Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Unsurprisingly, American Explorer Terrible at Milking Cows | Expedition Raw" video.

  1. ***** We evolved to do it. There are at least three independent mutations in the human genome that allows adult humans to digest lactose (ordinarily a trait that disappears by adulthood for mammals). It's called lactase persistence. They originated in herding cultures - Indo-Europeans, Central Asians, and East Africans, and continue to spread to more populations through intermarriage (though the vast majority of humans are still lactose intolerant). It might seem disgusting when you think of it, but it was a very important part of why our species flourished. Almost as important as the discovery of agriculture itself. Milk is renewable (you don't need to kill animals to get it), a highly nutritious source of protein, and can be preserved as cheese or rendered to butter. It's the reason why so many cultures treat (or treated) cows as sacred.
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  2. Milking is hard. It's all about coaxing milk into the teat, cutting if off with the top fingers (so it doesn't flow back up when you squeeze), then squeezing the trapped milk down. For first timers, your fingers will ache for days afterwards.
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  3. ***** You're a vegan aren't you? Until humans find a way to extract nutrition from non-living matter and make it actually taste good, you will have to accept the fact that most food come from living things. If we could eat air, who wouldn't? But we can't. Your idealism is so typical of first-worlders. The rest of us, don't have the luxury of choosing between tofu or the real thing. Because yes, most of us are still struggling to survive. I doubt you'd even understand the irony that veganism itself exists only because of so much surplus in first world countries. Almost all of the products of industrialized agriculture go to your countries. Does the family in the video look like they grind their cows for dog food? Does it look like there's an upscale vegan supermarket anywhere near where they are? Do you think that even if there was, that they could afford it? Solve the root causes. Until starvation and malnutrition are things of the past, any screeching about animal cruelty is just hypocrisy. Pointing fingers is fun, but ultimately just a masturbation of the ego.
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  4. Yeah. So what are you doing about THAT? How exactly does your whining help feed any of those people? Do you think simply crying about poor animals is going to help anyone? LOL. Veganism could have been a great thing. The next step in human civilization. It's a shame fanatics like you have so thoroughly wiped it through the mud that no one takes you seriously any more. And no. Veganism isn't simply carrots and beans. It's about watching your nutrition intake. Your vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Getting all kinds of recipes and specialized technologies to mimic other kinds of food to stave off the fact that you're eating the same things almost every day. None of those are things an average peasant can keep up with. Only you. A first worlder with so much time on your hands, can do that. I bet you've never even farmed a single day of your life. Never actually produced the food you eat. Instead of trolling youtube, how are you doing about getting those carrots and beans to them, huh? What advances have you done to make plant-based diets easier to mass produce, be more palatable, and satisfy full nutritional needs? Oh wait. You don't do that too, because GMOs/science are also evil. Seriously. Take some time off from your hipster activism and actually VISIT a third world country. See the conditions before you talk magic and unicorns and rainbows from your first world paradise. Then again, you're not really in this to change anything are you? You're doing this so you can feel superior to the meat-eaters. That's obvious enough from your comment history. You can scream insults all you want, but you know deep down, you're not convincing anyone nor are you actually changing anything in this planet. Stop talking. Do.
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  5. *crickets*
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  6. You just copypasted your previous rant. LOL. A professional internet warrior who thinks he's actually changing things. NOT. ;) ................#.......... tumbleweed
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