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Originally Posted by woob
There's no real reason humans should be drinking cow's milk, kids or adults. We do so because it was once thought to be beneficial and thanks to the continued barrage of Milk at School programs, milk does your body good advertisements, etc., people still think it's super awesome for them. Any person with any decent "Google foo" can find out pretty quickly that it's not all it's hyped up to be.
As far as children go, a well balanced diet full of veggies, nuts, and the like will produce far higher amounts of calcium and the vitamins found in milk. There might be an argument made for poorer families that milk is better than nothing, but given the high number of humans who have lactose intolerance (many who probably don't even realize it, they just live with the farting and bloating), it's still probably not worth it.
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Well, a counter-point to this argument is there is ample genetic evidence that many groups of European descent (or many other ethnic groups that depended on dairy) have adapted to milk consumption due to a mutation that continues lactase activity into adulthood.
If your body continues to produce the lactase enzyme in sufficient amounts into adulthood, it is quite possible you wouldn't even be here today if your ancestors had not adapted to milk as an alternative food source.
I am personally deficient in both the enzymes to digest milk (lactase) AND alcohol (acetaldehyde dehydrogenase) so I can't readily enjoy a bowl of cereal or Bowmore 15 (as recommended by another poster in this thread). I couldn't even put Whiskey in my corn flakes if I got laid off.