Richard wrote
Joey wrote
Andrew wrote
Spike wrote
T i m wrote
newshound wrote
T i m wrote

However, what we are doing then is comparing
the taste of something we are used to, something
we shouldn't have been consuming in the first place
('cows milk' was meant for 'cows', not humans

But humans have *evolved* to be able
to consume it (at least, a lot can).

More than 60+% of the population can't

Claptrap. Unadulterated claptrap.

If humans hadn't been able to process lactose,
humans would not have succeeded as a species.

It was the ability to devise ways to turn cows milk into a form
that could be stored for consumption during the winter months
(plus other plant-based stuff) that allowed the humans who
migrated north to survive the winter. Ditto using animal hides
and fleeces to keep warm and dry. A useful side effect of this
was better development, leading ultimately to the industrial
revolution.

Meanwhile in Africa and pacific countries, all they needed
to do was catch fish, collect breadfruit and taro to survive.
No impetus to devise a way to survive a food shortage
because they never had one.

They always did with droughts and still do.

Nature's way of population control,

Nope, nothing to do with nature, its just how it is.

which has been overturned by us.

Yes., cant imagine why for the life of me.

That, in turn, has led to the current unsustainable situation.

Its very far from clear that it actually is unsustainable now
that the world population is self limiting for other reasons.