Humans have been drinking cow's milk for centuries, so why in the last 125 years have we started to pasteurize it? Follow back to the rabbit hole.

I'm your host, Danny, and today we are talking about the dairy industry.

Thank you, Will, Carter, and Katie for requesting this episode.

I am also very

interested in this topic. We drink raw milk in my house, but we will get more into that

towards the end of the episode. But of course, before we get started, I love to thank our sponsors.

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best ways to support this podcast, so we really appreciate it. Let's get into the history. So

humans have been drinking cow's milk for more than 10,000 years. This started with the

domestication of goats, sheep, and cattle during the Neolithic

or agricultural revolution. It started in the Fertile Crescent region, which is modern day, like

Middle East, and parts of Europe and South Asia. Leading up to this, humans were still in the

hunter-gatherer stage and only drank milk from their moms in infancy, rarely drinking

milk any other stage of life after infancy. We have archaeological evidence of milk processing

through residue analysis of ceramics from Anatolia 9,000 years ago. So they started domesticating

large mammals about 10,000 years ago and it is assumed that that's when the milking started, but actual evidence goes back at least 9,000 years.

In fact, in Europe, about 8,000 years ago, we find evidence of cheese processing.

Ceramics in Libya point to milk processing about 7,000 years ago and in, 5,500 years ago. Analysis of dental calculus

revealed people were either drinking milk or some other lactase-rich drink 5,000 years ago.

Why we started drinking milk is a whole different question in itself, because it seems weird

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