Dairy farmers? Seems unlikely.

You're joking but you'd be surprised. Apparently, all people of Indo-European descent are the descendants of ancient dairy farmers. Who bred, and bred, and bred- and took up, well, a lot of the available space. And dairy (rather, the ability to digest it) seems to have been a major reason for that taking-over.

Incidentally, are you Greek?

Fascinating, thanks! :)

I'm not Greek.

You're welcome and sorry- I thought your username was a play on words that would have made some sense in Greek.

I'm learning Greek. Curious what play on words that would be? In English it reads as a portmanteau of "cat" and "naturopath"

Ah, I see. It's a bit offensive really, sorry about that, but "catur-" sounds like the root for "κατούρημα", a slightly vulgar way to say "peeing". I thought you were kind of taking the piss off naturopaths. :-)

The kind of milk you get from males isn't exactly something most people would want to consume...

Dairy farms send their cattle to slaughter as well. It just happens on a different timescale for the females.