• setsubyou@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      In Australia, flavoured milk is huge. My Polynesian colleagues would wince when I downed a 600ml strawberry Big M while on smoko (break).

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      9 days ago

      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.