Poo-poo platter?

See, now why you got to make things dirty? Here we're talking about dicks and butt-sex, and you gotta make a poo joke, How Uncultured of you.

In addition to where its been, I only have the one rag. It doesn't work so well near the end of the night.

I've been doing a bit of research on the biological processing of milk in the human body as well as it's chemical composition. I coupled that with some research on the American dairy industry, it's practices and social impact.

Basically, what I've come up with is that like many American agricultural industries, it lobbies pretty hard to further it's agenda. I've also come to the somewhat startling conclusion that dairy's inclusion on the food pyramid is a form of American Anglo-centrism.

Nearly 75% of Native and African Americans are lactose intolerant to some degree, and 90% of Asian Americans are. In fact, one of the only races of humans that are by and large lactose tolerant are, you may have guessed it, those of Northern European Decent (I believe those of Indian decent might also be tolerant for the most part).

I won't go into all the details of how a lactose intolerant person reacts to lactose, but suffice it to say that they would be best served by staying away from dairy products.

So, combining the high earning potential of dairy products, the lobbying power of that earning potential with American law makers, the general biological intolerance of dairy in a significant portion of Americans and the availability of all nutrients in milk from other sources (mainly vegetables like broccoli and kale which have calcium in similar amounts and equivalent or greater bioavailability.) I have substantiated my initial claim that dairy does not belong on the food pyramid.

Also, snakes don't drink milk, if you believe that you are either extremely gullible or have access to some wondrous information I do not. What you may have witnessed is an act by snake charmers who starve snakes for weeks and then present them with milk, the hapless snakes have little choice but to drink it. They die soon afterwards. Snakes do not have the necessary enzymes to properly digest milk, lactase is found only in young mammals and adult humans that are lactose tolerant.

My point about modern humans being around for a lot longer than 8500 years was just to prove that my hypothetical situation of no established civilization and no (if you want to nitpick then replace no in this instance with "rudimentary") culture could have existed somewhere in the 185,000 or so years before the advent of agrarian society.

Cheese is awesome.

I feel betrayed by cheese, it's delicious and I can't live without it but...

It's built itself a world of lies and delusion, it can't just be what it is. It isn't satisfied with just being delicious, it has to usurp a position in the lives and diets of all Americans by brute force.

Cheese is the Emperor Palpatine of food products.

Sometimes when I make sugar bacon I will put serrano cheese on it.

Are you saying. . .the cheese is a lie?

I don't even care, I could never live without cheese. And not just because my bones would shrivel up and shatter in a stiff breeze and fall like confetti without that calcium.

Yeah I'm right there with you with the evils of dairy thing but I cannot expunge cheese from my diet. My diet =! ethical consumerism.

I would'nt say it's an issue of ethics in consumption so much as ethics in advertising. Like, if dairy was presented as a luxury or non-essential thing instead of a necessity, it'd be cool.