Excerpt from "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"

[twynklebell]

Over thousands of years of history, a few isolated populations developed intimate relationships with their domestic animals and a genetic mutation gave them a peculiar new adaptation: they kept their lactose-digesting enzymes past childhood. Genetics have confirmed that milk-drinking adults are the exception to the norm, identifying a deviant gene

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[wine_o]

yeah, that's why most of the world is actually lactose intolerant. you are not alone