You folks who have been flogging my milk post seem to have missed the point entirely. Who really cares if Grog on the Savannah killed a cow or goat and ate the milk it may or may not have had in it? All you can do is speculate whether or not ancient peoples did or didn't. We do not come home from a days work, change into a loin cloth, go out in the backyard and spear a cow from the neighborhood herd. What most of us do is go to the local store and buy a gallon of chemically treated Milk. It was my intent to point out that the Milk in the grocery store is not fit for human consumption due to the current processes used to treat the cows, etc. I'm one of the lucky people who can not tolerate dairy, therefore I avoid it at all costs. I don't care what kind of social event is going on, I do not use social events or any other lame reason as an excuse to change my dietary habits. That's like saying, "Well, I only drink and drive whenever I'm with someone else, normally I don't drink when I drive." You can speculate and debate the issue all night long, the simple FACT remains that a cow's milk is intended to be consumed by BABY COWS. A human mother's milk is intended to be consumed by HUMAN INFANTS, another FACT. How many gallons of human breast milk do you see lining the shelves at the local store? I have yet to see herds of women grazing in the field, hooked up to machines, pumping out gallons of hormone laden puss. If you happen to live on a farm and own a cow or goat that produces milk, and you happen to drink that milk, or churn butter or make cheese, great. More power to you, my question though, why not find a nursing human mother and squeeze out a tall cold glass of her milk? It's the same thing, only the human mother's milk is meant for humans, whereas cow's milk is meant for...who could have guessed it...cows. It's highly unlikely that you'll ever see cheese or ice cream or any dairy product boasting about the fact that they are made from 100% pure human mothers milk. And just why not? If a cow's milk is good for us, why not our own mothers milk? Any excuse you give is a mute point, there should be no reason from a natural standpoint to discriminate between the two if you believe cows milk is good for us. So, don't come back with some argument about human babies having to go without, cause we can line up women in a human dairy farm and load them with growth hormones too. I'm sure Monsanto can get them to produce plenty of milk. Why not? Forget the rules of society for the moment. Now, why is it absurd that a H/G would say that cow's milk is not intended to be consumed by anything other than a cow? For one, I don't know of any true H/G on this list, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting in front of a computer. The H/G would have had to kill a nursing mother animal in order to get its milk, in nature most nursing animals make an effort to hide themselves and their young from predators. Not that I've seen a cow dig a den or anything, but how likely was it that Grog happened upon a nursing animal in which to get the tiny amount of milk from? You don't know, you can guess, but you don't know. You don't honestly believe he sliced open the sack of every single kill and a gallon of Superbrand, Grade A homogenized plopped out do you? Perhaps Grog pulled out his Oreos and dunked them in the tiny amount that was available, perhaps he used his blender to whip up a frothy milk and blood protein shake? And, if you believe Grog just lazily sauntered over to the nearest nursing animal and squeezed out a few mouth fulls of milk, you obviously haven't tried to milk a wild animal before. I've had tame cows kick me in the process of milking them, luckily I knew what was about to happen and avoided the full force of the blow, we were not meant to get their milk. Ever see a cow kick its calf for nursing or trying to nurse? Don't even think you're getting next to a sow when she's got babies, unless you want to get hurt. Then again, maybe I've just been unlucky when I've worked the farms around here and have only met the nastiest of the animal kingdom. Sometimes I think you folks who like to put every little comment under a microscope, need to get out and enjoy life once in awhile. You take yourselves much too seriously. Then again, maybe this all you have to do with your life, what a shame to try and live in and analyze the past, you're wasting your life away. Why not dedicate your efforts towards paying attention to the here and now cause it's getting pretty ugly for the rest of us modern day suburban hunter gatherers. In case you haven't noticed, the landscape has changed dramatically.