I wonder how many people would stop drinking milk if they knew it contained white blood cells from the cow. There’s also cells from the lining of the udder. Pasteurization kills it but… it’s still there.
I doubt anyone would care. People are just used to whatever is normalised on a cultural level. They often eat the inner linings from animals’ intestines for sausages, for example.
It’s also completely normalised to have hacked-off pieces or even entire corpses actively rotting (albeit relatively slowly) inside your fridge; so the concept of disgust doesn’t really factor in so long as you’re used to it.
It has also been my experience that people who act concerned about something like soy having phytoestrogens in it suddenly stop caring when it’s pointed out to them that cow milk contains actual mammalian estrogen. The “concerns” they often express are rarely genuine.
I doubt anyone would care. People are just used to whatever is normalised on a cultural level. They often eat the inner linings from animals’ intestines for sausages, for example. It’s also completely normalised to have hacked-off pieces or even entire corpses actively rotting (albeit relatively slowly) inside your fridge; so the concept of disgust doesn’t really factor in so long as you’re used to it.
It has also been my experience that people who act concerned about something like soy having phytoestrogens in it suddenly stop caring when it’s pointed out to them that cow milk contains actual mammalian estrogen. The “concerns” they often express are rarely genuine.