Why IS this normal?
But we do this every day and call it breakfast.
How did we domesticate cows, commodify their milk, build entire industries around it, and forget that human milk exists?
How did foreign milk become "natural" while our own species' milk became taboo?
The cow knows. Look at her face. She's not confused. She's looking directly at you, carton in mouth, asking: You see the absurdity now, right? This is what we've done. We've made the foreign familiar and the familiar foreign. We've built refrigerators for cow's milk and pathologized adult nursing. We've normalized the strange and called the obvious deviant.
We've been drinking the strangest drink on Earth and calling it normal.
Why IS this normal?
But we do this every day and call it breakfast.
How did we domesticate cows, commodify their milk, build entire industries around it, and forget that human milk exists?
How did foreign milk become "natural" while our own species' milk became taboo?
The cow knows. Look at her face. She's not confused. She's looking directly at you, carton in mouth, asking: You see the absurdity now, right? This is what we've done. We've made the foreign familiar and the familiar foreign. We've built refrigerators for cow's milk and pathologized adult nursing. We've normalized the strange and called the obvious deviant.
We've been drinking the strangest drink on Earth and calling it normal.
