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JohnDe said:
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The article says the ethnic groups mentioned have a 70 to 95% CHANCE of being Lactose intolerant, its not that 70% of people with African heritage are lactose intolerant. The ethnoic groupsof Easr Africa have no issue. Massai people of Kenya and Tanzania have a diet consistting almost entirely of Meat, milk and blood, which comes from their cattle herds.

Mick
 
mullokintyre said:
The article says the ethnic groups mentioned have a 70 to 95% CHANCE of being Lactose intolerant, its not that 70% of people with African heritage are lactose intolerant. The ethnoic groupsof Easr Africa have no issue. Massai people of Kenya and Tanzania have a diet consistting almost entirely of Meat, milk and blood, which comes from their cattle herds.

Mick
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OK, though I never mentioned what you just posted "70% of people with African heritage are lactose intolerant".

I did say that not everyone can drink milk, and that some people from different countries are lactose intolerant. Also, there are medical cases of people having difficulty digesting milk.
 
mullokintyre said:
The article says the ethnic groups mentioned have a 70 to 95% CHANCE of being Lactose intolerant, its not that 70% of people with African heritage are lactose intolerant. The ethnoic groupsof Easr Africa have no issue. Massai people of Kenya and Tanzania have a diet consistting almost entirely of Meat, milk and blood, which comes from their cattle herds.

Mick
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This is true (trivia: Mrs wayneL comes from Massai country)... There's a bit of urine in the mix there on occasions too ?
 
JohnDe said:
OK, though I never mentioned what you just posted "70% of people with African heritage are lactose intolerant".

I did say that not everyone can drink milk, and that some people from different countries are lactose intolerant. Also, there are medical cases of people having difficulty digesting milk.
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Our eldest son hasn't been able to tolerate cows/goat milk since birth. Only what came naturally. 48 years on still has grape juice on his cereal. Definitely not of African descendants.
 
farmerge said:
Our eldest son hasn't been able to tolerate cows/goat milk since birth. Only what came naturally. 48 years on still has grape juice on his cereal. Definitely not of African descendants.
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It’s actually normal for most Mammals including humans to have trouble digesting Lactose, the ability to digest Lactose disappears in most mammals once they wean from their mothers milk.

However some humans have developed a genetic mutation that allows them to keep the ability into adulthood, but your son is obviously normal and not a mutant ?
 
Value Collector said:
It’s actually normal for most Mammals including humans to have trouble digesting Lactose, the ability to digest Lactose disappears in most mammals once they wean from their mothers milk.

However some humans have developed a genetic mutation that allows them to keep the ability into adulthood, but your son is obviously normal and not a mutant ?
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Yeah, he's definitely not a mutant, 6'4''and 120kg and going strong in the Pilbara.
 
wayneL said:
I just wanna know why the egg shelves are always empty.
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I haven’t seen that problem on my side of Australia, not in the city shops or the small country town that I’m currently in.

According to reports from a relative in the USA, she is currently seeing an egg shortage. She lives in Massachusetts.
 
Our local supermarkets (Syd) carry a sign saying egg supply is leading to shortages, and sales will be limited to 2 cartons, or 2 dozen, maximum. But then checkouts are automated... do they alter the scanners to disallow?
Shelves are sparse but not empty.
 
I heard (second hand) there is a bout of Avian flu which is decimating the flocks. That would explain it.
 
wayneL said:
I heard (second hand) there is a bout of Avian flu which is decimating the flocks. That would explain it.
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Or long term contracts for farmers who are now buying much more expensive food ..oh and maybe the drought we have in SE Qld this year...so that's a fair chunk of production affected I would guess
No one mention that drought, I guess because a cyclone could end it in a week but 25mm rain in the whole of january, and hardly any since in qld coastal green belt is not going to help vegies prices.
Dam etc are still full or not empty but that does not look good for this whole year agricultural vegies products with no rain during our rain season .
Inland is ok so beef will remain great,more thinking fruits and veggies
 
farmerge said:
Perhaps the chooks have gone off the lay because it's winter and cold over their.!!!!
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And that you counter this with artificial lighting and heating which is costing heaps more and may not be economically viable anymore so you let the chooks sleep more and let them stay cooler?
I do not think we have avian flu here..but might just be unaware
 
qldfrog said:
And that you counter this with artificial lighting and heating which is costing heaps more and may not be economically viable anymore so you let the chooks sleep more and let them stay cooler?
I do not think we have avian flu here..but might just be unaware
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Egg farms 8 hours on and off consistently. Hens are usually burnt out as battery hens after about 3 years. When we had our own poultry I used to buy burnt out battery hens, and after about 4 months were consistent layers for many years. Give them a normal day and night and during the laying season would average 5 eggs a chook per week.
We kept a couple of local pubs in eggs for many years. It was the responsibility of the two ankle biters to feed, water and collect the cackleberries after school each day, for which they got half of the proceeds from the pubs.
 
People of first world countries have no idea what ‘food scarcity’ is.

I grew up in a time when food was seasonal. Winter vegetables only came out during the cooler months, spring vegetables in the warmer months. Eggs were more abundant at a certain point of the year, like some meats and fish.

Now we have any vegetable, meat, cheeses and preserves at any time we want it.

To see people and media complain about an egg shortage is laughable.
 
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