Thu, Apr-10-08, 06:14
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I was watching a special called "The Reindeer People" on National Geographic; it's an interesting documentary about small group of Siberian natives. They pretty much live on Reindeer milk - "until November when the Reindeer stop giving milk", then they turn to hunting. It's not an argument for Paleo dairy, but it was interesting how these primitive people basically integrate with the herd, almost like a symbiotic parasite. They tend to the Reindeer, keep them safe from wolves, pull thorns from them, etc. and drink their milk. It seems that it would have been very similar to how we first began using sheep, goats, horses, cows and camels for their milk. The other interesting thing, to me at least, is that Reindeer milk is 22% milkfat! (at least according to this site http://www.foodreference.com/html/fmilk.html ).
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