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Maybe I don't understand cows. If you had milk to drink, then why couldn't you just drink the water that the cows and other animals drank?
by a3n 12y ago
Maybe I don't understand cows. If you had milk to drink, then why couldn't you just drink the water that the cows and other animals drank?
- eru 12y agoMilk has calories. Cows make milk calories out of grass. Grass is useless for humans otherwise.
- raldi 12y ago"Other researchers have suggested that fresh milk provided a more pure fluid alternative to contaminated water sources in arid environments" http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an-evolutionary-whodunit-how-did-humans-develop-lactose-tolerance http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an-evo... "Milk is uncontaminated by parasites, unlike stream water, making it a safer drink." http://darwinstudents.blogspot.com/2009/02/evolution-of-lactose-tolerance.html http://darwinstudents.blogspot.com/2009/02/evolution-of-lact...
- bane 12y agoCows convert grass and water into meat and milk. Humans convert grass and water into starvation.