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| Jun 6, 2018 at 7:18 | comment | added | Mołot | @can-need_food still, good for baby mammals. Many (most?) adults can't process lactose, and even for the ones that can, proportions are no longer correct. But better than eggs, sure. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 6:29 | comment | added | can-ned_food | Late comment: milk is also a foodstuff produced especially for mammals. It would tend to have better nutritional proportions for other mammals than avian eggs would for mammals — though, of course, different species' milks differ: compare the contents of bovine, feline, and human milk. | |
| May 17, 2017 at 6:49 | comment | added | Peteris | @kingledion there's a big difference between living on something, and living for a season on something. For example, you can't live without vitamin C , but you can live for multiple months on such a diet before scurvy gets you. | |
| May 17, 2017 at 5:45 | comment | added | William C. | To be fair so long as you have enough calories you can still live for a while. The first to be affected by vitamin and mineral deficiencies would be the young and infirm. It takes a while for most deficiencies to build up to a critical mass so as long there is at the possibility of getting around 50% or your RDA you should be fine. Not great, but fine. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | user | The question was rolled back to the original revision, so I rolled back your answer as well. | |
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| May 16, 2017 at 13:18 | history | edited | Mołot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 16, 2017 at 13:10 | comment | added | Mołot | @kingledion pemmican is a mix of fat, meat and fruit so yes, this can be made with proportions needed. And no, nomads did not survive on milk alone. They supplemented it, too. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 13:05 | comment | added | kingledion | You are taking an unfortunately narrow view of the topic. Asian nomads managed to live on mare's milk all summer; Plains Indians survived the winter on pemmican. I'm sure there will be other roots and vegetables in the diet; plus they will eat the ostriches too. | |
| May 16, 2017 at 12:44 | history | answered | Mołot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |