I read a blurb in a paper the other day a couple of quotes from Heather Mills. I had to shake my head and laugh. Maybe she was trying to make a point about her beliefs but it came out sounding very stupid thanks to poorly phrased sentences and erroneous vocabulary.
First quote:
"We are the only species that drinks another person's milk, so why aren't we drinking rat's milk, or dog's milk, or cat's milk, that's how crazy it is."
Well, Heather, most of us do drink another person's milk because after our mother's give birth to us we drink - yup, you guessed it - our mother's milk. And as far as I can tell, our mothers are a different person from us and therefore their milk can be classified as another person's milk. I highly doubt you drank your own.
Of course, maybe you meant to imply that cow's are people. If they were we certainly would be drinking another person's milk. However, I am pretty sure that bovines are not even in the same family as homo sapiens (same class though: Vertebrata) so I don't think we can call them people. Maybe you meant to say that we are the only species that drinks another species's milk. But then don't cat's like to drink milk? I know my old dog used to like milk. That makes at least three species I can name off the top of my head that drink cow's milk.
Now about the rat's milk. Honestly, Heather, how many rats do you think you'd have to milk to get a litre of milk? Are you going to do it or should we start a new industry for rat's milk. I am sure it would be expensive, as would cat's milk. As for dog's, well, the bigger ones might be worth it. I mean, hey, we drink goat's milk too right? And in Mongolia they drink horse's milk. Hey, maybe somewhere they do drink dog's milk! Or did you mean to say we don't drink the milk of other animals, only cows? In that case refer to my goat's milk and horse's milk comment. While you are naming mammals we don't milk, why don't you say elephants, hippos and whales? They are big enough that they must produce more milk than rats and even goats. Maybe there's a good reason why we drink cow's and goat's milk. Ever see a whale or an elephant with a big lactating udder?
You mentioned something about it being crazy that we are not drinking rat's milk, etc. At least, your wording makes it sound like you think it's crazy that we don't have this fine selection of nutritious and refreshing beverages stocked on our grocery store shelves. So, are you saying that if we could choose from an array of mammalian milk sources you would favour its consumption? Again, from your wording, that's what it sounds like.
Second quote:
"It's mad that we are even having cow's milk. Even cows don't drink it after one year but we continue forever."
Sorry, did you just put "mad" and "cow" together in the same sentence? Careful there - you don't want to start another panic.
So we continue drinking milk forever. Do you mean "forever" as in "all eternity" you do you just mean, like, you know, forever... What are you, some kind of valley girl? Like totally.
Well, let's see, in China they eat sea horses and have bird's nest soup. In some places you can eat insects and then there's European blood sausage - you know how that's made, right? And there's haggis and tripe and just a cornucopia of bizzare sounding foods. People eat almost anything, you know. So if cow's milk provides us with calcium and iron and other things that are good for our bodies then why not drink it? If you don't like it, then don't drink it. And while you're at it, no yogurt, cheese, ice cream or sour cream for you either. Milk chocolate is out, too.
In the mean time, if you want to make an argument for not drinking milk please try to make it sound above junior high school level. Had you written this, your teacher would have marked your paper with a number of red circles.
hotaka posted on Nov 27, 2007
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Fallyn said on Nov 27, 2007....
we don't drink cat's dog's and rat's milk because they are carnivorous, ......the species whose milk we drink are grain eaters....it tastes better i'm presuming.
....add camels to the species whose milk is drunk around the world.
oh...and pigs like cows milk too.
but if you really think about it too hard....it does seem an awfully STRANGE custom to drink another species milk.
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hotaka said on Nov 27, 2007....
There's exactly a good point: cats, dogs and rats are carnivorous and that's why cow's and goat's milk is better for us. But human's are omnivores and so are bears. I wonder how bear's milk tastes? Maybe, like babies drinking mother's milk, we could only drink bear's milk through our infant stage.
It might seem strange to drink another species milk but I have heard of bird's nest soup and catapillar poop tea and if you ask me, that's even weirder. I guess it is only strange if you are not used to it. Isn't it the Masai people who drink the blood of cows? Say, isn't wine made from fermenting grapes? That sounds a bit gross too. And Danish blue cheese actually has the mould on it. But it tastes good to me. Cheese is a funny food too if you think about it.
Often I wonder how the human race ever decided to turn some things into cullinary delights.
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Fallyn said on Nov 27, 2007....
yup.....i think it's better sometimes to just not think too hard about what we put in our mouths or we might just starve to death.
i had trouble eating yogurt for awhile cause i couldn't stand the thought of the live cultures in it.
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silverwhisper said on Nov 27, 2007....
is it weird that i don't know who heather mills is?
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Fallyn said on Nov 27, 2007....
nah, not really.
she's really really pretty though.
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pickersplock said on Nov 27, 2007....
Ha, Ha, I can see the ad now;Got Rat's Milk? -
crybabylu said on Nov 27, 2007....
Ed, Heather Mills is the one that is holding out for millions in her divorce from Paul McCartney. She is totally ditzy. Now, they are showing interviews with her ex-sister-n-law that is really trashing her bigtime. Thankfully, when her and the 1st ex husband split, he went on to make his millions after the divorce.
I don't like her. And I say that about very few people in the news.......dee
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hotaka said on Nov 27, 2007....
I had read about Heather Mills before but forgot who she was soon after. I am so out of touch with celebrity gossip and the latest popular dramas and music at home that one name is as meaningless as the next. I just figured that since she was in the paper somebody must know who she is. -
queenparanoia said on Nov 28, 2007....
bwahahahahhahahahah that bitch is the most stupid woman i know!!!! bwahahahahaha she's most attention whore ever!!! hehehehehehe thanks for making me laugh hotaka... i know heather mills since she's always in the news and i hate her... =) -
lfbno7 said on Nov 28, 2007....
allergic to milk. it gives me really horrible bellyaches, Elvis bellyaches, like you wanna die bellyaches, like you start to pray to end the pain bellyaches. I remember many years ago when I was suffering from these bellyaches and I decided to eat something I considered safe, so I had milk and cookies. Wrong fucking thing to do. Trial and error, learn from your mistakes. Then there was the lobster dinner with all that yummy "drawn butter". And more prayers to get through the pain. Dairy and I are not friends. Then there was that young girl at work, Cheri, the one who gave me an issue of Cosmo to read, and I see the cover story is about how good it is for single girls to have affairs with married men, hint hint, and she tells me that I'm lactose intolerant, and that was so long ago that I didn't know what she was talking about, never heard the phrase. My dairy motto would not be "Got Milk". It would be "Milk Hurts".
To Hotaka, I clicked on Submit comment and nothing happened so I'm going to try again. If this comment appears twice, please delete one of them. -
Fallyn said on Nov 28, 2007....
milk hurts. tha'ts really funny.
but i know how serious if you have it.....
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Alyss said on Nov 28, 2007....
Heather Mills is a celebrity about whom I have mixed feelings. On one hand she has done a lot for charity but her behaviour in recent months does not show her in a good light. -
GumpyJumptooth said on Nov 30, 2007....
It's like when people come to my door and say, "Would you like to contribute to muscular dystrophy?"
I just say, "No, I'd like to help to PREVENT it." -
hotaka said on Dec 02, 2007....
Hey, Gumpy! Now if they were talking about the sperm bank the phrasing would be correct.
Ifbno7, that's gotta be tough. Do you ever have to check packaging to look for, "May contain dairy products"?
queenP and Alyss, I can't say I know enough about her to have a strong opinion about her. But her comment sure caught my eye and made me question something about her intelligence.