“Got Milk?” Commercials’ Departure From Thought-Provoking to Disparaging

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Carlos Garbiras
The Collector

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It’s been a while since I drank milk on its own. I don’t have anything against it. I’ve just never soiled my pants, and I’d like to keep my record that way. That’s, of course, until I am 90. If I get to be that old, I’m just going to let loose on both fronts — I guess one of them is an end.

Who even tried milk in the first place?

I guess that’s how food is discovered, humans putting things in their mouths, checking if their object of oral exploration would actually kill them or if it tastes good. Maybe they looked at the babies of those species and thought, “If it’s good for the calf, it’s good for me.”

That, in a nutshell, is how bullfighting was created. Men molested cows, and the bulls wanted to kill them. The tight tights were meant as an incentive to split really fast, and the ridiculous hat was just ornamental because if you are going to die, you might as well look stupid.

However it was discovered, it is now a source of eternal heated debate.

Is it healthy or not? Should it be replaced? Is milking a cow a form of cross-species exploitation? Or, along with…

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Carlos Garbiras
The Collector

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