "I'm gonna squeeze this and drink whatever comes out." ?
I've often wondered the same thing, i mean, how is he gonna explain that to his buddies? How does someone even get that idea? But yeah, I agree that lactose intolerance is natural for most people, but Europeans have the ability to drink milk, which is probably part of why we're able to live in the northern reaches of that continent where farming would be really poor, like in Scandinavia. So, I guess I never thought of this much, but people who keep cows and goats in Africa and Asia just do it for the meat?
I guess the first person got the idea by seeing calves nurse...just like human infants nurse. They knew the milk was there and that it was apparently nutritious for the calves...and since cow's will continue to produce milk in a controlled situation,people must have gotten the idea to drink it themselves. I dunno though...just a guess at how it all started. It is pretty gross when you think about it...
or maby somebody saw a cow being sad in the field because it was filled with too much milk and it's baby had gotten traped in a bear trap so the cow had too much milk in it and a farmer guy who only used cow for its meat saw it and said " I should help it" and he was crazy so her started drinking the thick white liquid and saw that it was good in taste. And then he was like " this is the best "! and sold it as Magic Water. Before this guy started selling this stuff people relied on natural sources for calcium. but this Magic Water ( which was really the milk) had tricked them into thinking that the people needed it. You see there was a village living in the milk and they lived in the cows until they decided to move on. This village was poisonous to humans. They are what cause every disease. It took centuries of humans drinking milk do develop all the diseases though. peace.
The whole milk drinking is kinda weird. Statistics report that most orientals can't drink milk, but my dad's family is really big(japanese) and no one is lactose intolerant. None of my vietnamese or chinese friends are either. Maybe it's more the people still living in asia. I always imagine that if God exists he would have watched excitedly as the first humans walked around the beautiful planet he created. Then they started ignoring the bounty of nature and sbegan killing the animals and drinking their milk. If it were me I'd be thinking wtf? I provided everything they needed to coexist without killing, yet they just couldn't figure it out!
but they dont walk up to a cow and start drinking its milk, which is what the first person who ever drank milk did.