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What do you mean "chunks of fat"? Do you mean the fact that milk naturally separates after some time? I'm pretty sure chunks of anything in a cow's milk that is

• throwawaycities 5y ago
  > Ask basically any dairy farmer, and they will be happy to tell you they drink the milk straight from the cow. Not modern dairy farmers with cows loaded up with antibiotics, which generally all accumulate in the fat (cream). Even for organic farmers drinking unpasteurized milk would be an exception not the rule, it’s just an unnecessary health risk.
• failrate 5y ago
  I grew up on a farm, and I milked the cows and sheep. When milk is brand new, it is not homogeneous. To get what we buy in the store it must have excess fat removed off of the top, pasteurized, and homogenized. We had a machine the size of a large water cooler with three different spouts on it to do the initial separation.
  • watwut 5y ago
    But you don't have to do any of that to actually drink that milk, get nutricients and be fine. Two of these are basically matter of preference. And "people deep in the past", whatever what it means, would want to eat fat with all its calories and all that. And pasteurization makes it safer, but is not necessary strictly speaking. I can even still buy unpasteurized milk - but it is more expensive due to higher hygiene requirements currently. But in the past, they would just drink it (and get sick occasionally).