Humans weren’t built to consume cow milk. Most babies come with lactose digesting enzymes built in because milk is all they eat, but as we grow up and sprout teeth, we no longer need to receive all of out nutrients via boobies. In non-pastoral societies, many people become lactose intolerant as they grow up but in cultures where dairy is a common dietary component, the lactose digesting enzyme sticks around. Before pasteurization was implemented, not a ton of people consumed milk since it had a very short shelf-life and developed the tendency to infect the consumer with bovine tuberculosis. No body wanted TB, so long ago, the general public started shunning the opaque beverage. This caused a problem. The problem was that people stopped getting enough calcium to maintain healthy bones. The solution was pasteurization. Bada bing! No more TB and people could once again enjoy milk and calcium. The problem with this was that people still didn’t trust cow milk yet. Dairy farmers were suffering. While all of this leeriness towards milk was going on, the industrial revolution began to take place. Kids were heading into factory jobs before the sun came up and going home after dark so they were not receiving any sunlight. The problem with no sunlight is that the body is not able to produce Vitamin D. The problem with not making Vitamin D, is that the body is not able to synthesize calcium and maintain solid bone structure. Rickets is the disease that is suffered when bones become soft due to lack of calcium. Rickets can deform the legs, pelvis and any other weight-bearing bones. This leads to becoming crippled or even death. No one wants Rickets. The Dairy companies came up with a solution that saved everyone. They infused milk with synthetic Vitamin D and encouraged folks to drink boat loads of it so that they would once again get calcium and Vitamin D, even though they didn’t get a lot of sunlight. People swarmed out to buy milk and rickets became a disease of the past. The end.

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