The clarrification really is that dairy products are not really naturally occuring food sources for human adults. Certainly not animal milks. However - there is nothing within dairy products that is un-natural to the human body. We as a race didn't begin consuming animal dairy products in adulthood until we began herding animals (which occured before we started cultivating crops of crap for our own consumption).
A lot of the human race has an intolerance to lactose, the disaccharide that makes up roughly 4.5% of cow milk (and about 9% of human breast milk). Fortunately, due to genetics and evolution - those of us of Northern and Western Europe (excelent, that counts us Anglo-Saxons in) have developed a mutation that continues the production of Lactase (the chemical in the human body that is responsible for the digestion of lactose) well into adulthood. In fact, the occurance of Lactose intolerance in Britain is considered to be somewhere around 5%-15%, in my family - I think it is lower still.
So if I have no lactose intolerance - I see no reason why I cannot consume dairy as part of my paleolithic diet.
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