Posted on 12/22/2012 1:15:43 PM PST by george76
Sure they do. You put down a bowl of cow milk and every other mammal and a few non-mammals (snakes and such) will drink it.
Do animals domesticate other animals for their milk? Different story. Of course they don't. They don't plant and grow food, cook food or wear clothing either. You going to give up that too?
This is a pretty dumb statement. Bowls of cow milk, via jugs of cow milk, are not readily available in the animal kingdom.
However, if you put a bowl of milk out on the side of the street, every dog and cat in the neighborhood would fight over it. Put in a baby bottle...and apes drink it. Put it in a trof...and elephants would drink it.
No...I really don't see many animals in the wild turning down a free drink. They don't look at it and say to themselves: Hmmm...that is milk from another animal. I ain't drinking that.
They do what I do. YUM ;-P
Milk drinking has been related to the bad health effects of intestinal colic, intestinal irritation, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergic reactions in infants and children as well as infections such as salmonella, viral infection with bovine leukemia virus or an AIDS-like virus, and childhood diabetes. Then there is the concern of contamination of milk by blood and white cells. (pus)
In adults the problems seemed centered more around heart disease and arthritis, allergy, sinusitis, and the more serious questions of leukemia, lymphoma and cancer.
Other than that (according to the government and the dairy lobby) it's really really good for you..."The perfect food"
(Did I forget to mention the growth hormones and pesticide residues?)
I may have missed the sarc, but aren’t all children going to die? at some point. we all will
when, where, why and by who’s hand is not revealed, but we gonna die.
Exactly!
If the price really did go up, wouldnt local providers on family dairy farms (for those of you in the city, these dont really exist anymore), be able to be competative again? Wouldnt that increased supply drive the price down some and get some of that subsidised fallow off of the taxpayers back? Wouldnt California dairy subsidy farmers have to shut down?
If this really happened it would suck for a family with kids (like mine) but in the long run would probably to everyones benefit.
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