adorshki
Reverential Member
Oddly enough I stumbled across a vegan forum while I was trying to verify my memory of the report of monkeys going after cow's milk, right from the teat. Those same terms cropped up: "right" and "unnatural".
While I respect your opinion, I humbly suggest that linking "right" with "natural" can yield no valid logical conclusions.
I could come from the strictly evolutionary perspective and say that ANYTHING that contributes to the survival of the species is by definition "right", circumvention of mother nature included.
WE'd have to agree on the definition of "right" to really dig into this one, but I'm not out to convert the world to my viewpoint, so not challenging your definition either.
In fact simply because I have a morbid fascination with the whole question of survival of the (our) species, and whether or not we can in fact "justify" using the planet's resources to our selfish ends at the expense of other species, I assume a philosophical premise that "Darwin" had no conscience, and thousands if not millions of species have come and gone and preyed upon each other to extinction, with nary a twinge of guilt, long we before we appeared on the scene.
So notions of "right" and "wrong" are purely human inventions as far as I can tell. And in fact THEY probably contributed to species survival themselves, or they wouldn't still be giving us so much trouble.
For analogy:
Space travel is unnatural. Does that mean we shouldn't do it?
Going even further, did you ever come across Arthur C. Clarke's concept of terra-forming?
I mean, before we use up this one, we'll move on out to Mars and begin modifying the ecosystem of a whole new planet with the goal of making it habitable for humans without need to rely on oxygen masks.
Domesticating cows is child's play compared to the next stage.
I can't wait for environmentalists to get ahold of that one.
Wonder what Elon Musk would do.
But again, I'm not trying to shout you down here, I just delight in positing these intellectual fibrous masses.
I did recall one more anecdote about milk, from thet memoirs of a Viet Nam era vet. It always stuck with me because I related to it so strongly.
The guy was assigned to a Long Range Reconnaissance Platoon, you know, the guys who were dropped w-a-a-a-y out in the boonies to sneak around for two weeks and hope they didn't get their a--es shot off before they could get extracted again.
Anyway, the oldtimer tells the new guy one of the things he should do to prep for the mission is stop drinking milk.
Because in the boonies the craving for it gets unbearable.
Anyway, as a final question and to try to get back on topic, I wonder if Lipitor reduces the effectiveness of milk?
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