The vast majority of people around the world are lactose intolerant. But American propaganda and scientific biases have made milk and dairy products a staple in global diets.
It’s genetic and we all grow up with milk as a normal thing in many countries with European heritage, so it’s easy to not realize that there are large populations where almost everybody is intolerant.
It’s genetic and we all grow up with milk as a normal thing in many countries with European heritage, so it’s easy to not realize that there are large populations where almost everybody is intolerant.
In Australia, flavoured milk is huge. My Polynesian colleagues would wince when I downed a 600ml strawberry Big M while on smoko (break).
Human babies are weaned onto calf etc milk
Weaning them onto calf etc milk is a slow process while they adapt to be able to consume something they were never meant to consume.