It's a strange thing when you think about it. Milk that comes from a cow is processed and distributed widely, and used for many things. I love the taste of milk and I love it with my cereal.
I'm curious how hungry or lonely someone must have been to drink a cow's milk and discover it's nourishing.
2007-11-11 21:19:51 · 6 answers · asked by Jean-Francois 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Perhaps from necessity.
But dont forget that humans are an ingenuitive and logical species... who emerged out of the bush as mammals and we are still mammals.
We already instinctively know about milk... from our mothers... programmed into our genes.
If we are willing to eat the meat of an animal, and the organs of an animal... and even some other unusual parts of animals... certainly the milk is no less appealing. And why kill the animal for its milk when you can harvest it alive?
Our mothers stop lactating. To say nothing of it being weird as adults. But animals give us that yumminess we crave.
Im taking a world history class at college this quarter. In the ancient Roman empire... in fact way back in the day of the empire... there was a myth even then... of the founding bothers of Rome. Romulus and Remus. They were raised and nurtured by a wolf in the wild... Roman statues portrayed these two infants nursing from a wolf. And that was ancient myth even in ancient times. The point here is simply that milking animals is far older than human record.
2007-11-11 23:40:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you look in the Bible, it goes back to the very early days. People regularly used goats as a milk source. Basically any 'mammal' gives their young milk. It could have been out of necessity because a young mother died while birthing a child or just someone who was hungry and there before them was a goat with milk. Who knows...The one I don't understand is who was the first to try eating a slug or a maggot, or how about the aborigines in Australia who eat all sorts of creepy-crawlies...ARGHHHH!
2007-11-12 14:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by Domino 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
possibly some previous creepy guy who had no person to have intercourse with went to have intercourse with a cow and have been given sexual with ite utters after which white stuff got here out and he's like mmm I wanna drink your beverages, so he did. So he then bought it and now human beings around the globe drink cow come daily
2016-10-02 04:30:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it was from necessity...mothers who were unable to nurse may have had to find a substitute for breast milk if a wet nurse wasn't available. It didn't kill the babies, so others started drinking it! At least thats my theory....
2007-11-11 21:29:36 · answer #4 · answered by stryderlarson 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My guess is it probably started when a woman died at childbirth, and a man needed to feed his new infant. He looked out and figured it was good for baby cows, why not baby people?
2007-11-12 02:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea just the thought makes me gagg - maybe thats why im not a huge fan of milk ?
2007-11-12 05:09:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋