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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 rem

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).