Who the hell decided to milk cows anyways?

Question

And what was he thinking???
Seriously.

Answer 1

Back in 1302, John "Twitchy Fingers" McGee was out strolling near a pasture on a summer day, when suddenly he saw her.... the sun was shining down on her big brown eyes and the flies were dancing magically around her head. No one really knows exactly what happened that afternoon, but McGee Dairy opened the following year.

Answer 2

Let's see, some guy walking around, sees a cow, gets nasty thoughts and starts squeezing the teats & says, "hey what's all this white stuff squirting out???" :-) Seriously I wonder why cows in the first place, why not horses or squirrels or something. What did the first cow look like anyway? When did the first guy milk a cow? Did he also try to milk random women walking by his cave??? Did this coincide with the first known "kick to the nuts"??? HMMM.. this is one of those questions that leads into a thousand other questions!

Answer 3

You've gotten a couple of serious answers (not many). I don't know what the current thinking on this is, but if you're really curious, you could do some net searching in anthropology/ archeology/pre-history of some such field. Try "early domestication of animals".

(My sister was always wondered about tapioca, as it's poison when not processed.)

My guesses, for what it's worth. It wasn't one person. It's pretty common all over, and was probably discovered repeatedly.

A baby without a mother, and someone trying to save it sounds likely. Or another animal, which the people who had it wanted to save. (I believe current thinking is that dogs were domesticated first. Maybe someone was trying to keep a litter of pups alive, but didn't have a nursing dog.)

When you think about it, though, there are a lot of other, similar things that are just as strange -- why did something think to do that?

I'm now going to go back and report some of the worst of your non-answers. It was funny, but this is an interesting question that deserves an intelligent answer.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

A man who changed the world

Answer 6

would you prefer to be milked then? Without milk you wouldnt have any butter or ice cream or cheese . Women cant produce that much milk

Answer 7

If you do a search on animal suffering
you would not wanna drink milk
for what they do to those animals is a nightmare
milksucks.com

Answer 8

"Cow's milk was first used as human food in the Middle East"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk

Answer 9

Someone saw the baby cow doing it so they tried it.

Answer 10

from what i know it had something to do with mothers who were unable to breastfeed so someone thought to get the milk from another mammal as for how all of the other dairy products came about, your guess is as good as mine