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		idnefju on Jan 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When cigarette companies used doctors to push smok... some humans have been drinking animal dairy for so many thousands of years that some ethnicities have evolved to have a lactose breaking down mutation into adulthood

daenz on Jan 20, 2022 | [–]

>evolved

Not disagreeing, but that's a much nicer way of saying that nobody wanted to mate with the ones having constant diarrhea.

lopis on Jan 20, 2022 | [–]

The amount of dairy and refined dairy products people consume today, like meat, is orders of magnitude bigger than back in the day.

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