Nick Szabo  🔑

The two main kinds of agriculture were grain-dominated stationary & nomadic pastoral. Over several centuries preceding & during the industrial revolution, some regions of northwestern Europe developed a third kind of ag that combined the best of each: stationary pastoralism. /1

I’m just looking to understand in this tweet storm why in Argentina we have railroads by the British, cows and milk, but no good cheese.

Do you cows descend from British or Spanish cows?

I imagine several factors: * Less lactase persistence leads to more beef & less dairy * Hard cheese is generally a northern rather than Mediterranean tradition, based on their cows lactation cycle * Refrigeration made hard cheese less necessary