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[–] 66 points 3 months ago* (10 children)

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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Milking cows do better in cool temperatures, so it makes sense. The tropics don't support milking cows as I understand it.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Much of Columbia is at elevation, the temperature falls 3.5 degrees freedom (fahrenheit) for every 1,000 feet of elevation gain. Bogota is like 60 degrees year round, as I recall, or is it one of the others. But parts of Colombia are perfect for milk cows indeed regardless.

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

    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.

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