cheese

Rennet is a naturally occuring chemical/substance found in the stomachs of calves, lambs, kids (baby goats) etc. There is no pouring of milk into stomachs of any animal for transport in the origins of cheese. Simply kill a calf, lamb, kid, etc. and cut open it’s stomach ( a normal part of butchering any animal for the last say 100,000 years) and VOILA! There’s cheese inside. Stick your finger in and put a gob in your mouth. Yum! mockb1@yahoo.com

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I once read a book about our goverment’s plans in case of atomic war. In it, there was some advice from the dept. of agriculture. They speculated that after the big boom-booms, we might find ourselves with a lot of fresh milk that had been contaminated with radioactive fallout. Their advice was to make it into cheese as quickly as possible, the idea being that the cheese might last a year or more by which time the radioactivity will probably have decayed to the point that you could eat it. (By then you might be hungry enough to eat it, to.) At least, that was the theory.

I once read a book about our government’s plans in case of atomic war. In it, there was some advice from the dept. of agriculture. They speculated that after the big boom-booms, we might find ourselves with a lot of fresh milk that had been contaminated with radioactive fallout. Their advice was to make it into cheese as quickly as possible, the idea being that the cheese might last a year or more by which time the radioactivity will probably have decayed to the point that you could eat it. (By then you might be hungry enough to eat it, too.) At least, that was the theory.

Perhaps, but c’mon, how likely is anyone to attempt to eat the contents of a freshly killed goat’s stomach? It is also widely known that animal stomachs were very often used for storage and transport of liquids. The far more plausible scenario is the happy accident I posited.

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