71. Why Is Pig Milk the One Milk We Don’t Drink?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 24 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't know my true self until this very conversation. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Angela Duckworth. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Stephen Dubner. |
| 0:08.6 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
| 0:12.2 | Today on the show, we have cow milk and goat milk. |
| 0:15.8 | Why not take milk? |
| 0:17.2 | They're smart, skittish, suspicious, and paranoid. |
| 0:20.6 | It sounds like a good description of a University Chicago economist. |
| 0:25.5 | Also, what's a food that seems gross to most people, but you find delicious? |
| 0:31.0 | I think a lot of the foods I like are discussing to many people. |
| 0:35.5 | Stephen, we have an email that is about a really interesting question. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm going to read it to you. |
| 0:45.4 | Please. |
| 0:46.4 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:47.6 | This might in parallel your no stupid questions theory, but why don't humans drink pig milk |
| 0:53.8 | or consume pig milk products? |
| 0:56.6 | Is that too stupid a question? |
| 0:58.8 | The email goes on. |
| 1:00.2 | Camels, cows, goats, yak, mousse, sheep, buffalo, reindeer, wherever a sizeable mammal has been |
| 1:05.4 | domesticated for food, it seems that some group of humans has incorporated its dairy into |
| 1:10.2 | their diet. |
| 1:11.2 | Why not pigs? |
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