Is milk racist .

[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