Certain northern Africa cattle rearing tribes consume a blood and milk mixture, which they obtain by puncturing a neck vein of their cattle, and draining off a little blood. Apparently this is their primary article of food. Also I have read that if children stop drinking milk, they are likely to become lactose sensitive, but that continuing to drink milk into adulthood reduces the likelihood of developing sensitivity.
The whole anti-milk campaign is and has been anti-intellectual; the example that springs to mind is [unnamed idiot actress, busybody, and public scold] who parrots the claim that only humans drink the milk of other species — as if that is some kind of decisive argument (and is if she’s never seen a cat on a dairy farm, or anywhere else for that matter, enjoy cow’s milk). Humans are — like every thing that isn’t a plant — opportunistic feeders. And it isn’t a crime. Attempts to criminalize my eating habits will result in a lot of people not having anything at all to say about my eating habits. [and then ‘Civ cools down with a tall glass of milk]
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