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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (13 children)

most of the world is allergic to milk, also breeding and killing cows contributes to global warming and animal torture

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

    most of the world is allergic to milk,

    I'm going to need to see some sources to back up that claim.

    Edit: this seems to say less than 0,5% of adult population is allergic to milk. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1939455122000229

    Lactose intolerance is more common.

    Experts estimate that about 68 percent of the world’s population has lactose malabsorption.1

    https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/lactose-intolerance/definition-facts

    But that's far from allergy. Allergies are more severe than just bloating, diarrhea and gas.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah I guess that's what they meant.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Has to be, only way it makes sense and would explain why i was surprised over it as I'm form EU and it's significantly less people are effected here.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Virtually all adult humans will develop some degree of lactose intolerance as they age. A lot of people just never connect the fact that they are getting more farty and bloated with dairy, so in cultures where dairy consumption is more culturally ingrained, mild to moderate lactose intolerance tends to be underreported.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I guess, you didn't claim otherwise, but just to point out that there's actually also a genetic change in cultures that have consumed dairy for longer:

    In northern European countries, early adoption of dairy farming conferred a selective evolutionary advantage to individuals that could tolerate lactose. This led to higher frequencies of lactose tolerance in these countries. For example, almost 100% of Irish people are predicted to be lactose tolerant.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    it might be far from allergy, but it makes no sense to consume such a thing

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    i think you mean lactose intolerant, milk allergy is sorta uncommon. most of asians are lactose intolerant due to not evolving with cow milk, but some european people are not lactose intolerant. other ways to get intolerant is through intestinal diseases, like parasites or celiacs, or gi infections. but lactose intolerant do build up as you age too.

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