Is this carton racist or not?

[MacVittie]

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PETA says so. (http://www.animalrights.net/articles/1998/is-milk-racist/)

[instrument]

Whys the carton gotta be white!

[HyeLife]

11 year old news story, FTW

Source:

“Animal-rights group PETA attacks milk as ‘liquid meat’” - Amy Rinard,
Scripps Howard, July 23, 1998.

[HamandEgger]

Milk, not a problem, but this is racist!

http://bassriot.com/blog/mycontent/freshnessguaranteed001/Wonder_Bread_Open.jpg

[GreatAmericanZero]

most racist food is jelly beans cuz the black ones suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[underdog]

Yes.

[Death Metal Moe]

http://rensoul.com/images/artist_blackmilk-reald.jpg

[Coach_Mac]

I've always had a problem with
http://www.motheringheights.net/storage/saltine.jpeg

[Boogie in Va]

What's wrong wit da milk we got??

[TripleSkeet]

Its shananigans like this that cause people to not take PETA seriously.

Well, this and the fact that meat tastes like heaven. Milk? Liquid heaven.

[boosterp]

Despite this story being horribly old and not news worthy I did find this bit of logic difficult to follow: Some members of minority groups
are to one degree or another lactose intolerant — most mildly so. Therefore
choosing milk as a state beverage is racist or as Pacheco put it, “a
white choice in more ways than one.”

[Thebazile78]

Despite this story being horribly old and not news worthy I did find this bit of logic difficult to follow:

I assume that it's alluding to the instances of lactose intolerance in people of Asian and African descent being higher than those in the Caucasian/White population:

# 90% of Asian American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 70% of African-American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 74% of Native American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 53% of Mexican-American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 15% Caucasian adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)

(Statistics copied from WrongDiagnosis.com (http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/l/lactose_intolerance/stats.htm))

[WampusCrandle]

PETA is so infuriating! now i want to kill animals, nay, NEED to kill some animals.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2852662944_29e5398a30.jpg?v=0

[boosterp]

I assume that it's alluding to the instances of lactose intolerance in people of Asian and African descent being higher than those in the Caucasian/White population:

# 90% of Asian American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 70% of African-American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 74% of Native American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 53% of Mexican-American adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)
# 15% Caucasian adults have lactose intolerance (NIDDK 1994)

(Statistics copied from WrongDiagnosis.com (http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/l/lactose_intolerance/stats.htm))

Yes, but the problem with those statistics would be that the majority of those that are lactose intolerant have a minor form that is usually asymptomatic. If I remember correctly we have an enzyme in our small intestine that breaks lactose down to glucose an galactose (sp?). Galactose (still to lazy to grab one of my books) is a protein which some people have a difficult time processing causing the disturbing effects of lactose intolerance.

[Thebazile78]

Yes, but the problem with those statistics would be that the majority of those that are lactose intolerant have a minor form that is usually asymptomatic. If I remember correctly we have an enzyme in our small intestine that breaks lactose down to glucose an galactose (sp?). Galactose (still to lazy to grab one of my books) is a protein which some people have a difficult time processing causing the disturbing effects of lactose intolerance.

I'm not arguing with you, there.

Statistics can be used to say pretty much whatever you want them to say. PETA is obviously using the stats I Googled to "say" that a state declaring milk to be its "official state beverage" is racist due to the higher numbers of non-Caucasian adults who are statistically lactose-intolerant.

[styckx]

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