Most restaurants have milk. Just ask for it and stop hanging out with drunks.
Gotta be honest here, I'd rather hang out with drunks than a bunch of milk chugging tea totalers.
What if it's Moloko Plus
Then, I rekon I'd say. "Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?"
I'm lactose intolerant so I don't go around in public drinking glasses of milk.
I'm also a recovering alcoholic so I also don't go around public drinking alcohol.
Then what do you do with your life?!
Not drinking anymore has allowed me to travel the world to five continents, 40 countries, multiple cruises and meet people from all over the world. It's amazing how much money and time you save when you stop drinking, smoking and drugging. It also allowed me to run a small business fixing building repairing houses for over 30 years and save enough money and time and energy to own my own house, multiple vehicles and two other recreational properties.
I still drink milk sometimes though ... just not in public because it makes me fart.
Aye good for you friend! Rereading my comment I realize it probably came off as criticizing your sobriety, so I just wanna clarify I didn't mean that at all! It was just supposed to be a weird joke, like, 'what on earth do you do if not walk around in public all day drinking milk/alcohol?'
But that's fuckin baller, I'm glad you're enjoying your life, it sounds awesome! (And I feel you, I'm lactose intolerant too, so most dairy consumption is done in private XD)
I probably did come off defensive and my apologies as well for any bad feelings .... man I love this community ... thanks for clarifying ... I don't who did right or wrong (or even if anyone did or not) ... all I know is that you made me feel good and I think that's all that matters ... I'll raise a glass of milk to you (I don't think you'll want to sit next to me tho)
Thats dope, man, congrats. On the sobriety, not the farting. Im approaching 1yr sober and Ive noticed massive improvements in the quality of my life and my bank balance.
I'm amazed by family members, friends, and coworkers that smoke like chimneys. I ask them how much their pack a day habit costs and I'm floored. Even the lower tax native smokes are not cheap.
Then throw in the booze and drugs it's no wonder why they can't afford a lot of basic things. I have a addictive personality at times but thankfully I'm too cheap for those things and would rather travel, own the toys, vehicles etc.
I do have an addiction to sweets and ice cream which gives me the same gas issues.
It's an addiction so the cost is, if not irrelevant, but a mere nuisance. Not a deal breaker in any case.
They stay inside drinking milk and painting the walls brown while being a closet drunk who hides their liquor in the toilet tank, obviously.
Haha apparently not, if you read their other comment it sounds like they're doin fine
Just add some coffee to your milk.
Or amphetamines
I prefer shrooms
Its not that I judge public milk drinkers. I just don't trust public milk.
I have some private milk I have made if you trust that
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Drinking milk in public - weird.
Drinking a milk and frozen cream smoothie in public - perfectly normal.
I recently stopped drinking, just kind of organically. I cut down to help cut some calories and ended up stopping altogether.
The pressure is weird at any sort of event. I declined some champagne that was being passed around and the response was "why not? It's free!"
I can't drink alcohol for medical reasons. It interacts badly with one of my prescriptions. It's really weird how often I have to tell people about it. Nobody really pressures me after I say "medical reasons", of course... but I'm very familiar with that confusion people get.
For me it's basically the same reason I don't drink soda. And yet no one questions me when I have an iced tea instead of a soda, but not drinking alcohol requires an explanation.
You know what I hate? In the rare times I order tea at a restaurant (they never boil the water, so it's almost always weak), I ask for milk instead of cream and the waiter looks at me like I asked for some sugar to put on my steak.
Tea with milk is the best thing ever. Everybody always looks at me weird when I put milk in my tea. They're just missing out, to be honest.
The worst part is that one of my friends doesn't mind putting milk in Pepsi but has the audacity to look at me funny when I put milk in tea.
Milk in Pepsi? What shortcircuited in their brain to make that taste good to them?
Too much Laverne and Shirley.
I legitimately can't comprehend what this would taste like
I've made this mistake when visiting US customers. Tea is not as common in Canada as coffee but it's still much more common than Coke with your breakfast. Most place carry regular and herbal teas, even coffee shops.
I sometimes forget when going for a business lunch and order tea in some US restaurants. One time they brought out the old school full size tea pot for 6. Mr Belvedere would have been proud. The milk was a bit of a juggle for them too versus cream in those little plastic cups.
Now I just stick with coffee or ice tea when south.
I really do not like coffee, but I will tolerate iced tea (can't say I love it either). I don't like soft drinks, so it's pretty much iced tea or water for me if I go out.
I love both but I grew up guzzling coffee during the day, then our grandparents would serve us orange pekoe tea with dinner to calm us down. This was after spiking our coffee with sugar cubes and condensed milk which is like liquid sugar. I'm amazed we ever slept. At least the caffeine kept us up through the sugar crashes.
I use to drink a lot of pop/soda too. Root Beer was my choice. These days it's usually water and mostly ice tea if it's not water. In my parts tea is sweetened so it's my adult pop but I try to avoid it. I've consumed enough sugar for several lifetimes already.
It depends on the kind of milk
In a latte it's very acceptable
sonetimes I stop and get a single serving bottle of milk at the store to drink on my walk home from work and always feel weird if people see me drinking it... guess now I know I'm not the only one.
For awhile chocolate milk was a big thing post workout at the gym. I never wanted to chug milk most of the time let alone chocolate milk after a workout. Water is just fine thanks
Milk doesn't have a 50% markup and can make people dance, fight, or fuck
You should watch videos online
Evergreen wisdom
If you get it on tap then one of those 3 will happen
This post reminded me how much I cut back on alcohol. This year, I have been drinking 3 times, on my b-day, visiting a friend and once when a friend was over. I'm a mental wreck (clinical depression) so I cannot say I'm feeling better. Maybe I would feel worse if I drank more tho.
Tried drinking milk?
Lactose intolerance leaves me with only buttermilk or plant-based products. Although I still eat cheeses when I feel okay to spend half an hour on the toilet.
"MILK WAS A BAD CHOICE!"
alcohol withers your body so much, maybe you don't feel it now, but maybe one day you will wake up looking 20y older than you supposed to be. maybe it sounds harsh, but thas what i fear the most. Thats why i rarely go out - all my friends i know keep drinking, and without participating in it there's really not much to do. I take drinks now or then, but getting shit faced and spending whole Saturday hangover seems kind waste of free time.
Fuck milk tho.
I bet you're fun at parties...
Is expressing a reasonable concern that they have difficulty socialising without doing activities they don't enjoy which have health consequences they want to avoid actually something that deserves that comment?
I'm sorry why are people accepting the premise that it's weird to drink milk in public? Seems made up.
If someone gives you shit for drinking Milk you break their bones. They'd be wishing they drank all that milk for Good, Strong bones 𦴠π₯
Shout out to all my lactose ninjas that never broke a bone lol.
βSir, that is nastyβ
What about bull milk?
In Melbourne, 99% of drinks seen in public are barista coffee.
Fun fact: Adelaide is the only city in the world where iced coffee outsells Coca Cola.
Solution: put milk in a coffee cup
Solution to standing out, not to the underlying problem of milk being weird
the underlying problem of milk being weird
But it's the basis for some really good stuff;
Cheese is next level weird when you think about it, especially aged ones, but I must say I find a great variety of them really delicious.
Some of them are very much essential in my favorite foods. Butter as well as cream is nice too.
Ice cream!
Eating dairy-based food in public isn't weird. So that's another solution; Eat an ice cream with whipped cream, a pizza with four different cheeses, or just brioche bread and butter!
However, if you want to drink the milk, you better shake it first with some vanilla, strawberry or chocolate ice cream. Milkshakes are totally accepted.
good
Norway.
That's only because a glass of milk is kind of gross.
u wot
Only the cow kind.
#SoyMilkSupremacy
Oat milk. Oat
g < -- you dropped this. Goat milk
Oat milk is the goat milk.
As a vegan, I think this is the way it should be.
Imagine seeing a grown ass man sucking on a titty in public. Weird as fuck, yet, somehow conceivably less fucked up if it was a cow.
Society is a strange mistress.
But why is it less weird to suck on rotten plant ovaries? That's what alcohol is. Food is fucking weird.
He ain't bringing a live cow in the park to drink it's bottled
Sure. Glugging down the lactation of other species intended for their babies is weird. It's weird and should be more stigmatized.
Peak Lemmy for me is reading shit like this and being unsure if it is a joke or not
Hahaha, me too.
I do think it is super weird to drink the breast milk of other animals. At the same time, I wouldn't say that it's a topic I take very seriously.
mfw I found out oats can lactate
Oats, goats, stoats, all of 'em
Are you saying it'd be less weird to glug down human milk?
Well, yes, since we already do that. And human milk is at least from our species.
I personally think that would be very weird, but less weird than drinking the breast milk of other species.
I'll refer you to another response from this wonderfully lively thread:
""What do you like to drink?"
"Milk."
"What's that?"
"This breast juice from other animals. It's super healthy for the percentage of our population that can digest it."
"Oh...Why from other animals?"
"Well, we're not going to drink human breast milk, that would be gross. I mean, we give it to babies. Cow and goat lactation, though, that's for grown-ups.""
Fair enough. Like the other commenter said in response, it's good to remember that weird doesn't mean bad, but you're not wrong, it is pretty weird lol. The world is a goofy place :)
Username checks out
I was confused so I googled my name, and apparently kΓ€se means nonsense in German, so that's cool! Is that why you said that?
KΓ€se in German means cheese. A dairy product. Therefore my comment.
But you are not wrong, it is colloquially used to describe somebody talking rubbish in the following sentences: Du redest KΓ€se. Das ist doch KΓ€se.
Oh cool!! Thanks for the explanation
Agreed, there are tons of weird and goofy things everywhere. They don't bother me, but I notice and appreciate them.
Drinking milk from other species is just one of the most common weird ones and one that I don't think we examine fundamentally often enough haha. Plus I always think it's funny.
I always think of that. Tom Green skit where he drank milk straight from the udder of a cow and the ostensible joke is like look how crazy this guy is that he's willing to drink milk straight from the cow!
But that's basically what everybody is doing, in my head anyway whenever I see someone drinking milk. It's fun up there, in my head.
You could make a similar argument as to why we eat animal meat instead of human meat and it would be just as stupid.
Not dissing your argument at all, but my first thought was of babies eating little pieces of human flesh and it made me giggle. Well now that I wrote I down it just sounds freaky, but in my head it sounded silly Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Go on?
You're trying to make it seem like drinking milk is weird because it comes from an animal other than humans. But nearly all the food anyone eats comes from something that's not a human.
You're also ignoring one of the big reasons we don't drink human milk for longer - most human mothers stop producing milk after a certain length of time, whereas cows and goats and the like produce it more regularly, for longer periods of time.
Cows also stop producing milk naturally.
You only think they don't because we force-impregnate the eugenics cows to be pregnant and lactating all the time. When they have their babies, the baby is taken away immediately and the cow is force-impregnated again 6 weeks later. After a few years, the cow is killed and becomes deli meat.
That is a strange horror show you are cheerleading for as "normal".
Also, stop pretending I'm saying things I'm not. It didn't work for the others and it won't work for you.
If we think about this way, yes it is indeed pretty weird but it has really great nutrients which are crucial for children to grow in a healthy way (in moderation just like with any other food, fruit, vegetable).
I think milk has vitamins and nutrients as well, vitamins and nutrients that can be easily supplemented by other dietary sources.
It's much more the fact that it's just day to day normal to drink breast milk from other animals.
"What do you like to drink?"
"Milk."
"What's that?"
"This breast juice from other animals. It's super healthy for the percentage of our population that can digest it."
"Oh...Why from other animals?"
"Well, we're not going to drink human breast milk, that would be gross. I mean, we give it to babies. Cow and goat lactation, though, that's for grown-ups."
I don't think "it's weird therefore bad" is a good argument. If you're gonna argue for veganism (which I don't have a problem work doing!) I think there are way, way better reasons.
I agree, can you point me to whichever commenter told you it was bad?
I'm not big into veganism myself, but feel free to spread your vegan wings here if you like.
Seems as appropriate a place as any.
"it's weird and should be more stigmatized" that seems to be making a moral claim right? I guess you never explicitly said that it's because it's weird that it should be stigmatized, but it certainly seemed to be structured like that.
And ah maybe I misunderstood, what you were saying just sounds like how a lot of ppl talk about it on the vegan forums I used to regular, lmao.
If the original comment was truly a sarcasm then I give a huge applause for Varyk. It's certainly 200 IQ level.
I'm not sure what triggers a moral defense there, except for the traditional context of the word "stigma", maybe? Yeah, might have taken it one assumption too far.
I guess you can make a moral argument against drinking milk because of factory farming infrastructure, but even with factory farming I think anyone would find it easier to argue against the mass slaughter in horrific conditions before the milk charge would make waves.
Even though drinking xeno-boob-juice is super weird.
So you used to be a vegan? Or you just crashed their forums?
Yeah I was talking about milks too. Probably it's relatively easy to supplement milk with other sources but are those choice economically viable? Protein powders are a bit expensive + as an average joe, payin 3x+ more for plant based milk products are bit too much for me currently, but a 2x could convince me to opt for a plant based one. I'm not really knowledgable in this area, there must be some other options too for replacing milk in a cost effective way.
Supplements are cheaper than milk. If the main concern is about d3, you can buy hundreds of high dose d3 supplements for like 10 bucks.
I'm checking.
Costco, no sale, 500 iu d3, 600 gels.
CVS, 5$, 400iu d3 for 100 gels.
Supplements are pretty available.
Protein? Meat. Quinoa. Protein is easier and cheaper, but d3 is straightforward and available also.
Yeah these are good options, though I'm an europoor I believe you, but personally I'm more likely interested in a milk alternative.
Yeast is the way to look in terms of a realistic cost effective nutritious alternative to milk that tastes and feels similar. I think anyway. Synthesized yeast proteins, acids and fats is a pretty interesting field.
We can just program yeast to incorporate a certain amount of D3, or whatever other detail of nutrition we care for, within the milk or other substance they produce.
Damn yeast as a viable alternative? Now that was an unexpected one, thank you for the info!
Oh, it's super cool. Scientists were able to persuade yeasts to produce all sorts of things in small colonies decades ago, but there are actual companies now that the technology has matured that are trying to bring yeast farms into commercial scale. And yeasts are so variable in their strains and productions that you could basically make a yeast produce any combination of protein, fats and acids that you'd like. They're hoping to synthesize biodegradable plastics, milks, it sounds like nearly anything organic should be able to be synthesized via yeast.
Yeah, check it out, yeast farming is super cool.
I love milk in my tea and cream in my coffee not to mention ice cream but it's still meant for helping calfs grow quickly into cows at the same time. We are talking huge gains quickly here.
Some argue it's why north American kids grow up so much faster and bigger than our Asian counterparts where milk and cheese is not as huge part of their diets. The kids hit puberty sooner too as a result. That's changing in other parts of the world as cheese and milk make their ways into the diets even in places that never understood why Americans eat so much cheese on everything.
Low fat products created enormous sources of removed fat that could be turned into all kinds of dairy products including cheeses. It's also heavily subsidized by government too. Dairy is so cheap in the US as a result compared to even Canada.
I don't guzzle milk anymore like I did as a teen due to the amount of phlegm the body can create with its consumption. I've never forgotten a health video years ago that equated milk to drinking a glass of puss due to the things done to cows to make commercial milk.
I guess in my mind cheese is adjacent but not milk, but that's just fooling myself as I eat my cheese.
It's a huge industry in the west and I don't think we will ever not see how great milk is for us. A lot is dedicated to keep those consumption numbers up and I do like my dairy products.
Wow! I think I had actually blocked out that pus memory but as soon as you said it my brain was like. Oh yeah you hated that, so I might have seen that.
We need vitamin D3, and there aren't that many sources you can get it from.
Most of the useful things in milk are there because we artificially added them in. There is no real reason for this, it's just what we have been doing for a long time
You can get all the vitamin D you need from just 10-30 minutes midday a few times a week.
Also, cow's milk doesn't naturally contain vitamin D. Vitamin D is added to cow's milk and is even required by law in some countries (Canada and Sweden). Might as well just drink any milk alternative fortified with vitamin D.
You can get all the vitamin D you need from just 10-30 minutes midday a few times a week.
Sure, I'm not arguing against that. Just pointing out there aren't that many sources. And there are a lot of reasons people can't go outside whenever they want to, biggest one for me is it gets really cold during the winter. No way I'm going outside to hang out when it's 10 degrees outside.
If only humans could make their own vitamin D. Oh, wait
The major natural source of vitamin D is synthesis of cholecalciferol in the lower layers of the epidermis of the skin, through a photochemical reaction of UVB light, from the sun exposure (specifically UVB radiation) or UVB lamps.
Sure you can, but there's also winter months where you can't really go outside.
Thanks for pointing that out.
In the winter, only 10 percent of the body is exposed, and nearly 2 hours of sun exposure at noon is needed to produce a sufficient amount of vitamin D.
So I'm supposed to be outside for two hours in -20 degree weather to get my Vitamin D just so I can survive?
There aren't? Fish right? Isn't that what fish and fish oil is all about? I think there are plenty of dietary sources of D3 beyond breast milk, if that's the issue.
Fish and eggs yes. But if you eat fish all the time, you'll find you have a different issue with mercury poisoning. Sources of vitamin D are low, so some foods and drinks get fortified with vitamin d. It isnt naturally found in anything but fish, beef liver, and egg yolk.
Eat fish oil instead of fish if you're worried about mercury.
As for d3 only being found in only a few foods? That can't be correct.
Mushrooms, oranges, almonds, and we aren't even addressing the very cheap d3 supplements.
All other mammals not drinking milk past infancy: Am I a joke to you?
Literally all you need to do is touch grass a few times a week.
that's not a good argument. Other animals doesn't cook food or wear clothes.
we do, since both things are older than our species, so we evolved this way. We'd die without cooking and clothes.
domestic animals and drinking milk are a newer thing, but our species do this weird things all the time.
that being said, vitamin D can be foud elsewhere lol
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for milk past infancy. It's all culture and marketing.
Just because we do those things you mentioned doesn't mean they're necessary. In fact, I assure you, neither clothes nor cooking are strictly necessary for an individual's survival. They're convenient and comfortable, but not physiologically necessary. Obviously we'd freeze in cold climates, but there are plenty of places on earth we could survive well enough without.
We do need vitamin D to survive, but you can literally just get it directly from sunlight. The more time you spend inside, and the more thoroughly you clothe yourself, the more likely you are to need to supplement it. Simple as. You only need 30m outside 3x a week (2hrs in winter regions).
Another funny thing about milk, is that all the natural vitamin A and D is removed in processing. They literally have to re-fortify it again, so the only reason it's billed as this "healthy" thing is because it's basically a lab-made liquid vitamin.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for chocolate. It's all culture and marketing.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for coffee. It's all culture and marketing.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for beer. It's all culture and marketing.
You can apply that to virtually anything we consume that isn't plants or meat.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for Lemmy. Itβs all tankies and linux users.
Hey now! I'll have you know that only about a third of my computers run Linux right now
Yes, exactly, now you're getting it! Glad we agree. The entire argument being made here is a purely normative one, not of necessity.
More weird than eating other things not intended for you to eat like animal meats?
Weirder? Sure.
What gives you the idea that eating animal meat is unintentional?
I can think of plenty of examples of one animal eating the meat of another, but only one example of a majority of a species drinking the breast milk of another species.
So yeah, drinking milk seems weirder to me than eating meat.
I dont know man. Ants are farming aphids for their sugary digestive secrets aka their shit. Bears eat Honey, which to all logic remains half digested bee-spit. Praying Mantis cut off the head off their mate after mating and eat it. Anglerfish males are not the mighty toothed beasts, but weird little parasites that nist themselves in the females and eat them from the inside until the female just lays its eggs before death.
So humans drinking other animals milk is maybe unique, but certainly not more weird than other ways of procurung nutrition, that nature invented.
I don't think anyone claimed drinking the breast milk of other species is the weirdest thing on the planet, but I'm not sure your examples quite hit that level, although ants and aphids is a point.
I guess the counterpoint is that aphid secretions are nontoxic and largely sugar, while humans have fancy coffee that's made from beans extracted from actual cat s***, and the cat s*** coffee farms are a lot weirder and more gross than an aphid farm.
But bee honey is just dried out nectar, it isn't even spit or vomit because there's no bile or added secretions. It's just dehydrated flower juice.
As for the angler fish and praying mantis, that doesn't seem strange at all with so many ways that evolution and reproduction have evolved.
Milk isn't some instinctual thing, humans know where milk comes from, know the cow has to be pregnant, and know which baby animals milk is for, and chose to build an industry around artificially impregnating cows year round, sucking the moo juice from their swollen breasts, taking away their babies after they're born and processing them for food, then artificially impregnating the agitated mother and sucking more juice out of her for a few years until she's worthless as a moojuice producer and is moodered for our consumption. Then there's the hormones that we used for decades and the terrible conditions the animals live in.
Factory farming, artificial insemination and separating families are choices that we are making to enjoy the elite privilege of drinking the lactation of other species.
That's still way weirder to me.
Milk isnβt some instinctual thing, humans know where milk comes from, know the cow has to be pregnant, and know which baby animals milk is for, and chose to build an industry around ...
Neither is bread, beer, pizza or any other processed food. Think about it, how weird it is, that humans decided to take seeds, that they cannot digest well and isntead of letting the seeds just seed, they grind them with stones and then they add water and they let it spoil and then they take the spoiled bunch and put it over a fire. And of course it couldnt stop there no! they all started to make it in different ways and when they imagined some standarized symbols they added these symbols together to describe how to do it. And they learned how to breed the seeds so they get more of the white fluffy stuff and they started playing with the dirt to dirigate water to where the seeds grow. And then they noticed the seeds to grow better when they put animal shit on them, so they did that too. And then they used the little symbols they invented, to measure how much seeds each human is growing and how much seeds they need to give to the alpha-humans and some of these alpha humans got so rich with seeds, they built themselves giant gravestones, that are still among the largest buildings to this day.
You can describe anything that humans did since they stopped slapping bunnies with stone and collecting roots as being super weird. I share your criticism of industrialized farming, but not because it is less or more weird, but because it is detrimental to our survival and well being.
Breaking things down to their fundamentals isn't weird, the thing itself is weird.
No, the development of crops is not weird. Bread is likewise not weird. Capitalism, or the hoarding of resources, is more detrimental to humans than crops or bread, but not very weird.
Developing an industry around humans harvesting the non-essential lactation of other species meant for animal babies is much weirder than bread.
Milk - forcefully inseminate animals, confine the animals in filth, pump them full of chemicals and hormones, secure the cow lactation for the pleasure of the percentage of the human population that can digest cow milk instead of the animal babies it's intended for, boil the milk because it's dangerous for humans, kill the baby once it's born, ignore the bleating and stress of the cow, pump them full of chemicals and hormones, artificially inseminate the cow, repeat
Milk is definitely weirder.
You just arbitrarily define your level of detail.
Drinking milk also just started as:
try milk from lactating cow - realize you are able to digest it - get more milk from that cow.
All the rest that lead to most Europeans being lactose tolerant, which is an insane genetical success story and the subsequent refining of that process came later.
But maybe to help you with the seeds: A common way of breeding new seeds, that isnt specific GMO, is to radiate the seeds for random mutation. How is the following process not weird? "apply death ray to seed, get defeberated seed, see if it has any useful properties, crossbreed degenerated seed with less degenerated one until you get your right mix of degeneracy"
Or should we go about processing old dinosaur meat into transparent wrappings to buy our cow lactate in? Name it and i can tell you how it is weird. The process is just creative and the result is arbitrary.
You're literally doing what you're accusing others of in order to make inorganic sterile processes sound strange.
I'm not arbitrarily defining my level of detail, you can break down bread as much as you want and use as many dramatic or inaccurate terms as you like, but bread is never going to be as weird as artificially inseminating chemical hormone pumped eugenics cows so that we can steal their baby juice. I don't need to make euphemisms or make things sound more dramatic - that's actually what's happening.
You're pretending that radiation is weird when it's literally everywhere constantly, and using the word crossbreeds to falsely equivocate eugenics and hormonal manipulation in higher life forms with retaining the seeds of successful fruiting plants.
I understand you're upset that you can't make milk less weird, but pushing for grains to be weird is not a winning route for you.
Your weirdness with milk stems from it being from a mammal and you seeing more similarity with a mammal. But the underlying processes are equally estranged from the perceived natural way. and for the natural way again the definition remains difficult, because humans 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10.000 and 50.000 years ago all had very different lifes in which very different things happened.
What you described with artifical hormones is something of the past 50 years. But what about the other 6.000 years of humans drinking milk already? What you describe isnt specific to milk.It is specific to modern industrialized countries.
The original weirdness comes from thousands of years that humans saw these other animals with their animal boobs dripping milk into the mouths of their babies, and decided that we need some of that non-essential nourishment at any cost.
That's why it's weird. And it only gets weirder when we have to build up industrialized processes to support an obviously unsustainable and harmful process because...the percentage of the population who can stomach the non-essential infant cow juice want it so badly?
That weirdness has been happening as long as we've been stealing milk from cow babies.
and decided that we need some of that non-essential nourishment at any cost.
But it was essential. Drinking cow milk was such an evolutionary edge that genetic analysis indicated every lactose tolerant person to have the same ancestor where it first occured some 6.000 years ago.
Nobody born intended to be eaten by others. Why is that even a question?
Because you alleged that meat is not something I was intended to eat, which doesn't really track with the uncountable natural examples of predator and prey for all of knowable history.
Things happening have nothing to do with intentions. Your implication of milk is not intended to be consumed by humans doesn't track with the history either. We consume milk a fuck ton in various forms over hundreds of years.
Of course it tracks - You think that breast milk produced by cows and goats for baby cows and goats specifically is intended for human consumption? No, of course not. That animal breast milk is intended for the young of that species.
Humans may continue to suckle at the teats of other animals, and it may continue to be common, and it will be weird.
That just brings back the question of how's cow meat is intended to be eaten by you. That muscle is intended to let the cow walk and eat and reproduce. It is specifically evolved for those purposes.
I don't think I have the time or inclination to explain the entire history of predator and prey to you, but if you type in those two p-words, you're going to learn a whole lot about a very long history of carnivores and omnivores eating meat.
Carnivores are meat eaters and omnivores eat many things, btw.
Humans as a predator, are biologically and historically intended to eat prey, the cow. Or pig, or whatever animal.
Look it up, you can choose nearly any animal you are familiar with, and they will fit into the food chain somewhere as an iteration of predator or prey.
You have a lot to learn, that'll be fun for you!
You are just keep switching the subject of intention for your convenience. Milk is not intended to be... humans are intended to... If you only consider the intention of the consumer, of course it is always intended to consume whatever is nutritious. The logic flaw is in the case of milk you suddenly switch to consider the intention of the producer which is the cows. Are you doing this intentionally (pun intended) or is it a blind spot for you because you hate milk?
If you keep asking questions about different topics, you're going to receive answers about different topics.
That doesn't mean I'm being inconsistent, it means that I'm consistently answering your inconsistent questions.
Your newest topic is based on the false premise that I am considering the intention of cows, which I am not.
You're making that up and then following up your false claim by asking me why I believe cows have intention because it's an indefensible point.
You got confused four or five comments ago and you're trying to use disingenuous, obscure questioning and false assertions in an attempt to ignore and draw attention away from the clear answers you've received that logically show you why meat is biologically and historically intended to be eaten by carnivores and omnivores.
It's not working, but it is funny that you keep trying, so go wild.
Hmm, I see. How about you go ahead and clarify for me whose intention you're talking about in either cases?
Thesis: milk
Antithesis: alcohol
Synthesis: white russians.
Fuck yeah! Glad someone else can see the true path.
That's just like... your opinion man....
Yeah well, I still jerk off manually.
I've usually skipped the white part and have gone black for my Russians
Synergy: White russian with a scoop of meth.
No way Iβm washing down a slice of chocolate cake with a shot of vodka.
Sooo, washing down a pint of vodka with a slice of cake then?
That actually sounds more delicious to me...
Oh you're going to like rum cake!
(Well not like, real rum cake. I mean like dipping your cake in a glass of rum, Oreo style)
Holy fuck that sounds scrumptious
Maybe some vanilla vodka or Malibu or something would be ideal
Rumchata π€€.
start breakin bricks wet nips
Lactose intolerant ppl need to be more tolerant π
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Most restaurants have milk. Just ask for it and stop hanging out with drunks.
Gotta be honest here, I'd rather hang out with drunks than a bunch of milk chugging tea totalers.
What if it's Moloko Plus
Then, I rekon I'd say. "Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?"
I'm lactose intolerant so I don't go around in public drinking glasses of milk.
I'm also a recovering alcoholic so I also don't go around public drinking alcohol.
Then what do you do with your life?!
Not drinking anymore has allowed me to travel the world to five continents, 40 countries, multiple cruises and meet people from all over the world. It's amazing how much money and time you save when you stop drinking, smoking and drugging. It also allowed me to run a small business fixing building repairing houses for over 30 years and save enough money and time and energy to own my own house, multiple vehicles and two other recreational properties.
I still drink milk sometimes though ... just not in public because it makes me fart.
Aye good for you friend! Rereading my comment I realize it probably came off as criticizing your sobriety, so I just wanna clarify I didn't mean that at all! It was just supposed to be a weird joke, like, 'what on earth do you do if not walk around in public all day drinking milk/alcohol?'
But that's fuckin baller, I'm glad you're enjoying your life, it sounds awesome! (And I feel you, I'm lactose intolerant too, so most dairy consumption is done in private XD)
I probably did come off defensive and my apologies as well for any bad feelings .... man I love this community ... thanks for clarifying ... I don't who did right or wrong (or even if anyone did or not) ... all I know is that you made me feel good and I think that's all that matters ... I'll raise a glass of milk to you (I don't think you'll want to sit next to me tho)
Thats dope, man, congrats. On the sobriety, not the farting. Im approaching 1yr sober and Ive noticed massive improvements in the quality of my life and my bank balance.
I'm amazed by family members, friends, and coworkers that smoke like chimneys. I ask them how much their pack a day habit costs and I'm floored. Even the lower tax native smokes are not cheap.
Then throw in the booze and drugs it's no wonder why they can't afford a lot of basic things. I have a addictive personality at times but thankfully I'm too cheap for those things and would rather travel, own the toys, vehicles etc.
I do have an addiction to sweets and ice cream which gives me the same gas issues.
It's an addiction so the cost is, if not irrelevant, but a mere nuisance. Not a deal breaker in any case.
They stay inside drinking milk and painting the walls brown while being a closet drunk who hides their liquor in the toilet tank, obviously.
Haha apparently not, if you read their other comment it sounds like they're doin fine
Just add some coffee to your milk.
Or amphetamines
I prefer shrooms
Its not that I judge public milk drinkers. I just don't trust public milk.
I have some private milk I have made if you trust that
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Drinking milk in public - weird.
Drinking a milk and frozen cream smoothie in public - perfectly normal.
I recently stopped drinking, just kind of organically. I cut down to help cut some calories and ended up stopping altogether.
The pressure is weird at any sort of event. I declined some champagne that was being passed around and the response was "why not? It's free!"
I can't drink alcohol for medical reasons. It interacts badly with one of my prescriptions. It's really weird how often I have to tell people about it. Nobody really pressures me after I say "medical reasons", of course... but I'm very familiar with that confusion people get.
For me it's basically the same reason I don't drink soda. And yet no one questions me when I have an iced tea instead of a soda, but not drinking alcohol requires an explanation.
You know what I hate? In the rare times I order tea at a restaurant (they never boil the water, so it's almost always weak), I ask for milk instead of cream and the waiter looks at me like I asked for some sugar to put on my steak.
Tea with milk is the best thing ever. Everybody always looks at me weird when I put milk in my tea. They're just missing out, to be honest.
The worst part is that one of my friends doesn't mind putting milk in Pepsi but has the audacity to look at me funny when I put milk in tea.
Milk in Pepsi? What shortcircuited in their brain to make that taste good to them?
Too much Laverne and Shirley.
I legitimately can't comprehend what this would taste like
Cream? With tea? Do we need a war of 1812 part 2?
try it
I've made this mistake when visiting US customers. Tea is not as common in Canada as coffee but it's still much more common than Coke with your breakfast. Most place carry regular and herbal teas, even coffee shops.
I sometimes forget when going for a business lunch and order tea in some US restaurants. One time they brought out the old school full size tea pot for 6. Mr Belvedere would have been proud. The milk was a bit of a juggle for them too versus cream in those little plastic cups.
Now I just stick with coffee or ice tea when south.
I really do not like coffee, but I will tolerate iced tea (can't say I love it either). I don't like soft drinks, so it's pretty much iced tea or water for me if I go out.
I love both but I grew up guzzling coffee during the day, then our grandparents would serve us orange pekoe tea with dinner to calm us down. This was after spiking our coffee with sugar cubes and condensed milk which is like liquid sugar. I'm amazed we ever slept. At least the caffeine kept us up through the sugar crashes.
I use to drink a lot of pop/soda too. Root Beer was my choice. These days it's usually water and mostly ice tea if it's not water. In my parts tea is sweetened so it's my adult pop but I try to avoid it. I've consumed enough sugar for several lifetimes already.
It depends on the kind of milk
In a latte it's very acceptable
sonetimes I stop and get a single serving bottle of milk at the store to drink on my walk home from work and always feel weird if people see me drinking it... guess now I know I'm not the only one.
For awhile chocolate milk was a big thing post workout at the gym. I never wanted to chug milk most of the time let alone chocolate milk after a workout. Water is just fine thanks
Milk doesn't have a 50% markup and can make people dance, fight, or fuck
You should watch videos online
Evergreen wisdom
If you get it on tap then one of those 3 will happen
This post reminded me how much I cut back on alcohol. This year, I have been drinking 3 times, on my b-day, visiting a friend and once when a friend was over. I'm a mental wreck (clinical depression) so I cannot say I'm feeling better. Maybe I would feel worse if I drank more tho.
Tried drinking milk?
Lactose intolerance leaves me with only buttermilk or plant-based products. Although I still eat cheeses when I feel okay to spend half an hour on the toilet.
"MILK WAS A BAD CHOICE!"
alcohol withers your body so much, maybe you don't feel it now, but maybe one day you will wake up looking 20y older than you supposed to be. maybe it sounds harsh, but thas what i fear the most. Thats why i rarely go out - all my friends i know keep drinking, and without participating in it there's really not much to do. I take drinks now or then, but getting shit faced and spending whole Saturday hangover seems kind waste of free time. Fuck milk tho.
I bet you're fun at parties...
Is expressing a reasonable concern that they have difficulty socialising without doing activities they don't enjoy which have health consequences they want to avoid actually something that deserves that comment?
Filthy milk drinker
I'm sorry why are people accepting the premise that it's weird to drink milk in public? Seems made up.
If someone gives you shit for drinking Milk you break their bones. They'd be wishing they drank all that milk for Good, Strong bones 𦴠π₯
Shout out to all my lactose ninjas that never broke a bone lol.
βSir, that is nastyβ
What about bull milk?
In Melbourne, 99% of drinks seen in public are barista coffee.
Fun fact: Adelaide is the only city in the world where iced coffee outsells Coca Cola.
Solution: put milk in a coffee cup
Solution to standing out, not to the underlying problem of milk being weird
But it's the basis for some really good stuff;
Cheese is next level weird when you think about it, especially aged ones, but I must say I find a great variety of them really delicious.
Some of them are very much essential in my favorite foods. Butter as well as cream is nice too.
Ice cream!
Eating dairy-based food in public isn't weird. So that's another solution; Eat an ice cream with whipped cream, a pizza with four different cheeses, or just brioche bread and butter!
However, if you want to drink the milk, you better shake it first with some vanilla, strawberry or chocolate ice cream. Milkshakes are totally accepted.
good
Norway.
That's only because a glass of milk is kind of gross.
u wot
Only the cow kind.
#SoyMilkSupremacy
Oat milk. Oat
g < -- you dropped this. Goat milk
Oat milk is the goat milk.
As a vegan, I think this is the way it should be.
Imagine seeing a grown ass man sucking on a titty in public. Weird as fuck, yet, somehow conceivably less fucked up if it was a cow.
Society is a strange mistress.
But why is it less weird to suck on rotten plant ovaries? That's what alcohol is. Food is fucking weird.
He ain't bringing a live cow in the park to drink it's bottled
Who said anything about a park?
I assumed they brought the cow to the bar.
Sure. Glugging down the lactation of other species intended for their babies is weird. It's weird and should be more stigmatized.
Peak Lemmy for me is reading shit like this and being unsure if it is a joke or not
Hahaha, me too.
I do think it is super weird to drink the breast milk of other animals. At the same time, I wouldn't say that it's a topic I take very seriously.
Oats, goats, stoats, all of 'em
Are you saying it'd be less weird to glug down human milk?
Well, yes, since we already do that. And human milk is at least from our species.
I personally think that would be very weird, but less weird than drinking the breast milk of other species.
I'll refer you to another response from this wonderfully lively thread:
""What do you like to drink?"
"Milk."
"What's that?"
"This breast juice from other animals. It's super healthy for the percentage of our population that can digest it."
"Oh...Why from other animals?"
"Well, we're not going to drink human breast milk, that would be gross. I mean, we give it to babies. Cow and goat lactation, though, that's for grown-ups.""
Fair enough. Like the other commenter said in response, it's good to remember that weird doesn't mean bad, but you're not wrong, it is pretty weird lol. The world is a goofy place :)
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I was confused so I googled my name, and apparently kΓ€se means nonsense in German, so that's cool! Is that why you said that?
KΓ€se in German means cheese. A dairy product. Therefore my comment. But you are not wrong, it is colloquially used to describe somebody talking rubbish in the following sentences: Du redest KΓ€se. Das ist doch KΓ€se.
Oh cool!! Thanks for the explanation
Agreed, there are tons of weird and goofy things everywhere. They don't bother me, but I notice and appreciate them.
Drinking milk from other species is just one of the most common weird ones and one that I don't think we examine fundamentally often enough haha. Plus I always think it's funny.
I always think of that. Tom Green skit where he drank milk straight from the udder of a cow and the ostensible joke is like look how crazy this guy is that he's willing to drink milk straight from the cow!
But that's basically what everybody is doing, in my head anyway whenever I see someone drinking milk. It's fun up there, in my head.
You could make a similar argument as to why we eat animal meat instead of human meat and it would be just as stupid.
Not dissing your argument at all, but my first thought was of babies eating little pieces of human flesh and it made me giggle. Well now that I wrote I down it just sounds freaky, but in my head it sounded silly Β―β \β _β (β γβ )β _β /β Β―
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Go on?
You're trying to make it seem like drinking milk is weird because it comes from an animal other than humans. But nearly all the food anyone eats comes from something that's not a human.
You're also ignoring one of the big reasons we don't drink human milk for longer - most human mothers stop producing milk after a certain length of time, whereas cows and goats and the like produce it more regularly, for longer periods of time.
Cows also stop producing milk naturally.
You only think they don't because we force-impregnate the eugenics cows to be pregnant and lactating all the time. When they have their babies, the baby is taken away immediately and the cow is force-impregnated again 6 weeks later. After a few years, the cow is killed and becomes deli meat.
That is a strange horror show you are cheerleading for as "normal".
Also, stop pretending I'm saying things I'm not. It didn't work for the others and it won't work for you.
If we think about this way, yes it is indeed pretty weird but it has really great nutrients which are crucial for children to grow in a healthy way (in moderation just like with any other food, fruit, vegetable).
I think milk has vitamins and nutrients as well, vitamins and nutrients that can be easily supplemented by other dietary sources.
It's much more the fact that it's just day to day normal to drink breast milk from other animals.
"What do you like to drink?"
"Milk."
"What's that?"
"This breast juice from other animals. It's super healthy for the percentage of our population that can digest it."
"Oh...Why from other animals?"
"Well, we're not going to drink human breast milk, that would be gross. I mean, we give it to babies. Cow and goat lactation, though, that's for grown-ups."
I don't think "it's weird therefore bad" is a good argument. If you're gonna argue for veganism (which I don't have a problem work doing!) I think there are way, way better reasons.
I agree, can you point me to whichever commenter told you it was bad?
I'm not big into veganism myself, but feel free to spread your vegan wings here if you like.
Seems as appropriate a place as any.
"it's weird and should be more stigmatized" that seems to be making a moral claim right? I guess you never explicitly said that it's because it's weird that it should be stigmatized, but it certainly seemed to be structured like that.
And ah maybe I misunderstood, what you were saying just sounds like how a lot of ppl talk about it on the vegan forums I used to regular, lmao.
If the original comment was truly a sarcasm then I give a huge applause for Varyk. It's certainly 200 IQ level.
I'm not sure what triggers a moral defense there, except for the traditional context of the word "stigma", maybe? Yeah, might have taken it one assumption too far.
I guess you can make a moral argument against drinking milk because of factory farming infrastructure, but even with factory farming I think anyone would find it easier to argue against the mass slaughter in horrific conditions before the milk charge would make waves.
Even though drinking xeno-boob-juice is super weird.
So you used to be a vegan? Or you just crashed their forums?
Yeah I was talking about milks too. Probably it's relatively easy to supplement milk with other sources but are those choice economically viable? Protein powders are a bit expensive + as an average joe, payin 3x+ more for plant based milk products are bit too much for me currently, but a 2x could convince me to opt for a plant based one. I'm not really knowledgable in this area, there must be some other options too for replacing milk in a cost effective way.
Supplements are cheaper than milk. If the main concern is about d3, you can buy hundreds of high dose d3 supplements for like 10 bucks.
I'm checking.
Costco, no sale, 500 iu d3, 600 gels.
CVS, 5$, 400iu d3 for 100 gels.
Supplements are pretty available.
Protein? Meat. Quinoa. Protein is easier and cheaper, but d3 is straightforward and available also.
Yeah these are good options, though I'm an europoor I believe you, but personally I'm more likely interested in a milk alternative.
Yeast is the way to look in terms of a realistic cost effective nutritious alternative to milk that tastes and feels similar. I think anyway. Synthesized yeast proteins, acids and fats is a pretty interesting field.
We can just program yeast to incorporate a certain amount of D3, or whatever other detail of nutrition we care for, within the milk or other substance they produce.
Damn yeast as a viable alternative? Now that was an unexpected one, thank you for the info!
Oh, it's super cool. Scientists were able to persuade yeasts to produce all sorts of things in small colonies decades ago, but there are actual companies now that the technology has matured that are trying to bring yeast farms into commercial scale. And yeasts are so variable in their strains and productions that you could basically make a yeast produce any combination of protein, fats and acids that you'd like. They're hoping to synthesize biodegradable plastics, milks, it sounds like nearly anything organic should be able to be synthesized via yeast.
Yeah, check it out, yeast farming is super cool.
I love milk in my tea and cream in my coffee not to mention ice cream but it's still meant for helping calfs grow quickly into cows at the same time. We are talking huge gains quickly here.
Some argue it's why north American kids grow up so much faster and bigger than our Asian counterparts where milk and cheese is not as huge part of their diets. The kids hit puberty sooner too as a result. That's changing in other parts of the world as cheese and milk make their ways into the diets even in places that never understood why Americans eat so much cheese on everything.
Low fat products created enormous sources of removed fat that could be turned into all kinds of dairy products including cheeses. It's also heavily subsidized by government too. Dairy is so cheap in the US as a result compared to even Canada.
I don't guzzle milk anymore like I did as a teen due to the amount of phlegm the body can create with its consumption. I've never forgotten a health video years ago that equated milk to drinking a glass of puss due to the things done to cows to make commercial milk.
I guess in my mind cheese is adjacent but not milk, but that's just fooling myself as I eat my cheese.
It's a huge industry in the west and I don't think we will ever not see how great milk is for us. A lot is dedicated to keep those consumption numbers up and I do like my dairy products.
Wow! I think I had actually blocked out that pus memory but as soon as you said it my brain was like. Oh yeah you hated that, so I might have seen that.
We need vitamin D3, and there aren't that many sources you can get it from.
Most of the useful things in milk are there because we artificially added them in. There is no real reason for this, it's just what we have been doing for a long time
You can get all the vitamin D you need from just 10-30 minutes midday a few times a week.
Also, cow's milk doesn't naturally contain vitamin D. Vitamin D is added to cow's milk and is even required by law in some countries (Canada and Sweden). Might as well just drink any milk alternative fortified with vitamin D.
Sure, I'm not arguing against that. Just pointing out there aren't that many sources. And there are a lot of reasons people can't go outside whenever they want to, biggest one for me is it gets really cold during the winter. No way I'm going outside to hang out when it's 10 degrees outside.
If only humans could make their own vitamin D. Oh, wait
Sure you can, but there's also winter months where you can't really go outside.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Source
I thought less time was required.
So I'm supposed to be outside for two hours in -20 degree weather to get my Vitamin D just so I can survive?
There aren't? Fish right? Isn't that what fish and fish oil is all about? I think there are plenty of dietary sources of D3 beyond breast milk, if that's the issue.
Fish and eggs yes. But if you eat fish all the time, you'll find you have a different issue with mercury poisoning. Sources of vitamin D are low, so some foods and drinks get fortified with vitamin d. It isnt naturally found in anything but fish, beef liver, and egg yolk.
Eat fish oil instead of fish if you're worried about mercury.
As for d3 only being found in only a few foods? That can't be correct.
Nope, it isn't.
But you go on drinking milk if you like, people do lots of weird things.
Easily googled dude. It is true. Yes, we can also produce it from our skin, but lots of reasons people cant always go outside.
It was easily Googled, and you are wrong.
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Mushrooms, oranges, almonds, and we aren't even addressing the very cheap d3 supplements.
All other mammals not drinking milk past infancy: Am I a joke to you?
Literally all you need to do is touch grass a few times a week.
that's not a good argument. Other animals doesn't cook food or wear clothes.
we do, since both things are older than our species, so we evolved this way. We'd die without cooking and clothes.
domestic animals and drinking milk are a newer thing, but our species do this weird things all the time.
that being said, vitamin D can be foud elsewhere lol
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for milk past infancy. It's all culture and marketing.
Just because we do those things you mentioned doesn't mean they're necessary. In fact, I assure you, neither clothes nor cooking are strictly necessary for an individual's survival. They're convenient and comfortable, but not physiologically necessary. Obviously we'd freeze in cold climates, but there are plenty of places on earth we could survive well enough without.
We do need vitamin D to survive, but you can literally just get it directly from sunlight. The more time you spend inside, and the more thoroughly you clothe yourself, the more likely you are to need to supplement it. Simple as. You only need 30m outside 3x a week (2hrs in winter regions).
Another funny thing about milk, is that all the natural vitamin A and D is removed in processing. They literally have to re-fortify it again, so the only reason it's billed as this "healthy" thing is because it's basically a lab-made liquid vitamin.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for chocolate. It's all culture and marketing.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for coffee. It's all culture and marketing.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for beer. It's all culture and marketing.
You can apply that to virtually anything we consume that isn't plants or meat.
We have absolutely zero evolutionary need for Lemmy. Itβs all tankies and linux users.
Hey now! I'll have you know that only about a third of my computers run Linux right now
Yes, exactly, now you're getting it! Glad we agree. The entire argument being made here is a purely normative one, not of necessity.
More weird than eating other things not intended for you to eat like animal meats?
Weirder? Sure.
What gives you the idea that eating animal meat is unintentional?
I can think of plenty of examples of one animal eating the meat of another, but only one example of a majority of a species drinking the breast milk of another species.
So yeah, drinking milk seems weirder to me than eating meat.
I dont know man. Ants are farming aphids for their sugary digestive secrets aka their shit. Bears eat Honey, which to all logic remains half digested bee-spit. Praying Mantis cut off the head off their mate after mating and eat it. Anglerfish males are not the mighty toothed beasts, but weird little parasites that nist themselves in the females and eat them from the inside until the female just lays its eggs before death.
So humans drinking other animals milk is maybe unique, but certainly not more weird than other ways of procurung nutrition, that nature invented.
I don't think anyone claimed drinking the breast milk of other species is the weirdest thing on the planet, but I'm not sure your examples quite hit that level, although ants and aphids is a point.
I guess the counterpoint is that aphid secretions are nontoxic and largely sugar, while humans have fancy coffee that's made from beans extracted from actual cat s***, and the cat s*** coffee farms are a lot weirder and more gross than an aphid farm.
But bee honey is just dried out nectar, it isn't even spit or vomit because there's no bile or added secretions. It's just dehydrated flower juice.
As for the angler fish and praying mantis, that doesn't seem strange at all with so many ways that evolution and reproduction have evolved.
Milk isn't some instinctual thing, humans know where milk comes from, know the cow has to be pregnant, and know which baby animals milk is for, and chose to build an industry around artificially impregnating cows year round, sucking the moo juice from their swollen breasts, taking away their babies after they're born and processing them for food, then artificially impregnating the agitated mother and sucking more juice out of her for a few years until she's worthless as a moojuice producer and is moodered for our consumption. Then there's the hormones that we used for decades and the terrible conditions the animals live in.
Factory farming, artificial insemination and separating families are choices that we are making to enjoy the elite privilege of drinking the lactation of other species.
That's still way weirder to me.
Neither is bread, beer, pizza or any other processed food. Think about it, how weird it is, that humans decided to take seeds, that they cannot digest well and isntead of letting the seeds just seed, they grind them with stones and then they add water and they let it spoil and then they take the spoiled bunch and put it over a fire. And of course it couldnt stop there no! they all started to make it in different ways and when they imagined some standarized symbols they added these symbols together to describe how to do it. And they learned how to breed the seeds so they get more of the white fluffy stuff and they started playing with the dirt to dirigate water to where the seeds grow. And then they noticed the seeds to grow better when they put animal shit on them, so they did that too. And then they used the little symbols they invented, to measure how much seeds each human is growing and how much seeds they need to give to the alpha-humans and some of these alpha humans got so rich with seeds, they built themselves giant gravestones, that are still among the largest buildings to this day.
You can describe anything that humans did since they stopped slapping bunnies with stone and collecting roots as being super weird. I share your criticism of industrialized farming, but not because it is less or more weird, but because it is detrimental to our survival and well being.
Breaking things down to their fundamentals isn't weird, the thing itself is weird.
No, the development of crops is not weird. Bread is likewise not weird. Capitalism, or the hoarding of resources, is more detrimental to humans than crops or bread, but not very weird.
Developing an industry around humans harvesting the non-essential lactation of other species meant for animal babies is much weirder than bread.
Bread - grind seeds, add flour, add water, add heat
Hunting rabbits - kill rabbit, process meat, add heat
Potatoes - grow potatoes, harvest potatoes, add heat
Milk - forcefully inseminate animals, confine the animals in filth, pump them full of chemicals and hormones, secure the cow lactation for the pleasure of the percentage of the human population that can digest cow milk instead of the animal babies it's intended for, boil the milk because it's dangerous for humans, kill the baby once it's born, ignore the bleating and stress of the cow, pump them full of chemicals and hormones, artificially inseminate the cow, repeat
Milk is definitely weirder.
You just arbitrarily define your level of detail.
Drinking milk also just started as:
try milk from lactating cow - realize you are able to digest it - get more milk from that cow.
All the rest that lead to most Europeans being lactose tolerant, which is an insane genetical success story and the subsequent refining of that process came later.
But maybe to help you with the seeds: A common way of breeding new seeds, that isnt specific GMO, is to radiate the seeds for random mutation. How is the following process not weird? "apply death ray to seed, get defeberated seed, see if it has any useful properties, crossbreed degenerated seed with less degenerated one until you get your right mix of degeneracy"
Or should we go about processing old dinosaur meat into transparent wrappings to buy our cow lactate in? Name it and i can tell you how it is weird. The process is just creative and the result is arbitrary.
You're literally doing what you're accusing others of in order to make inorganic sterile processes sound strange.
I'm not arbitrarily defining my level of detail, you can break down bread as much as you want and use as many dramatic or inaccurate terms as you like, but bread is never going to be as weird as artificially inseminating chemical hormone pumped eugenics cows so that we can steal their baby juice. I don't need to make euphemisms or make things sound more dramatic - that's actually what's happening.
You're pretending that radiation is weird when it's literally everywhere constantly, and using the word crossbreeds to falsely equivocate eugenics and hormonal manipulation in higher life forms with retaining the seeds of successful fruiting plants.
I understand you're upset that you can't make milk less weird, but pushing for grains to be weird is not a winning route for you.
Your weirdness with milk stems from it being from a mammal and you seeing more similarity with a mammal. But the underlying processes are equally estranged from the perceived natural way. and for the natural way again the definition remains difficult, because humans 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10.000 and 50.000 years ago all had very different lifes in which very different things happened.
What you described with artifical hormones is something of the past 50 years. But what about the other 6.000 years of humans drinking milk already? What you describe isnt specific to milk.It is specific to modern industrialized countries.
The original weirdness comes from thousands of years that humans saw these other animals with their animal boobs dripping milk into the mouths of their babies, and decided that we need some of that non-essential nourishment at any cost.
That's why it's weird. And it only gets weirder when we have to build up industrialized processes to support an obviously unsustainable and harmful process because...the percentage of the population who can stomach the non-essential infant cow juice want it so badly?
That weirdness has been happening as long as we've been stealing milk from cow babies.
But it was essential. Drinking cow milk was such an evolutionary edge that genetic analysis indicated every lactose tolerant person to have the same ancestor where it first occured some 6.000 years ago.
Nobody born intended to be eaten by others. Why is that even a question?
Because you alleged that meat is not something I was intended to eat, which doesn't really track with the uncountable natural examples of predator and prey for all of knowable history.
Things happening have nothing to do with intentions. Your implication of milk is not intended to be consumed by humans doesn't track with the history either. We consume milk a fuck ton in various forms over hundreds of years.
Of course it tracks - You think that breast milk produced by cows and goats for baby cows and goats specifically is intended for human consumption? No, of course not. That animal breast milk is intended for the young of that species.
Humans may continue to suckle at the teats of other animals, and it may continue to be common, and it will be weird.
That just brings back the question of how's cow meat is intended to be eaten by you. That muscle is intended to let the cow walk and eat and reproduce. It is specifically evolved for those purposes.
I don't think I have the time or inclination to explain the entire history of predator and prey to you, but if you type in those two p-words, you're going to learn a whole lot about a very long history of carnivores and omnivores eating meat.
Carnivores are meat eaters and omnivores eat many things, btw.
Humans as a predator, are biologically and historically intended to eat prey, the cow. Or pig, or whatever animal.
Look it up, you can choose nearly any animal you are familiar with, and they will fit into the food chain somewhere as an iteration of predator or prey.
You have a lot to learn, that'll be fun for you!
You are just keep switching the subject of intention for your convenience. Milk is not intended to be... humans are intended to... If you only consider the intention of the consumer, of course it is always intended to consume whatever is nutritious. The logic flaw is in the case of milk you suddenly switch to consider the intention of the producer which is the cows. Are you doing this intentionally (pun intended) or is it a blind spot for you because you hate milk?
If you keep asking questions about different topics, you're going to receive answers about different topics.
That doesn't mean I'm being inconsistent, it means that I'm consistently answering your inconsistent questions.
Your newest topic is based on the false premise that I am considering the intention of cows, which I am not.
You're making that up and then following up your false claim by asking me why I believe cows have intention because it's an indefensible point.
You got confused four or five comments ago and you're trying to use disingenuous, obscure questioning and false assertions in an attempt to ignore and draw attention away from the clear answers you've received that logically show you why meat is biologically and historically intended to be eaten by carnivores and omnivores.
It's not working, but it is funny that you keep trying, so go wild.
Hmm, I see. How about you go ahead and clarify for me whose intention you're talking about in either cases?