• and decided that we need some of that non-essential nourishment at any cost.

    But it was essential. Drinking cow milk was such an evolutionary edge that genetic analysis indicated every lactose tolerant person to have the same ancestor where it first occured some 6.000 years ago.

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      Drinking milk was not essential, as evidenced by your very mention of people being lactose intolerant to milk, a simple fact that proves milk is not essential.

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          Yes, following you down this irrelevant tangent that literally nobody has argued against except yourself, stolen baby xenomilk can be a dietary advantage for humans. We are omnivores, after all.

          I’m going to stick with the original point and maintain how strange it is.