Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found conclusive evidence for the first time that humans have been making cheese since the 6th millennium BC."

Comments

Re:Cheese is spoiled milk

[Anonymous Coward]

Fermentation is not the same thing as spoiling.

Re:To eat cheese is to be human.

[AK Marc]

All the lactose intolerant people I know can eat hard cheeses because the levels or lacose are reduced by the fermentation process. This doesn't apply to softer cheeses (especially mozzarella), so pizza is out, but swiss on a subway sandwich is fine..

Re:To eat cheese is to be human.

[Too Much Noise]

Lactose intolerant people can digest cheese just fine (for the most part). Milk lactose is largely drained with the liquid in the process of curdling, so cheese has little lactose left. That's likely why people used cheese before having developed lactose tolerance - because they discovered it was safe to digest.