Like toy trains, they’re meant for the kids, but daddy always ends up playing with them…
I’d rather gargle with Lye than hydroflouric acid. That stuff is caustic AND poisonous. Blech! And Clamato…yikes!
The problem with this logic is that it can’t address what humans should be eating after weaning.
Homo sapiens is an omnivore, descended from omnivores, with a digestive system that is typical of omnivores. Human cultures across the planet range from the Inuit, who eat an almost all-meat diet, to tropical cultures that eat almost an all-vegetarian diet.
Note the “almost all,” though. No culture has been discovered that is purely one or the other, or that will refuse the other when offered. All human cultures have been opportunistic omnivores that max out the available flora and fauna. Individuals, groups, sects, or religions inside of these cultures may restrict their diets, but humanity in toto eats every eatable food found on earth.
As far as we understand, this has been true forever. You can posit that we are supposed to eat only those foods that were available when homo sapiens first evolved. In fact, some people do - see the Paleolithic Diet. But the problem there is that we now know that homo sapiens came into being earlier and at different locations than previously thought, even by the proponents of this diet.
Should we restrict our foods to those found in certain African microclimates 180,000 B.P.? Can we even know what those are, beyond generalities of plant life and the fact that we find tools for hunting and butchering animals?
Well, we can’t restrict ourselves this way. First, most of those particular foods no longer exist. Second, well, we would all die of starvation.
Most people, and most scientists, would argue that our opportunistic omnivoric nature is what makes humans successful as a species. We eat thousands of foodstuffs other than dairy we weren’t meant to eat, whatever that means.
Unless you can make a case against all those foods, and provide an analysis of what we were designed to eat instead, this particular anti-dairy argument is meaningless.
I do not think that cow’s milk is the worst beverage on earth, I am just beginnning to believe that it may be one of the most nutritionally overrated.
No, that would be Southern Comfort.
Worst. Puking. Ever.
What else are you going to drink? Water? Fish fuck in it!
White chocolate comes out of Jon Voight’s back pimples, and you don’t see me complaining.
If I give you a dollar, would you promise to never say that again?
…says the man holding a Pepperidge Farms white chocolate macadamia cookie in his hand…
well what do you propose I put in my corn flakes?
Just use beer like everyone else.
What?
Not a bad idea, actually. The alcohol keeps nasty things from growing in it, and it’s full of carbohydrates and other nutrients. It’s liquid bread, man.
Germans are really good at making beer because up until fairly recently, many of them drank beer exclusively. Universal potable water systems are a quite modern development.
No, I wouldnt like that at all… now, if I took hold of those human mammary glands and something white squeezed out, then indeed I would be going “MMMM YUMMY!”. Pity it is that only women who recently had a baby got this ability and not every woman between puberty and menopause…
No, I wouldnt like that at all… now, if I took hold of those human mammary glands and something white squeezed out, then indeed I would be going “MMMM YUMMY!”. Pity it is that only women who recently had a baby got this ability and not every woman between puberty and menopause…
I dont drink cows milk simply because I, unlike the young calves have no desire to be fattened up which is exactly the purpose of cows milk.
Ever tried soya milk? Tastes bad but is good for you.
Here we go again:
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Not everyone hates the taste of milk!
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Some of us HAVE gotten said milk out of the cow all by ourselves ! I grew up in Saskatchewan, and spent several summers on various farms. The kids had to milk the cows in the morning - didn’t turn me off a bit. In fact, sometimes, I would put my head under and take a couple squirts right from the cow. Mmmm!
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All this talk about what humans should eat, and should do, and whatever is completely stupid. If you’re going to look at how humans lived thousands of years ago or whatever, you’d discover that we should all be naked, living in caves in the forest or something. Humans are not meant to live in houses, drive cars, go to movies, go to university, travel in airplanes, etc, etc. But I never see people making hare-brained agruments about that! So what if humans aren’t meant to drink milk! We do now! Hurray for evolution!
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As for making you fat, ever heard of skim milk?
Skim milk?
Skim milk…
Oh Skim MILK!
Oh yes i drink lots of water, just without the white colouring.
Actually, I believe a study came out on Friday in the popular press which showed that children who consume more than two dairy servings a day had significantly less body fat than children who did not consumed less, and less than children that really imbibed. I do not remember the difference between “moderate” drinkers and non-drinkers. The studies conclusion was not that children that do not drink milk tend to do so because they drink too much soda. (Presumably that was statistically accounted for.) The conclusion was that something about about dairy products intefered with the body’s ability to stockpile fat.
Sorry but thats drivel. Theres no known inhibitor that prevents the body from converting unused calories into fat.
Though i wish there were.
Here’s a report on that study, with a less-than-adequate explanation:
Is that paragraph your own? It sounds very familiar.