Drinking Human milk more natural?

Thank you "nonsense". You wrote exactly what I planning on writing. I believe that I read recently that the genetic mutation that allowed human adults to tolerate milk increased dramatically in these european populations during this time, demonstrating that the ability to tolerate milk was important for survival at this time. An important "NATURAL selection" development.

Oh, and since it is clearly unnatural for man to fly through the air, since he is no a bird, I will never fly on an airplane again.

Another funny argument by anti-milk people is: since a lot of people are lactose intolerant, therefore no one should drink milk. What?? A lot of people are allergic to peanuts, should I cut those out of my diet too.....you know, just in case?

OK, here is an excerpt saying essentially the same thing to what I had read recently:

" Whenever it started, the mutation spread extremely rapidly through Northern and Central Europe. In only a few thousand years – the evolutionary blink of an eye, considering that our branch of the family tree split off from that of the chimps five or six million years ago – the mutation went from uncommon to very common.

"It's incredibly quick," says Joachim Burger, an anthropologist at Mainz University who co-authored the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It's a trait that rises from close to zero to close to 100 per cent in England. It's enormously quick."

Clearly, being able to drink milk had to have given a pretty big survival advantage to become so common so quickly. Burger says that milk drinkers probably had a nutritional edge that helped them get through lean times.

While the only choice of a lactose-intolerant herder facing starvation was to start killing cows (or wait for the cheese to ripen), a lactose-tolerant herder could just keep drinking milk, and come out of the famine well-nourished and with his herd of cows undepleted.

Even in less dire circumstances, a milk drinker would probably stay better nourished and therefore more likely to survive and pass on his or her genes to the next generation.

In fact, lactose tolerance is such a great advantage, it seems to have developed and spread more than once in human history. Recent studies on African and Middle Eastern people who drink milk show that they have completely different mutations than the Europeans.

In other words, herders in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East all developed lactose tolerance independently of each other, and all found it so useful that the trait became common in their descendants."

Nonsense..... wrote:

Humans began to domesticate goats about 12000 years ago and cattle 10000 years ago. Among other things, this provided a supply of milk, which offers a good supply of calories and high quality protein. Some humans in cattle-raising societies had a genetic advantage in their ability to comfortably drink milk, and their descendants enjoy that advantage today.

Arguments about drinking cows milk being strange or unnatural are completely bogus. It's natural for humans to use their advantages to improve their chances of survival and their children's chances of survival. It's no less natural for humans to domesticate animals and drink their milk than it is for them to domesticate plants, smelt metals, or develop a system of written communication. Yet the anti-milk crowd loves to post about how drinking milk as adults is unnatural because no other species does it ... while conveniently forgetting that posting on the internet is equally unnatural using that criterion.