At 08:14 AM 12/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>Like Bruno Comby I strongly tend to assume that milk from nonhuman
>>species was never available under natural conditions and therefore is
>>not a food for humans (no genetical adaptation).
Hi Stefan,  Just to add my 2 cents,  I agree with Ben who wrote:
  However, it also seems that humans have been
>successfully milking dairy cattle, goats, and sheep for many hundreds upon
>hundreds of years with great success, and without many "unnatural" tools (Is
>a bucket to put milk in considered "unnatural?").  I'd be interested to hear
>why you think milking those animals is a bad practice.

Think about all the myths of humans living in the wild by sucking the milk
of wild animals, such as Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.  Surely
there is also a reason for such myths other than the political....
Janis