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If you've got a big piece of land that will only support grass (i.e., no tomatoes or fruit trees or whatever) then you can only use that land to raise livestock. Food products from animals basically boils down to three kinds: milk, eggs, and meat. A diet consisting of all three is, I'm guessing, considerably healthier than one consisting of only one or two of those things. Plus, the logistics of subsisting on one cow's milk is a lot simpler than the logistics of subsisting on one cow's meat... if you see what I mean. So it allows you to survive on a smaller subdivision of land.
I know what you're getting at here, and you're not wrong exactly, but the above just doesn't happen with even minimal intervention. For one thing, the livestock's leavings could enrich the soil sufficiently within a few seasons to start growing other stuff, so long as you've got a basic water supply.
My understanding is that there are people who live on Siberian/Central Asian steppe who eat nothing but milk and meat for a considerable part of the year... but this understanding is based on vague memories of things I may have read long ago, so I'm not going to insist it has any degree of veracity.
If I give you a pint of cyanide-OJ and a shot of cyanide-OJ, you're not taking either one even though there's less poison in the shot, right?
Except that it has mass and volume and can come in a cup. "It's some percent lower" could mean the difference between Everclear and Bacardi 151 or the difference between Jack and beer.
Even then, it's not like you can't get drunk on beer because the percent is lower than Jack.
Except that its common advice that small lactose doses can build up resistance again. Apparently, enough parmesan will make you the Dread Pirate Roberts of dairy.
So the real question is what mass of lactose is present in three slices of pizza (minimum humane share per person of an ordered pizza) versus a glass of milk.
They aggravate the problem because they have significantly high levels of lactose, despite those levels being less than milk, all depending on how much of each you consume.
Yogurt, swiss cheese, and cottage cheese are listed as some of the most common aggravators of symptoms in those with lactose intolerance. Along with milk.
Which means I was correct, and you're being a fucking douche about it at this point.
Your argument seems to be that because their lactose content is some amount less than milk, it is therefore impossible for them to affect people with lactose intolerance. I'm trying to figure out how your brain works.
Also, yes, research seems to indicate that lactose tolerance is something we've evolved to. That doesn't make it good for you. It's better than starving and can definitely supplement a diet that is lacking in some key vitamins and minerals, but the dietary options available to those of us in the industrialized world make it more harm than good.
(I am lying.)
B.net: Kusanku
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lactose-intolerance/DS00530/DSECTION=7
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
California Pacific Medical Center
Lists all of those as foods that lactose intolerant should avoid.
The bottom line is that lactose intolerance can be mild to severe, and those in the severe category can't even handle a few milligrams of lactose that may appear in various processed foods, while those in the mild category are fine until they down two glasses of skim milk. There's no reason to think that someone who gets sick on cheese or yogurt is mistaken - many people are very sensitive to those levels of lactose.
Okay, fair enough.
I'll admit that my original comment was in part a response to people who are much like the "smug vegetarians" we're speaking of in a different thread. I've met (white, European-ancestral) people who refuse to eat even small amounts of cheese because they're "lactose intolerant." They tend to be picky eaters anyway.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Seriously.
If milk does have risks, they don't seem that high.
Everything can kill you.
Life is the number one cause of death.
Research has been shown to cause cancer in lab rats.
Again, the issue isn't that milk is the devil, it's that it has been traditionally advertised as a health product, when in fact it is probably a general rule that you are better off not drinking than drinking it, and still today is recommended by our government at levels that are probably at least triple that which is reasonably believed to be valuable, and it is doubtful if any amount is valuable.
For the record, for all my bitchin', I chug the milk daily and I'm a sucker for all sorts of milk and milkfat products.
We must stop all research immediately.