Is milk racist .

[soulman101]

The tax payer is picking up the bill for this research.
Nearly chocked on my coco.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lonialism.html

[Omegstrat6]

It does indeed seem that the consumption of milk in volume is primarily one particular to North European countries and not something the rest of the world shares and it is no surprise that colonialism would export this aspect of culture just as it did other things. Does that make it racist? Of course not.

This is a report in the Daily Mail though so they probably egged up the racism bit tbh as click-bait. Regardless, to fund such research when the data is already pretty much known seems rather a clear waste of money. If the research establishes that producing milk in Kenya ,for example, and encouraging the native population there to consume it in the same quantities that we do has an adverse effect on their health then perhaps there is some merit in it. But I thought this issue around lactose intolerance was already known.

[Albionic68]

It does indeed seem that the consumption of milk in volume is primarily one particular to North European countries and not something the rest of the world shares and it is no surprise that colonialism would export this aspect of culture just as it did other things. Does that make it racist? Of course not.

This is a report in the Daily Mail though so they probably egged up the racism bit tbh as click-bait. Regardless, to fund such research when the data is already pretty much known seems rather a clear waste of money. If the research establishes that producing milk in Kenya ,for example, and encouraging the native population there to consume it in the same quantities that we do has an adverse effect on their health then perhaps there is some merit in it. But I thought this issue around lactose intolerance was already known.

I haven't read the Daily Mail article in full so please excuse any ignorance of it on my part.

What I do know is that certain African tribes have been drinking milk for at least as long as they've been drinking cow/oxen blood.

And while I haven't read beyond the titles of either of these linked articles either they suggest this research is a waste of time.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...e%20is%20clear.

https://www.mpg.de/16345629/0127-wis...rica-9347732-x

[Omegstrat6]

I haven't read the Daily Mail article in full so please excuse any ignorance of it on my part.

What I do know is that certain African tribes have been drinking milk for at least as long as they've been drinking cow/oxen blood.

And while I haven't read beyond the titles of either of these linked articles either they suggest this research is a waste of time.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...e%20is%20clear.

https://www.mpg.de/16345629/0127-wis...rica-9347732-x

Only skim read both the links you put up but, yep, from reading the Daily Mail article, can't really see the point of this new research. Shouldn't be much of a surprise really though that any peoples who, for centuries, have drank the milk (or else used it in dairy products) from certain animals -whether cattle, goats, camels- should get used to this but have intolerance to milk from other sources.

[phild]

Why pick on white milk? Is it not diverse enough? I saw plenty of chocolate milk and coconut milk on tnem shelves yesterday in Asda

[Omegstrat6]

Quite right phild! Plenty enough diversity in milk as it is-full fat, semi skimmed, skimmed then chocolate, banana, strawberry etc. and even milk that isn't really milk pretending to be milk like soya, oat, hazelnut, coconut. Not sure about catmilk but then it always reminds me of that scene in "Meet the Fockers" 😁

[kettering_baggie]

Badger Milk, presumably is black and white striped! Check out Robin Evans Esq singing Badger Milk on YouTube.