Quora精選：為什么我們不喝豬奶？

Why don’t people consume pigs’ milk?為什么人們不喝豬奶？

 

獲得13.2k的好評回答@Pippi M. R. Groving：

Because traditionally you can't milk pigs.因?yàn)閺牧?xí)慣上說，你沒有辦法給豬擠奶。They are one of the animals where the sucking motion and the vacuuming of the mouth needs to happen at once. So 100 years ago you would only get milk out of a sow if you actually sucked her teats.豬是通過吮吸和吞咽（獲得食物）和其他（哺乳）動物一樣。數(shù)百年前，只要你吮吸母豬的奶頭，你就能喝到奶。And this is only if you could get that close to the sow. Pigs are not nice and docile. They have a mean streak, know what they want and when having just produce piglets and in mom-mode they can be very aggresive.前提是你要能靠近母豬。豬并不是友好溫順的動物，它們本性吝嗇，知道自己要什么，當(dāng)它們生了小豬，變成豬媽媽以后，就會變得很有攻擊性。Nowadays we could probably build machines that could milk pigs… But we have no tradition of using pig milk and cows produce more milk and much easier. So why start doing something that would be bothersome and of little use?現(xiàn)在我們可以搞個機(jī)器來吸豬奶，但是之前我們沒有喝豬奶的傳統(tǒng)，而且相比較而言，?？梢援a(chǎn)跟多的奶，而且更加容易，所以何必大費(fèi)周章，自討苦吃呢？

 

獲得297的好評回答@Richard Hobson：

This paragraph from a BBC blog cannot be beaten as a clear and concise explanation..in short, they are VERY hard to milk…!以下這段摘自BBC的博客，我要說的更加直截了當(dāng)，簡而言之就是，要擠豬奶是難上加難！Although pigs’ milk is high in fat (around 8.5% compared to cows milk at 3.9%) and is an excellent source of nutrients, sows are very difficult to milk. 盡管豬奶的脂肪含量很高（差不多在8.5%高于牛奶3.9%脂含量），而且豬奶的營養(yǎng)豐富，但是豬奶很難擠。They have around 14 teats compared to a cow’s four, and they don’t take very kindly to having them touched by humans. They also get very agitated if you try to restrain them. 比起牛的四個奶頭，豬有14個奶頭，但你要去伸手觸碰，他們會極其不配合。Pigs also have a limited milk ejection time of around 15 seconds, whereas a cow’s can be up to 10 minutes. 如果你想要控制它們，會招致它們的憤怒。All in all, it’s a pig-shed load of trouble to milk a porker.此外，與牛出奶10分鐘相比較，豬只有短短15秒。總之，想要擠豬奶，等著你的就是麻煩一籮筐。Personally.. I would imagine that no one would really want to try that hard..pigs are low to the ground, and in non-wild conditions are notably smelly and muddy!就我個人而言，我想應(yīng)該沒有人真的要去嘗試擠豬奶。。況且豬就貼著地面生活，圈養(yǎng)的環(huán)境讓它們總是臭氣熏天、滿身泥污！

 

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