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I noticed in the article he has to combine the breast milk with whipping cream for the right consistency. So then what is the point of using that valuable stuff in the first place? It's a waste of good breast milk that could be donated to a hospital's NICU.

Just my opinion, but I'm thinking, short of extraordinary medical circumstances, breast milk should be shared between mother and child only. It's part of a special bond that shouldn't be cheapened by commercialism.

Does he pasturize it? Does he screen women? What about alcohol, drugs, be it (legal or non), diseases, even what women consume .

looks like this guy got what he wanted, people are talking about him. As I think it was PT Barnum used to say "I dont care what you say, just keep talking about me" look at all the free publicity. ;-)

I'm reluctant to criticize the women who sell their milk, because it's their bodies and they can do what they wish with them. I could even see selling breast milk become a cottage industry, whether for people who want to feed it to babies or use it as an animal-free milk source. That doesn't mean I'm in any rush to try it. Just thinking of it gives me the heaves.

Hehe as foodies (ugh I hate that word) we're all prime "sucker" candidates. Most of us want to try something new or are at least intrigued by interesting edible items.

I'd check it out.

First instinct when I heard this on the news was that it was disssgusting. But why are we so disgusted by something we would feed to our children?

Daniel J, you make a good point though that it is someone ELSE's breast milk, not our mother's. I'm back to thinking it's gross.

Hillary
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@beth1, I have to know the other saying!

From a practical point of view, a lot of lactating women "pump and dump:" they either produce more than their child can take in, or they're weaning, and they want to transition their kids to solid foods.

I agree that it might be better to donate the milk to a milk bank, and that it sounds like a publicity stunt, but which is more unnatural - that some of us are horrified by consuming food products that come from our own bodies, or that we consume food products made from another species, from a substance intended for that species' young?

I remember reading a few years ago about a group of people who attempted to come to the United States from Cuba via a rubber raft. It was a very sad story. They ran out of food and water. Two of the women on the raft were lactating, and apparently everyone on the raft, some of whom died, were fighting to nurse, just to stay alive.

Wow that gives me the bubble guts just reading that..um, ew...

Unless there was any real point to using it like a specific distinct taste that cannot be attained through other milk from animals I really see NO rhyme or reason behind this one except publicity, horrible publicity.

Not to say I would every try it, but it is an interesting topic of why we are disgusted by our own bodies and not animals. I mean, every mammal mother has milk for their baby. Who's to say which mammal we take it from? But the idea of a line of women standing in line with "milkers" hooked onto their breasts, does sound a bit disturbing.

NEXT!

I wonder is if a mother giving the milk ate something that is a common allergy to people (nuts, shell fish, ect), would cause a reaction to the person eating the food w/that milk?

how much is he paying for the stuff? and who is the mook that's letting him milk her? if it were multiple women in one room, would we call it a farm?