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[Whiskey_Ninja]

Listen, I respect the right all of you have to argue about milk, and digestibility, but I only have one contribution; a plea:

Toady, whatever you do, please let us keep milking Purring Maggots if you change the code at all.

That would be very nice.

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(purring maggot)

[schm0]

I don't want him to delete, only *add*.

Purring maggots + cows + goats + camels = multiple milk sources.

[Keilden]

Dwarf Milk Bars For All!!

[Koji]

We should be able to shave llamas for their hair. Llama hair makes really good fabric.

There's an episode of Dirty Jobs where they go over the whole process. Then they shave the camera man.  :confused:

[SquashMonster]

True, milk is not bad for you if you can digest it.  However, being able to digest milk as an adult is due to a genetic mutation that is largely only present in northern Europeans.  Dwarves, being non-human, are not going to have a human mutation.

On the other hand, goat's milk is not as bad, due to lower lactose content, and Kumis is fantastic, due to lactose being turned into alcohol, which replaces a poison with a vital part of dwarf nutrition*.  I think you should be able to milk cows, goats, and horses.  You can drink goat milk, ferment horse milk, or add sugar to cow milk and ferment that.

* Presumably, the lower air-content of mines has lead to dwarves farther developing anaerobic respiration, so their bodies naturally produce alcohol.  This adaptation naturally leads to another one: a much more robust liver, which coincidentally means consuming alcohol from other sources has less adverse consequences.  Thus dwarves can safely get the nutritional benefits of alcohol, and, more importantly, don't need to drink water.  Water, of course, is very bad for men and dwarves alike without proper treatment.

[Keilden]

quote:Originally posted by Koji:
<STRONG>We should be able to shave llamas for their hair. Llama hair makes really good fabric.

There's an episode of Dirty Jobs where they go over the whole process. Then they shave the camera man.   Iit was lol

[JT]

Mare's milk is supposedly very sweet.  I haven't tried it myself, though.

Human milk, I've heard, is also quite sweet, almost like honeydew.  Again, I haven't tried it myself -- or at least, not within the years I can remember (I'd be even more messed up than I already am if I could remember those years).