Milk drinking

From: Carl Fink <carlf_at_panix.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:49:56 -0500

Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:  

> What I find really funny is that milk drinking in adults arose
> to combat vitamin D deficiency caused by lack of exposure
> to the sun in winter climes. Africans do not have this problem
> and so are generally lactose-intolerant. So to me, it's wierd
> as the Kresh hand-drawn wains and the lack of cattle among the
> Doraddi.

Way overstated. There are plenty of African pastoral societies, like the Masai, that drink milk.
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