cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro@feddit.online/p/1807812/europeans-consume-more-milk-and-dairy-products-than-people-in-other-regions
Source: Our World in Data.
Cheese, butter, and chocolate are like… really good
Torturing animals is not
Get over yourself
He/she is right though. Torturing animals isn’t “really good”. If you don’t see forced pregnancy with the kids taken away at birth and never beeing allowed outside as torture … Thats on you. I do.
Insufferableness wont win anyone to your cause
That’s not exactly surprising. Europe has a dispropotionally high prevelance of lactose-tolerance.
In most other places around the world lactose-intolerance is a lot more common.Milking cows do better in cool temperatures, so it makes sense. The tropics don’t support milking cows as I understand it.
I was in Colombia recently, (in the andes, not in the jungle though), but loads of cows there. They put cheese in everything. Even in their chocolate MILK.
Salty cheese or fresh cheese?
Their standard cheese is to me like feta cheese but from cow milk. So fresh cheese, but also salty. On a scale soft to hard i’d say you it’s so soft you can’t cut a neat slice but hard enough it keeps shape when you cut it.
That sounds more than disgusting, did you try it?
It was less disgusting as expected, and i’m glad i did that once. I don’t think someone can convince me to try again, but they are right: it’s a contrast of flavours and textures (which i guess, i do like).
Which causes what, though? You can condition pretty mich any body to be able digest milk just fine. Unless you are actually highly allergic to it, maybe. It‘s easier when you‘ve had milk growing up and never stopped but people who have stopped sometimes lost the ability to digest it properly. On the other hand there are former lactose intolerant people who brute forced milk consumption and after weeks of diarrhea adapted to it as if they never had anything else in their life. I think it‘s far less about generics than many people think.
Regardless, milk consumption has the nasty side effect of being terrible for the environment. CO2 emissions from milk products are insane.
Afaik, even if you’re genetically lactose intolerant, you can develop lactose digesting gut bacteria.
looks like my camembert habit can be detected from space
Makes sense, we developed a whole genetic mutation for it!
Just not flipping it off. Also some west-African tribe independently.
These numbers include dairy products such as yogurt and cheese, based on how much milk is used to produce them
So this is almost raw milk consumption in litre.
For the not included butter: 3-9 kg of butter are eaten per person. One kg needs about 24l of milk.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/butter-consumption-by-country
Thats crazy, we are picking up at least two pounds of butter a week. That sounds so high for milk to butter.
The fuck are you doing with a kilogram of butter a week?
Hopefully cooking for a family of 10.
Cooking, baking, toast
Milk has 4% fat, butter has nearly 100%.
5% fat but 100% reason to remeber the milk
Butter not included?
Yeah, this is such a weird thing to exclude. They’ve even included buttermilk, but not butter. What the heck.
Like it’s good to do studies and have data to support conclusions, but a cursory look at the cultures of Europe leads to the same point.
And let’s consider that milk products usually have higher greenhouse gas emissions…
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
Current heat waves in Europe are not undeserved…
Doesn’t matter whether a place or a person deserves it, climate change will come fuck you either way.
