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People drink raw milk all the time (and until pretty recently in history, that's the only way it really came, until that Pasteur guy figured it out). Modern mi
by adhesive_wombat 5y ago
People drink raw milk all the time (and until pretty recently in history, that's the only way it really came, until that Pasteur guy figured it out).
Modern milk is homogenised to death because of squeamishness about food being biological in origin, people don't like lumps in their tea, and some people think cream bits means it's off. But within living memory, I remember cream on retail milk being quite common (and I'm sure it still is in places with local fresh milk).
True, it's not a great idea to drink raw milk due to various diseases, so you'd be better to heat treat it first, but you certainly don't have to homogenise it to drink it.
- kaba0 5y agoJust to add, drinking milk is pretty much only a thing of people from European descent — the gene responsible for digesting lactose can cause 3 variations: you can digest it as a baby (human milk also has it), you can digest it to around your teenage years, or you will be able to digest it afterwards as well. This variation is suspected to mutate during famines.