This seems absurd on its face. Human nutrition can be fulfilled with a few basic staples and many countries produce huge quantities of these, or could do so rapidly given their industrial base.
Just with B12 vitamins, legumes, and vegetables a population could survive just fine and vegans do this on a regular basis. Dairy is not necessary for human nutrition, it just was (and sometimes still is) a valuable way to get nutrition in food-scarce conditions, with cows turning grass into milk. With industrialized agriculturalism it is much more efficient to just eat the plants. The conditions in which dairy is still helpful is when malnutrition conditions are imposed by capital.
This seems absurd on its face. Human nutrition can be fulfilled with a few basic staples and many countries produce huge quantities of these, or could do so rapidly given their industrial base.
Just with B12 vitamins, legumes, and vegetables a population could survive just fine and vegans do this on a regular basis. Dairy is not necessary for human nutrition, it just was (and sometimes still is) a valuable way to get nutrition in food-scarce conditions, with cows turning grass into milk. With industrialized agriculturalism it is much more efficient to just eat the plants. The conditions in which dairy is still helpful is when malnutrition conditions are imposed by capital.