# What Kinds Of Milk Do People Routinely Drink

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 8, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kinds-of-milk-do-people-routinely-drink/471778 "2008-11-08T05:50:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kinds-of-milk-do-people-routinely-drink/471778/1 "2008-11-08T05:50:39Z")

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I was looking at the website for America’s Dairy Farmers Association and they listed people routinely drinking milk from the following animals  
Cow  
[ol]  
[li]Cow[/li][li]Water Buffalo[/li][li]Goat[/li][li]Reindeer[/li][li]Horse[/li][li]Sheep[/li][li]Camel[/li][li]Yak[/li][/ol]

I am assuming some of these like sheep are probably used in making cheese more so than drinking straight. I know kumis is correctly made with mare’s milk.

Are there any other kinds of milk humans routinely drink. I realize you could drink any milk from any mammal, I was wondering about ones other culture’s routinely use.

Of course you’d have to add human milk to that list 🙂

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kinds-of-milk-do-people-routinely-drink/471778/2 "2008-11-08T15:27:47Z")

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Bison milk is used to make some commercial gouda cheeses.  
[http://www.vindepayswines.com/4\_\_cheese\_\_\_pate](http://www.vindepayswines.com/4 __cheese___ pate)

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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kinds-of-milk-do-people-routinely-drink/471778/3 "2008-11-09T08:15:18Z")

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Given the number of breast-fed babies in the world, I’d suspect human milk belongs somewhere in the midrange of that list.

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**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kinds-of-milk-do-people-routinely-drink/471778/4 "2008-11-09T10:25:13Z")

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Tiger’s Milk.

According to Wikipedia, it’s a nutrition bar brand