Why is dairy considered a core food group?
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Question by irrevenant: Why is dairy considered a core food group?
Homo sapiens sapiens (modern humans) have not significantly evolved for at least 50,000 years. Humanity only domesticated cattle, goats etc. approximately 10,000 years ago.
Why is dairy considered an essential core food group when our species didn’t have access to it for the vast majority of our existence?
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If dairy is a core food because of the calcium content, how did we obtain calcium before dairy?
Tia: Do you have a source for prehistoric humans having inadequate bone strength? It seems illogical for them to evolve a deficiency that they couldn’t meet.
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I think its mainly for calcium because as we grow are bones need to and back then u could see they were very bent over and they didn’t live long because they didn’t have the resources and the food we have today except for meat fish and it was raw
Tia
November 20, 2013 at 4:43 pm
Because the dairy industries have engaged in enormous amounts of propoganda and advertising over the years and the huge majority of westerners now see dairy as a natural and essential food group.
It is not of course, and interestingly, the USA is the worlds largest dairy consumers….and also has the highest rates of osteoporosis in the world.
Cows are mammals, they produce milk is to feed their calves, just like humans produce milk for human babies. We have no reason to steal the milk of another species, nor to consume milk past infancy.
natural_mother
November 20, 2013 at 5:41 pm
the dairy industry programs people into believing it is.
the government subsidizes the dairy industry and wants us to believe we need cows (and other animals) milk
puddles
November 20, 2013 at 6:20 pm