Is milk the same? Detailed answer

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Is milk the same?

People have been drinking milk in food since ancient times. Nowadays, milk is obtained from different animals. In Britain and most English-speaking countries, milk is taken from a cow. In Spain they use sheep's milk. In the Arabian deserts, milk is taken from camels. In Egypt, the buffalo gives milk. In Peru, the dairy animal is the llama. In Tibet, people get their milk from the yak. And in many countries, milk is given to people by a goat.

Is it the same milk? No. Each animal produces milk intended for its offspring. The cow's milk is for the calf, not for the human baby. Since a calf is a coarser creature than a child, cow's milk is coarser than breast milk. But cow's milk is quite similar to human milk, so a baby can drink it and grow strong and healthy.

Cow's milk has less sugar, more salt, and four times more casein, an important protein, than human milk. Although milk differs depending on the type of animal, in any case it contains fat, protein, carbohydrate and minerals. It doesn't matter whose milk people consume - with it they receive vital substances.

To find out how the milk of different animals differs, let's compare the milk of a cow and a reindeer. Cow's milk contains about 87% water, deer's only about 68%. Cow's milk has about 4% fat content, deer's milk has about 17%. Reindeer milk contains half as much sugar, three times as much casein, and about five times as much other proteins. You see now how much reindeer milk differs from cow milk, but the people of Lapland like it very much.

Even cow's milk can be different, depending on the feeding, the health of the cow herself and the time between milkings. The last milk at milking is fatter, so the same cow gives fat milk when milked well and less fat when milked poorly.

Author: Likum A.

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In 1931, an uprising of the Turkic-Muslim population broke out in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. Russian emigrants were mobilized into government troops - both the White Guards, who had lived in Xinjiang since the time of the Civil War in Russia, and those who fled from hunger and collectivization in the USSR. Two years later, the governor-general of the province, Sheng Shicai, managed to negotiate with the Soviet Union for help in suppressing the uprising. The 13th Alma-Ata and 10th Tashkent regiments of the OGPU were transferred to China, the soldiers of which were dressed in White Guard uniforms. In addition, the USSR directly financed units that were already fighting, made up of Russian emigrants. Thus, the "reds" and "whites" participated in this conflict on the same side.

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