The Science of Animal Milk: From Cows to Cockroaches
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- Would you ever try dog milk? Cockroach milk? What about...cow milk? The world of milks is much wider than you might think- join Hank Green and learn about the essential world of milk and how it is crucial to the development of many animals' offspring.
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Hearing descriptions like “starts off sour” or “is getting bitter” means that people are test tasting these milks.
If you think that is wild, look into how often people used to taste and smell random chemicals in lab settings
yes, he told that a guy tasted it.
@@relax_chiguire yes, but the way Hank said it made it sound like it happened once or twice. But finding out that the milk is changing flavors means it happens on a regular basis.
I mean, unlike lots of other things we eat, milk is produced specifically to be consumed (by mammals, even). So, to me anyways, it's not nearly as weird as, say, taste-testing mushrooms.
Guess how doctors found out about sugar in diabetic’s urine before chemical analyses :-)
My breastmilk was yellow, and regularly developed butter when expressed milk was stored in the fridge. Also, the babies gained weight really fast. I was criticized for overfeeding my son, until I informed them that the infant was breast-fed on demand, and then was praised. Nurses were impressed
It's high in fat. ALL women tend to have higher fat milk when their baby is first born. And for those that are preemies, like my son, it stays with an even higher fat content for longer. When breastfeeding after giving birth, checking the color of milk os one thing the nurses are supposed to do. If it is too white for whatever reason, the baby may not be getting everything It's supposed to and they may have to look at supplementing with formula. And even "whiter" hunan milk is still fairly yellow unless they are starting to dry up and produce much less.
how has the health of your child been?
Everyone was surprised how big my preemie was until I told them he was breastfed and then nurses and docs were like "oooooh. That makes sense."
I did not know breast milk could turn into butter…
I had a pet cockroach that I found upside down in front of my office door, apparently after a hard life of insecticide abuse. She liked broccoli, tea an bagel pieces. She died many years later, totally gray, standing up. A palmetto bug.
Did u name her?
That was a sweet story, thank you. Sounds like she turned it around and was able to live out a dignified life 😂
"And even if you find one, it's still a rhinoceros. Have you seen one of those things?" was the funniest thing I've heard all day. Reminded me of Mulaney.
with scishow being now almost 10 years old, those compilations get really interesting with respect to how the hosts changed and how the show itself changed.
I hit 23 years old I started having issues with ulcers and gastritis... 10 years later I stopped drinking milk after I started understanding my biology. Within a day my ulcers had stopped and I stopped taking medication. No doctor ever thought of telling me to stop drinking milk because I was lactose intolerant. They were happy to take my money for 10 years. I don't know about other part of the world but if you African with constant ulcers and or gastritis and you have milk in your diet, please stop for a few days or weeks then observe how your tummy reacts.
That is awesome. I am glad you figured it out and were able to rectify the problem by stopping consuming milk products. I too had a bit of a journey till i figured it out for my health too.
(Sorry for the late comment) Made a similar experience. For many years I struggled with really bad acne and no matter what I did or what the doctor did; it didn't go away. Eventually I made a test (after reading how anything we eat goes right into our skin and bad food makes the skin react negatively). Replaced cow's milk with almond milk and within two weeks my skin cleared up. Haven't consumed any dairy since then. Now that there is a family history of breast cancer, the massive amount of hormones in cow's milk would put me at a higher risk.
When I started attending South university psychology classes, about a week in my teacher used these videos (the scishow psych) and because I binge watch stuff like this I looked like a genius in a class by being able to answer questions I already knew the answers to.
I long for a day these are actually relevant for me to start spouting off weird facts
Actually, the butter fat in milk varies greatly. Holsteins, is one of the lowest butterfat calls at 3.5% average. Depending on feed, the time of year, age of the calf, and how close it is to being freshened or was freshened. The Holstein milk is called a blue milk, because of a low butter fat. Jersey, Guernsey, brown Swiss, and others such as this give yellow milk or full bodied milk. These give the best milk for cheeses.
Guernsey and jersey runs a solid 4.7& to 4.8% butterfat. The quantity of milk varies as well the higher the butter fat the lower the quantity as a rule. The cause of 1600s gave about a gallon plus or minus a day. The cows such as Holsteins can give 6 gallons a day. The amount of water that the car gets also has influence on how much milk they give as well as the genetics.
Cows is milk has pretty much the same milk profile case with variations as to the grasses and his feed. This will influence the taste of the milk. It’ll still be identifiable as cows milk.
I'm assuming you work with cows. Haha
Reading this gave me an aneurysm
Spell check
I've been enjoying my raw milk from a cow share. She's a Jersey.
Correct, but With Milk it is NOT 3.5%...that is by weight, not calories (milk is the ONLY food fat measured by weight - because of the milk lobby). 1 cup of whole milk has 149 calories, 72 from fat (8 grams of fat x 9 calories per gram). 72/149 = 48% FAT
"Milking a human sized cockroach"
That image will scar me mentally.
How about milking cow sized almonds
I'm picturing Farmer Brown rounding up the tiny little herd for milking. Lol!
Then you should read Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Cockroach sized humans?
@@yYSilverFoxYy Those are fairies. Or brownies?
I'm hard of hearing so the scripted subtitles are a great feature, I recommend every one turn them on and go to 7:00
they're not that accurate but they work!
Yes I agree, everyone should really utilize that feature at that point in the video 🤣🤣 I was LOL
Don't look at me like that!
great, now im wondering how much secret content im missing by not reading the captions on videos that ave them..
Look at you like what? Lol
I remember studying the development of milk digestion in humans at uni; If I remember rightly, the ability for adult humans to digest animal milk evolved on five separate occasions. 3 times in Eurasia and twice in the Americas. The adaption involved mutations on two separate genes. Three of the population's evolutions happened on one of these genes, and the two other populations had the mutation on one other specific gene. Both had the same result of being able to digest milk. I don't remember any other of the specifics, but it was enough for milk digestion to be apparent in western Europeans, some South Americans, and also among the Mongol hordes among others. The development of human digestion of animal milk is an idea that pervades many hippy ideologies, but actually happened a fair bit.
Everyone Hank hires must have to attend a class where they learn to speak with Hank-esque cadences and tones.
Better than the NPR’s weird mix of “force a smile while you talk” and “asmr register”. Trust me sarcastic praise of cockroach clusters is better than vaguely implying that war crimes are “scrumptious”.
Hank produces and directs many of the other folks who get hired :)
The cadence and hand gestures are actually realy important. They have a powerful subconscious effect.
@@robomonkey1018 ... and what exactly is the effect?
@@robomonkey1018 are we being hypnotized? Does Hank have a nefarious plan for all of us?
Milk is unappetizing when one considers what it is, but it seems positively wholesome when compared to the secretions of roaches.
Still expect to see someone try to sell cockroach milk 🤢
@@deed5811 _"You vill drink cockroach milk and you vill be happy"_ - Klaus Schwab WTF
@@joecaner Not happening! 😂
I can’t wait to get my hands on some
Nothing wholesome about the dairy industry. Its full of abuse and suffering.
Can I just say how much I LOVE having these compilations every once in a while?! Thank you! ✨
0:40 See Hank deage almost 10 years in 5 seconds.
Ancient Hank! Ancient Hank!
I know it was so weird
Isn’t it “Hunk”?
So what causes antibiotic resistance? Animal farming aka the dairy industry
I'll point out there's also a range of lactose intolerance. My mom is quite lactose intolerant (lactase pills or lactose free dairy for anything), my dad has no problem with milk. Me, I became mildly intolerant in my early 20s. No problems with cheese or (most) ice cream, but I do get symptoms if I accidentally ingest something with too much milk in it. Usually, I just take a pill to be safe.
what symptoms do you experience?
My mum has an anaphylactic reaction to milk that started in her 40s, I am lactose intolerant but can handle small amounts of dairy with only mild discomfort but I was completely lactose intolerant at birth to the point that I almost died from gastric blockage and the UK/Scottish NHS had to have lactose free formula specially imported from "Scandinavia" so Sweden or Norway most likely"
Ahahaha!! " Don't look at me like that. You know you were wondering what human milk tastes like. "
Lol, have been searching for this comment. (For those who don't know, turn on the "English"-Subtitles and watch the video from ~7:00, after he talks about how milk helps the baby's immune system, to read it.)
Vanilla
I tried it when nursing infants
@@KristiContemplates I wonder how it tastes like, i’ve only had cow or goat milk.
@@eggrollsoup extremely rich
I just want to note that not all people around the world traditionally consume animal milk. Chinese people for example didn't begin to consume dairy until about 100 years ago. If you look closely, no traditional Chinese food is made from dairy.
Even if you exclude the minorities like Manchu, Mongolian, etc. in China, the Han Chinese were enjoying milk during Tang and Song Dynasties.
白居易《晚起》：融雪煎香茗，调酥煮乳糜。慵馋还自哂，快活亦谁知。
杨万里《除夜小饮，叹都下酥乳不至》：雪韭霜菘酌岁除，也无牛乳也无酥。贫中却富何人会，自有村醪不用沽。
how has their health and longevity been before they started consuming dairy and then after consuming dairy?
When I was nursing my daughter I used to express milk for her. This milk was always kept in a thermos bottle specially bought for this purpose. My husband, being a bit of an idiot, was looking for milk to put in his coffee. Why he opened the thermos and why he thought it was a good idea to put some of the stuff in his coffee I still don’t know. What I know is that he was a bit taken aback when I told him he was drinking my milk in his coffee. I don’t know why it gave him this icky feeling. After all,he was also nursed by his mum.
Probably because most people who havent breastfed consider human milk to be similar to drinking other human secretions. Not quite sure why though
I would definitely grab that thermos on purpose, if it were me.
@@joshharris3040 😄
I used to be quite curious what human milk tastes like, but now that I'm feeding my baby with (my own) expressed milk I delved into it a little more and it turns out there are quite a few serious diseases you can transfer via human milk, including HIV. Obviously, if you only drink your mom's milk and there's no reason to assume she might have a disease, that won't likely be a problem, but given the risks involved it might be adaptive for (even lactase producing) adults to be put off the stuff.
@@Snowshowslow in this case though it was her own husband... and she said he was breastfed when he was a baby too. seriously why was he grossed out lol.
Lol @7:00 closed caption reads “dont look at me like that.”
Haha, then it says " You know you were wondering what human milk tastes like."
That video got me thinking. It would be weird from an alien's perspective that we don't make our dairy products from human milk. I feel like even if there was a synthetic or humane way of getting human milk most people would still find it offputting. We really are such a weird species.
I feel like it would end up being normal a few years after a synthetic version was created, some rich person starts drinking it to get into shape for a movie, then everyone else tries it as a fad, and only gets more popular from there. I'd prolly steer clear though, at least until it was confirmed 100% synthetic. Don't want to have to worry about whose chest contributed to my Mac n' Cheez
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 Random Question cause why not:
Are you a Veritasium Fan?
@@nenmaster5218 I'm probably a medium level fan of Veritasium, I watch a lot of his videos, but I haven't binged the entire channel yet. Are you also a fan?
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 Yep.
Though i think his channel is clunky compared to the arguably Best CZcamsr i know: Hbomberguy.
That one is so humble, he calls himself a Fool and wants to inform himself. He preaches that if even he can learn about something, his Audience can EASILY do too. He's the opposite of Arrogant, if you ask me.
@@bobthegamingtaco6073
Either way though: I dont plan on stopping. I dont wanna ever do the mistake to 'stop learning'.
Left out another important mammal characteristic... multiple (2 or more) specialized tooth types in a single jaw.
Although not a mammal, dimetrodon was closer to a mammal than a reptile even though it's often included in dino playsets and its name reflects this, meaning "two measure tooth"
Those 3 things are qualities unique to mammals; while Synapsids, like dimetrodon, are closely related to mammals and some were mammals ansestors, they are not considered mammals.
I thought When he said “most people don’t continue to drink human milk through out their lives, if they did that would mean…” I almost thought he was going to say they have some kind of fetish 😂
In Mexico when I was a little kid people would drink donkey milk when they had an illness, also dogs in Mexico are mutants as well they can drink milk too
"Polar bear moms unknowingly pass the pollutants through their milk"
Mother bear: I hate that I have to pass these pollutants in my milk, but if it means my cubs will live, it's a necessary evil
Never thought I'd hear the word "milk" so much in one day
But _why_ would anyone even _consider_ mass-producing roach milk?!?
why not.
Omg I’m so glad I didn’t watch this 🤮
Roach farms already exist, might as well wring 'em dry before cooking them or using them as mulch for the next crop of roaches
I saw a documentary on the arabic industrial camel dairy production farms. They avoid most of the cruelty of the cow dairy farms. And they produce all the by-products such as cheese, yogurt, butter and so on. It was very interesting. They said that for strangers, they need a little time to adapt to the flavor. I thing it’s like goat milk or sheep milk.
What cruelty are you referring to? As far as I can see, other than de-horning, there wouldn't be much difference. The main cruelty involved with dairying is removing calves from their mothers at five days, and the necessary meat production that results from it.
Given the choice between roachmilk and just giving up all dairy products, I'll take the latter, yeugh!!!!!!!! :S
Sign me up for the roach milk. Semiskimmed
What if the roach milk actually tasted good?
I would use the roach milk to bake instead of drinking it so that the milk is harder to taste lol
i mean, god bless the soya
@@Caio-sw7hh I'd take real milk over your disgusting estrogen "milk" any day of the week
The “skimmest” milk out there is the milk John Green uses for his cereal: WATER.
I use grape juice for my cereal
*_OH GOD NOOOOOOOOOO_*
@@MichaelHarto WHAT THE HECK
@@clem719 i dare you to try it and i frikkin bet you will never go back
@@MichaelHarto with what kind of cereal?
When Hank said: “We don’t exclusively drinks the milk if our own specie!” - f-ing died choking on my coffee. Like I’m gonna pour some tt milk into my coffee or every morning visit the local maternity ward and milk my own gallon jugs.
Want more scienc-channel? I ask around if someone wants
to know some to check out.
My pops was in Vietnam. He tells of a local mom that was lactating. Because of the hard life, she LOOKED like a mostly toothless old crone - but with a great sense of humor and grin...
I don't know if my dad was one of the guys, but I guess quite a few would line up with their cups of Joe. As they went by her one at a time, she would do just that - squirt a little cream into the soldier's mug 😆
"Don't knock it til ya try it" 😉
Read the title as "the SCIENCE!!! of milk" like Austin is haunting titles now
Just needs 15 straight seconds of swearing when he runs into a problem
Not titles, just our minds. :)
Fun fact: pigeons produce and give their babies milk. No seriously, look it up. So do flamingos and male emperor penguins.
It's true, I have to rescue, rehab and release wildlife, mainly birds, often Pigeons!!
The babies need to be given a special mix of bought "Crop-milk" then move on to cream of sweetcorn, and mashed peas etc... AX
My grandparents used to keep pigeons so I watched baby bird feeding a lot. I would call it vomiting into the baby’s mouth rather than giving milk. Also the pigeon babies are fed like this almost until adulthood.
@@yYSilverFoxYy Pigeons produce a milk-like substance from their throat pouches called crop milk. It's not real milk but it serves a similar purpose.
I made the same comment without knowing about yours lol, sorry about that. I didn't know that flamingos made milk, interesting.
Funner fact: Mammal, pigeon, flamingo milks, as well as DIscus fish mucus they feed their young, all share the same hormonal pathway to produce them.
Who the hell looks at a roach and thinks...
"I can milk this..."
.... I know you were obviously joking, but ....
It's pretty interesting to think about, as they study cockroaches for their job or as a hobby, and they come across this one species that gets really plump and then spits out live babies cockroaches; woah! From there it's just a matter of investigation.
Who looked at a Beehive and thought “I bet there’s something delicious in there”.
Roaches are already being raised as livestock for food and pharmaceutical purposes, so yeah, might as well try squeezing them to see what comes out.
@@FreedomAnderson how about someone who saw a monkey with a stick reach into it or a bear eating a hive.
@@kly8105 Even the first apes and bears needed to figure it out. Although bears can probably sniff it out really easily.
Fun fact: Pigeons produce their own kind of milk through their crops.
thats not milk.
@@spatrk6634 indeed it isn't. But people still call it that for some reason, like cockroach milk for example. So, the general definition of milk is essentially "Baby growing juice."
There’s also a type of fish that does similar.
if i remember right, flamingos and maybe some penguins do the same thing
Flame retardants migrating out to the arctic is really good news. It should help reduce the number of ice cap wildfires.
Ba dum tshss!
🥁
“Your May have already guessed where we’re headed…”
Me: No. no. No. Don’t say it…. Nooooooooo!!!!!!
Papa Roach: "I've got nipples, can you milk me?"
Plenty of other roaches are livebearing, like Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches.
I love compilation episodes where I get to see Hank and the other hosts as practically babies.
My body wouldn't produce lactase during my childhood. I developed a gastric blockage and almost did die. It was 1986 so lactose-free formula wasn't much of an option at the time and the UK NHS had to import it from abroad (Norway or Sweden says something in my brain. Obviously, I was there but I wasn't quite at the remembering things stage.) and I had to have a procedure to clear the blockage using fibre-optic cameras.
what did NHS have to import from Norway or Sweden? How old where you when your or your medical providers became aware of your inability to produce lactose? couldn't you just stop drinking milk, even as a child?
@@manp1039 Do you generally struggle with reading comprehension, sir?
As a man, I do not produce lactose. I don't produce a lot of LACTASE now but I didn't produce any when I was born. My post states what had to be imported just before import was mentioned.
How you seem to have skipped the new-born, milk only diet, I'm not sure but it comes right before the walking and speaking bit.
@@FunkBallGX with your writing, yes, i did not understand what you were writing. And i was asking for clarification. For example your wrote "Norway or Sweden says something in my brain" Really? what did Norway or Sweden say to your brain? that form of writing does not make any sense. It is jibberish to me.
I was born pretty severely lactose intolerant and I'm still suffering everyday bc I do love me some yogurt
you can buy lactase tablets that you take when you eat dairy that will help with that. lact-aid I think is one brand? anyways...
@@telegramsam Oh yea, I've got a whole box of an off brand of them in my kitchen but uh I'm a forgetful idiot so I very rarely remember to take them
My father's side of the family is lactose intolerant, while my mother's side is not, so I didn't become lactose intolerant until my late teens. I'm fine with fermented dairy products, like yogurt, cheese, buttermilk, kefir, and certain types of ice cream. My brother however can't touch those things without a lactase pill.
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 Neither of my parents are lactose intolerant which honestly Rude of Them I think /j
There are lots of good vegan brands of yogurt now that you could have! Forager is my favorite, and So Delicious is also good. They’re made the same way as yogurt from cow milk and have the same healthy active cultures!
Here's to milking platypus for some exotic ice cream lol 😂
Steinbeck would have a issue with you saying adult humans don’t drink human milk.
I got that reference.
He said most people dont
What a weird god damn moment
So would some of the dark corners of the Internet.
Steinbeck's such a baby.
Wish they'd add timestamps in the description for sections so I can skip the ones I've already seen multiple times before....... Or to go back easily & rewatch a section when I share with a loved one =] (I realize there are links in the description for the originals which I do appreciate)
"We can always drink that milk that's _made from insects_ instead."
*NO, we can't!*
Yeah, after breast feeding my son for a very healthy length of time, I have developed an aversion to the lactate of other animals. OTOH, I ❤ plant "milk"!
"Cows are big pretty, and nice."
*laughs in Jersey Bull*
I really want to know how that guy got Polar Bear milk...
Dart Polar Bear, wait for Polar Bear to go to sleepy land. Milk Polar Bear Bear. RUN!!!
skype with some researcher in a pole maybe?
who probably happened to have no remorse about shooting sleeping darts at a pregnant polar bear and stealing its milk.
from a zoo/any captive polar bear
@@genesises i assume the diet of a wild bear would be different than a captive bear and make it taste different?
Personally I like to believe they dressed up in one of those two person animal costumes as a baby polar bear
What is more disgusting than drinking the secretions of modified sweat glands?
Roach milk!
I'll have the soy milk, please.
Enjoy the estrogen that comes with it ^^
I love my oat milk. Yay to plant based milk! ^___^
@@danielhristov6175 Right! Some people demonize soy milk for supposed estrogens, when dairy milk has actual mammalian estrogens! I could give a link to a study that showed that vegans have higher rates of testosterone than meat eaters!
I could of gone my whole life without knowing about roach milk, gross! lol
Could *have
A major nightmare of my twilight years is the thought that roaches will outlast my species.
People often react to cockroaches with disgust since they're considered a pest, but roaches are an ecologically necessary and beneficial insect, as they're important decomposers. They're also unusually clean, given their typical habitats, and roaches could be raised as food livestock to replace more environmentally costly animals. You just don't want them entering your house uninvited.
i developed lactose intolerance at age 22, but only for about a week before i could digest it again just fine. no idea what happened but i love milk so i won't argue
are you saying that you were lactose intolerant for only a week duration at the age of 22 and than after that week passed you had no trouble with lactose?
I love this channel because they can deliver information about a somewhat gross topic in a not-too-gross way for me to consume said gross stuff while watching and learning 😁
Milking seals for cheese sounds interesting, 60% fat!
If you like cheese that tastes of fish (cod liver oil?).
@@kellydalstok8900 I'm from Wisconsin...there's someone out there that will like a cheese with ANY imaginable additional subtle flavor...slightly fishy doesn't even seem that weird to me.
@@rydaddy2867 agreed
I can put it on my pizza when I'm out of anchovies.
Loved the compilation of different clips!
Plot twist: The scientist drank polar bear semen by accident instead.
Cathelicidin: *pokes bacteria's walls many times*
Bacteria: Hey, stop!
Cathelicidin: *still pokes bacteria's walls*
Bacteria: You're annoying, you know that!?!
Cathelicidin: *stops poking walls of bacteria*
Cathelicidin: *pokes bacteria's walls until it dies*
Cathelicidin: *goes out to do that again to another bacteria*
4:21 Hippopotamuses don't produce pink milk. But you can get pink milk from a flamingo (no joke). 😄
It's not milk. It's milk like substance.
@@krimativity8526 Crop milk. Close enough! 😉
When he said Water buffalo milk may ot be that good for drinking, while here I have drank water buffalo all my life and it's pretty common in my country to consume Water buffalo milk as an alternative to cow milk!
This was a really interesting subject. Thank you for the show.
Know 'Hbomberguy'?
i've been lactose intolerant since i turned 30, and since then i've learned a lot about the degrees of lactose in dairy products. when i first noticed the change, it was from me eating ice cream, as i didn't drink milk much after high school.
and there's been more changes in my lactose intolerant journey since. i'm almost 50, and i can eat ice cream again! i never had any reactions to cheeses or yogurt, thank goodness- but i cannot drink cows milk with my cereal. for that, i'm all about almondmilk.❤
When i went to college i went from drinking milk daily to barely at all since the brand on campus tasted awful. I noticed my lactose tolerance dropped to only tolerate cheese and so when i graduated i had to ween myself back up to normal tolerances.
I suspect that your microbiome (gut bacteria) are a major contributor to lactose tolerance so when people stop drinking milk regularly they become lactose intolerant.
Just a theory based on personal experience.
Have you tried grass fed and or raw milk? You might find it tolerable. I remember reading that raw milk contains enzymes that are inactivated by the heat of pasturization so the pasteurized milk is less digestible.
@@metamorphicorder Raw milk is a very dangerous game. While milk straight from the balk tank is considered the best tasting, due in part to fat content making it creamy. It also is extremely easy for manure (poop) to contaminate it as cows lay down in crap all the time and are generally unsanitary. Additionally if the cow is sick (extra common in large farms) that could infect the milk as well, along with the fact litterally everything is always covered in germs.
I would never try to drink raw milk if you aren't a farmer drinking your own milk for your entire life as bacteria growth increases exponentially and the risk of food poisoning would be high. (I would wager worse than raw eggs)
Also i feel like raw milk would be the most irritating of all dairy products on a lactose intolerant GI tract.
Source: i live next to a dairy farm and my dad was raised on one, both small family farms.
@@jasonreed7522 yeah.... except... like all of history before the pasturization of milk became a thing. Yes, there are risks. Yes it can be dangerous.
I lived six months with a family when i was a kid who got all their milk unhomogenized and raw from a local small dairy. It was amazing milk and we never got sick. Yes some people do. And its all about the handling and the milking process.
I guess everyone has to assess their own risk tolerance.
Ben and Jerry’s makes an amaaaaazing vegan ice cream you might be interested in trying!
Milk made from insects:
Biologically speaking that means drinking milk from an insectivore😜
Like an anteater for example
Clarification: an insectivore mammal.
Wrong, but witty.
@@TheJamesRedwood yeah maybe i should add that mammal.part
Plus its just a joke. 🤷
What psychotic trip was the first scientist on when they looked at that horrid bug which is mistake of the universe and said "I can milk you."
They are pretty remarkable, actually. One of the masterpieces of evolution.
Hank, I'll never forget that scene at the end of the Grapes of Wrath. Regarding 1:45
Idk why milk stuff keeps showing up in my youtube feed. I'm allergic- in 3 different ways! Ironically I *do* produce lactase, it's a cruel world.
That is a tragedy, milk and dairy products are delicious, and get a mostly undeserved bad rap.
@@jasonreed7522 milk is disgusting, but I will die for a slice of cheese
How tolerant of you!
@@OtakuUnitedStudio I used to think I was lactose intolerant so I took lactase pills for pizza but lol nope
@@sarcasm-aplenty lol, just enjoy your pizza my dude. What else can you do 😂🤷
How to describe cows correctly : big and pretty nice
People mention antibiotics and completely forget about bacteriophages. The more resistant a bacteria is to antibiotics the easier it is to kill with bacteriophages and vice versa. Also, I will never intentionally consume something I know was sourced primarily from insects aside from honey.
What's that??
@@andromaxbse6459 Viruses.
@@andromaxbse6459 viruses that infect bacteria
Always interesting, thank you.
I will not drink the roach milk. I will not eat the bugs.
I mean, at least in the US, if you eat grains of any kind, you are eating roughly 1% bug, just 'cuz it's so hard to get bugs out of crops when you're producing millions of grain products
I have a hypotheses, what if we put the roaches in a room with lots of oxygen and genitcly modify them to be huge. That way they will make more milk and it can be commercialized.
Muties and roach… Is this my dream Fallout crossover episode?!
It feels weird about the new opening and thumbnail since I've watched this show since a year after your site started. But hey change is good! Thanks for the content.
I’m surprised that the term factory farming didn’t come up in this video and the horrendous lives we force cows to live, including separating the babies from their mothers so that we can take the milk. We force the cows to be pregnant for their short lives until their milk production slows and then they are slaughtered for meat. Dairy is cruel-nothing humane about it!
or they could fight for every bite of food and tiny bit of safety only to be killed and eaten alive by other animals. See, that's how life works. We need food, get over yourself wuss.
@@russellkaye9289 at least they won't be depressed all there lives living in the wild. Cattle/piglets need to play with each other to grow connection and learn things in live otherwise they get depressed. That's how life works. The way we treat those animals is unethical. Hopefully science will find a way to end this horror.
@@ThizzoJitsu no, depression is brought by the human condition, and beef is delicious. If we weren't supposed to eat animals, why do they taste so good?
@@russellkaye9289 that's simply not true, studies show otherwise. I'm not saying beef isn't delicious and we shouldn't eat them. But It's the way we're dealing with other species in this agriculture.
@@ThizzoJitsu when we can treat humans all of them with dignity, I will worry about a cow's feelings. Hunger is an issue first.
Shame that no information was dropped on the dairy industry and what impact it has on the world
Shame that they are still planting water wasting almond trees in drought stricken California.
@@amarketing8749 Shame that people still think that plants high in waterneeds are worse then animal agriculture. (That being said, there shouldn't be water wasting agriculture either)
Not relevant to the topic, though definitely agree that it is a huge problem. This was a video about the chemical relationship between humans and milk. I agree they should do a video on that subject. Another point is, they deal only in facts, not opinion, so in all likelihood, if they did do a video on the facts about dairy farming in relation to the environment, it would not go as far as to pronounce on ethical considerations. Crash Course philosophy would have something on that.
The milk lobby has changed how they report fat. Whole Milk it is NOT 3.5%...that is by weight, not calories (milk is the ONLY food fat measured by weight - because of the milk lobby). 1 cup of whole milk has 149 calories, 72 from fat (8 grams of fat x 9 calories per gram). 72/149 = 48% FAT
Cows milk with milk fat as low as 3.5% is a recent phenomenon due to the dominance of Holstein Friesians which are bred for milk volume at the expense of fat. I'm old enough to remember whole milk having 4% butterfat and my Jersey produces milk with 5% butterfat
6:59 Gotta love the subtitles.
Huh. Milk, fur/hair, and... three middle-ear bones? Nifty! I was always taught that the third thing was being warm-blooded, but I suppose that since that isn't *exclusive* to mammals (birds, for example, also being endothermic, along with some fish!), it isn't a defining feature anymore? But then, some insects (like some moths, and bees) have fur too; is it a different enough type of a structure with them (based perhaps on chitin rather than keratin?) that it only *looks* like hair, but is actually distinct from mammalian hair?
And what about milk? Because if cockroaches produce something like it... //shudders//
--Ah, wait, no; that'd be why it's *mammary glands,* not "produces milk". --Wait, I forgot about the live birth! Milk, hair, live birth, warm-blooded... and three middle-ear bones, I guess!
Bees and moths don't have fur these are simular structures
Platypuses don't give live birth and are mammals.
My parents are mutants, but they didn’t have the decency to pass their freakish mutation to me😑
This guy reminds me of an adult wild Kratts or blues clues. Keeps me entertained during studying or just being bored throughtout my day.
Hank, you (well, your image on my phone anyway) are literally right next to a bowl of Cocoa Puffs with milk on my breakfast table right now.
We also drink goats milk and sheeps milk and use them for cheeses.
That was in the video
Given that creating Plant Based milks involves, science, I was a little disappointed that process, and nutritional comparisons, weren't discussed. But hey, there's you an idea for a future video, including explaining the various scientific reasons why it would be better for humans and the environment.
They probably omitted things like soy milk and almond milk because they aren't milk.
@@-yeme- Yes, thanks for the pedantic Omni critique; that would never have crossed my poor Vegan mind. 🙄 Plant milks are used dietarily as dairy milk analogues, just as Vegan cheezes are used as dairy cheese analogues, and faux meats are animal meat analogues. It would be useful to many people to see comparisons being made. Nobody's shitting in your choices by asking for information about things to do with animal welfare and environmental protection, so how about not trolling when someone asks a legitimate scientific question that doesn't involve you? Thanks.
@@injunsun There's no need to be so upset. If they'd spent a significant portion of the video talking about your pet subject, they would have been less able to cover to actual topic of the video, not to mention the even more obvious practical consideration of this being a compilation of older video segments, necessarily limiting the content to what they already have in their archive.
By the way, its a bit silly to speak of "a question that doesn't involve you" when you've posted in the public comment section of CZcams.
@Bitterkind So you would expect sausages in buns to be covered in a video about canine science? Fancy mushrooms lumped in with the biology of molluscs? Congratulations on the most preposterous thing Ive heard for weeks, with no exaggeration.
Also, whining about "trolling" in response to any kind of disagreement is the behaviour of a child. I was, granted, stating the obvious, and perhaps in a very slightly pointed manner if you happen to be of an especially sensitive and delicate disposition, but I was only doing so because the obvious appeared to have gone unnoticed by some.
@@-yeme- I think their point was that your pedantry about soy and almond milk not being milk is confused, not that hot dogs should actually be made out of dogs. The point is that we all already accept this kind of change in language. I bet you call it peanut butter and don't whine and moan about how "it's not really butter". Or maybe you do.
Glad to be part of the %30
Very interesting! That last bit though, grossly interesting. Uggh!
Even almonds give milk.
They’re pressed and watered down significantly. It’s like if you mixed a spoon of nut butter into a glass of water.
Is almond milk considered nut juice
@@mr.lahgcomics5712 yes
So, finally a way to kill the cockroaches!!! But then who will inherit the earth after the apocalypse??!?!? Hmm.
There is a 'disgust' mechanism that works to protect us. Like a gag reflex,
disgust can warn us of infection, disease, that may not be immediately apparent.
As the program says, we do not normally continue to drink breastmilk beyond our childhood.
Yeasts can now be genetically engineered to produce casein and other milk proteins. The yeasts live on sugar. This bypasses the need for cows as the yeasts work continuously .. if you are allergic to milk, you will be allergic to these milk proteins also.
I bet human milk would have a market, a super expensive market with great Christmas calendars
I would like to pose a question: If 70% of the world’s population cannot digest milk after childhood, what percentage of the world’s population were not able to digest milk since birth?
Depends on the type of milk you're talking about.
i think the thesis is that nearly 100 percent of humans can digest human milk until they are weened which is approximately the time the first teeth in the human baby start to erupt from gums.
Nice! A new camera and intro is great.
I’ve always been curious why if I don’t have milk I feel hungry no matter what else or how much I eat!
Habit, protein content of the meal, calories of the meal.
@@fmlAllthetime everyone else in my family has become lactose intolerant but me. I’m the only mutant in my family 🤪
We like horse milk too; ask Batzorig.
Day 5 of asking for the return of Scishow Quizshow
I have always wondered about our consumption of cow's milk. Is it not laced with growth hormones and all the other things you need to make a baby cow into a not-baby cow... Does that not have a weird effect on humans after years of regular consumption?
If I'm not mistaken RBST isn't used all that often if at all in consumer milk in the US due to massive consumer outrage, boycott and concern due to what you mention. Please double check this though
@@fmlAllthetime I wasn't meaning added growth hormones or extras fed to the cows. I was talking about the naturally occurring chemical profile of the milk that has evolved to support the growth of a calf.
@@dan240393 Ah. Interesting thought
old intro matched the music much better
I am part of the 60% of Italians that cannot drink all the milk they want. Unless they enjoy sitting in the bathroom for a while
Sometimes you just have to milk life for all it's worth
As someone with a family history of Cancer I stooped having dairy due to the high concentrations of estrogen and progesterone in it.
Same here (in this case breast cancer), and it also gives me horrible acne.
in German there is a saying "Es ist zum Mäusemelken" means, a situation feels like milking mice, means something is utterly complicatetd and frustrating. 🙂