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No Stupid Questions

71. Why Is Pig Milk the One Milk We Don’t Drink?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Also: what’s a food you love that seems disgusting to everyone else?

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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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