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1. CHEESE
 
 
 

Apparently, weíre the only species that depends on this fantastic thumb facing the others, which permits us operations without limits. This, they say, has made it possible for us to develop the technique, that we may be a species so tecnified and in the end, that we may be a dominant specie. We belong to the mammals, a zoological group with many special characteristics. For example: we have hair. For example: the females of all the species that belong to that group feed their young with milk. This has brought me to think that, on one hand, the capacity of human beings to perform complicated manual operations permits us, neither more nor less, to milk the females of other mammals and not simply breast-feed... this has brought us, since many centuries to manufacture cheese.
Allrighty then, what is cheese, if not the food that has universally more recognition and acceptation among all the animal species (not only mammals)? Perhaps some animal, from an ant to a seagull  or elephant, would reject a grand buffet of manchego cheese, for example? All of us have been able to see how cheese makes unknown even its most basic extincts of prudence to the mouse, loose composture to the dog next to the table or organise an expedition of conquering a complete ant hill. And those fungi that live in it make it oh so delicious... That extraordinary power of cheese transfers itself to the human species and brings me to say: beware, humans, our supremacy above the other species will only last until we are the only cheese producers. Letís not allow the other animal species to discover the secrets of the manufacturing of cheese and we will sleep in peace!.


 
 



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