Would you have thought about milking a cow?

Question

does anyone else think that it is strange that someone at sometime saw a cow and thought "I'm going to pull on those things down there and drink what ever comes out"

Drinking two much is bad for you just to let you know everybody

Answer 1

Long ago and this is still true today that cows milk and the by products such as ice cream, cheese, butter and so on feed us with a healthy diet. without it babies and young children would die. Milking cows by hand before machines took over was the only way to get the milk out of the cow to feed the kids and adults. This practice is still going on today in 3rd world countries. It is not something to be made fun of or ridiculed.

Answer 2

Easily since I was born doing it. It comes naturally as *instinct* to the mammalian infant and as an observation once old enough to recognize the nursing behavior among the tribe.

Once you understand the difference in perspective of living like that then you might also recognize what was going on when you saw a full udder. Keen observation was crucial to survival.

In fact cattle were herded primarily to get things milk. They could be hunted by packs without actually herding them but doing so was a part of the sociocultural shift to becoming sedentary. It meant stability.

Anyway they milked goats long before they risked anything quite so big. ;-)

Answer 3

I have this sneaky suspicion that some person saw a calf nursing from it's mother, and got curious about the taste and figured out how to get the milk out. When they found they liked the taste, they probably decided to milk the cow. Evidently it caught on because we use cows milk more than goat's milk or any other mammals milk.

Answer 4

I heard this story from some people who came from a very rural village inside of Russia. When the cows got really swollen with milk during the day, they wandered down to a stream, where catfish came up from the bottom to milk them. It relieved the pressure and kept the cows healthy. People ate the catfish.

Answer 5

That is the wierdest thing in the food world that you could think of? People eat Mushrooms! They eat sea urchins! (mmmm-uni!) Why?
Well... When a hungry person sees another mammal eating it (say- a deer or pig eating mushrooms or truffles) they know that they can too! (of course over the years there have been awful 'oops i ate as bad one' deaths, but hey, what are you gonna do?)
Baby cows drink the milk. People see it, and try it! Also- milk- not so odd... we lactate too, after all!

Answer 6

wow! I posed that same question the other day. I don't know how someone would have thought of it. In addition to this question, if we drink cow milk, why hasn't someone decided that cat milk, dog milk, and milk from other such animals is ok too. Why just cows?

Answer 7

I suppose it was probably the correlation between infants nursing off of their mothers and calves nursing off of cows, but I'm with you! The thought that "Hey, if its good for a baby cow, its gotta be good for me" would have never have crossed my mind! The whole idea of drinking the biological fluid of another animal just isn't appetizing to me!

Answer 8

"I'm going to pull on those things down there and drink what ever comes out"
Are we still talking about cows? jk

Think about this one too...eggs. Whose idea was that? Someone too impatient to wait for it to be a chicken.

Answer 9

LOL best question i've seen yet haha
and yes...it's strange. it's also strange that people watch s%*t come out of a cow's A$# and think that it would be great to grow food that they're gonna eat after planting it in that.

Answer 10

Being raised as a country girl...no not really. If cows aren't milked they die. It would only take people so many dead cows to figure out that they needed milked...or they just would have watched calve's feed and realised it was good for you.