Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Everything tampers with everything else, it's called ecology.
I'm not so much sceptical of the distinction as totally hostile to it, to be honest. I think the idea that humans are separate and apart from nature is a root cause of so much of the environmental trouble we find ourselves in today. As far as drinking milk as adults goes - well yeah, it's "unnatural" in the sense that other animals don't do it. But humans do all sorts of things other animals don't do. I'm sure as hell not going to refuse life-saving drugs if I ever get really ill because they're "unnatural", and I suspect you wouldn't either.
Edit: but dairy is an extremely good source of certain nutrients. It's not hard to see the evolutionary advantage of drinking a litre of milk (say) to get the same amount of calcium you'd get from eating god knows how many cabbages or whatever, right?
I guess I can see four good reasons for not consuming dairy products: 1) you're morally opposed to keeping animals for meat or any other by-products like milk, 2) you're allergic or to some degree metabolically intolerant, 3) you're worried about consuming drugs and hormones that have been administered to the cows, and organic milk/cheese isn't available in your area or is prohibitively expensive, or 4) you just don't like the stuff. Clearly at least one of those applies to you, so you avoid it as a food group. Fine, no problem there, I mean what's it got to do with me anyway?
But arguments about it being "unnatural" are totally misguided as far as I can see - just an irrational prejudice.
I'm not so much sceptical of the distinction as totally hostile to it, to be honest. I think the idea that humans are separate and apart from nature is a root cause of so much of the environmental trouble we find ourselves in today. As far as drinking milk as adults goes - well yeah, it's "unnatural" in the sense that other animals don't do it. But humans do all sorts of things other animals don't do. I'm sure as hell not going to refuse life-saving drugs if I ever get really ill because they're "unnatural", and I suspect you wouldn't either.
Edit: but dairy is an extremely good source of certain nutrients. It's not hard to see the evolutionary advantage of drinking a litre of milk (say) to get the same amount of calcium you'd get from eating god knows how many cabbages or whatever, right?
I guess I can see four good reasons for not consuming dairy products: 1) you're morally opposed to keeping animals for meat or any other by-products like milk, 2) you're allergic or to some degree metabolically intolerant, 3) you're worried about consuming drugs and hormones that have been administered to the cows, and organic milk/cheese isn't available in your area or is prohibitively expensive, or 4) you just don't like the stuff. Clearly at least one of those applies to you, so you avoid it as a food group. Fine, no problem there, I mean what's it got to do with me anyway?
But arguments about it being "unnatural" are totally misguided as far as I can see - just an irrational prejudice.
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