I had the following conversation with my 4 year old son during breakfast.
Owen: Mom, do goats make milk?
Me: Yep, they sure do.
Owen: Is that where the milk in my cereal came from?
Me: No, that's cow milk.
Owen: Do we drink goat milk?
Me: No, but sometimes we have goat cheese.
Owen: Oh. Do sheep make milk?
Me: Yep, sure do.
Owen: Do we drink sheep milk?
Me: Nope. Only lambs drink sheep milk.
Owen: Do pigs make milk?
Me: Yes, honey. And horses, and cats, and dogs, and lots of other animals called mammals.
Owen: But we don't drink that milk?
Me: No, just their babies do.
---Several minutes pass---
Owen: Mom, do you share your mommy milk with the cows?
Me: Nope. Just Evan gets mommy's milk.
Owen: Well, if you're not going to share with the cows then we shouldn't drink their milk. It's not nice.
Me: Yep. You're probably right.
2 comments:
I agree Owen! I have never been a fan of milk, ever. I can count on two hands the times I've had a glass of milk in my twenties. I've been working on switching my girls to almond milk. I wish I could convince my husband that cow's milk was only meant for calves, not humans. I once got into a disagreement with an aunt about humans drinking cow's milk. She said that she grew up on a farm and cows "needed" to be milked, or they were miserable. She wouldn't be swayed, when I tried to explain the concept that the farmer was keeping her milk supply up and in nature she would nurse her calf and not need to be milked by a human. But, she also doesn't think anything is clean unless it reeks like chlorine bleach.
I think that's a popular belief about dairy cows... just because they are called "dairy cows" doesn't mean they HAVE to make dairy products. ;)
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