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Oddly, we're one of the few mammals that isn't weened completely.

 

There's another? :confused:

 

As I mention every time the topic comes up, roughly 75% of Humans are "lactose intolerant". That is the normal state for an adult mammal. Being able to fully digest lactose as an adult is the genetic mutation from a bio-chemical point of view, and only cultures with a Western European ancestry have a majority of people who drink milk as an adult. Most humans in the world stop after infancy.

 

People think drinking human breast milk as an adult would be gross, but at least it's food actually intended for humans. Why isn't drinking breast milk intended for infant cows doubly gross? :confused:

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A long time ago (15 years) in a galaxy (Romania) far, far away, I was in a small town (village) with a bunch of other language students. The natives threw us a party with great food and fresh plum brandy (?uic?) they had by the dozens of kegs in September (when plums are ripe for the picking).

 

In the Balkans, you have no right to refuse anything offered, least of all the national hooch.

 

We all got sorely hammered.

 

The difficulty was that I had had the squirts off-and-on for a month and a half. Getting hammered amplifies this.

 

I'll spare you the details of finding my way out of a strange room across a courtyard without tripping over a pipe in a big puddle past a sheep pen (wakey wakey) to fumble through a creaky iron door to land in a field and locate the outhouse (which thankfully had a switch and a light). This, every hour on the hour for some pretty explosive, energy-draining squirts.

 

Around 8:30 in the morning the 65 or so year old matron of the abode woke us up wondering why my fellow student and I were so late and rude in not coming to breakfast.

 

I doused my head in water at the pipe I kept tripping over the night before and plunked myself down at the breakfast table. Super thirsty and pounding headache. What's to drink?

 

?uic?!

 

Oy.

 

I asked in my then-broken Romanian if there was anything at all to drink.

 

Of course!

 

Plonk. A glass of milk. Straight from the cow.

 

I honestly tried to do it. I couldn't.

 

I asked for more ?uic?.

 

Come noontime and time to clamber on the bus back to the big city, the only cafe in town with Coke in the bottle never looked so good as that moment...

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Did I read something that raw milk, raw milk products (cheeses etc) are illegal here in Australia..

 

Local gourmet cheese places are not allowed to import and sell a lot of French cheeses as they use un-pasturerised milk

 

{censored}in stupid nanny state..:mad:

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