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Thank you for this post! It made me smile from ear to ear. I just found Batman themed Airheads at Target yesterday, which included a grape flavored bar. I was thrilled beyond belief and trying to find an excuse to go back so I can buy 10 bags of Airheads just to get the one grape!

Awesome commentary!

Sarah has created such an inspired series--as someone who works in this sphere, I hope that TPTB take notice of her and realize that you can't patronize to women anymore!

@dmarina-yep! The ew comments are cracking me up too!

@Timothy--I love folks who come on here just to SAY ew! Go read the two threads we have on cannibalism (one from just 2 days ago!)
Realize this forum has unbiased discussions about all kinds of topics, some that folks consider taboo in many different ways....we still try to be polite and respectful! Join us more often and see!

WTF? This is repulsive and bizarre and beyond the lines of good taste. Drinking breast milk beyond your time as an infant has a very real and accepted socially inappropriate notion about it. "Well we drink cows milk why not human" Well us humans also eat lamb blood and tiger penis and cobra heart, and perhaps more of a western favorite like beef! Perhaps we should eat the muscles, genitals, blood, and organs of humans just like we do animals! Listen I know you could argue my point full of more holes than swiss cheese all day but I simply do not agree with this. This is the perverse indulgence of a group of people who are evidently deviants.

@dmarina-yeah, but that is a mental and hormonal thing, and not every woman is capable of lactating without a pregnancy by any means. Unless drugs are involved to induce it, which would be like the cows given hormones etc. and the whole subject of them transferring to the milk.
I don't want to drink hormone-filled breast milk any more than I do hormone-filled cows milk.

OMG veginbk! Eating cow shit via cows milk! You totally made my day! Thank you!

And for all those of you who think it would be okay with you to eat boob-cake, I salute you! I, however, stand by my previous ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Um, cows have to be lactating in order to be milked also, hence inseminating them as necessary so they give birth and then give milk for a period of time. They don't just always give milk. Same for all mammals.
The period of time they lactate can be lengthened, but it still takes a birth every so often to keep it going. It would be the same for humans if this was actually a commercial thing.

Breast milk wouldn't necessarily be Organic, or Natural. Breast milk changes based on diet... Hence some drugs not being ok for breast feeding mothers. If the Mother had an organic, or natural diet then, yes, it too would most likely be organic. Much like cows however the majority of milk that would be available on market would not be organic.

There is nothing gross about breast milk, you drank it to become an adult. Or you drank a synthetic version in formula. Either way, you really shouldn't be drinking milk anyway.

I really don't think I could handle making or eating cupcakes made out of breast milk. I know it's an irrational line of thinking but something about consuming breast milk gives me the shudders. And I can't say I was breast fed as a baby either!

When I was breastfeeding my baby last year, I had too much milk so I signed up to donate to the local milk bank. To be accepted, I had to fill out a ton of paperwork and my pediatrician and gynecologist had to be interviewed. It is a lot more work than giving blood so I doubt that it can be a viable and lucrative industry.

The milk bank gives the milk to premature babies and elderly patients with severe illnesses because it's easier to digest and has a lot of helpful antibodies. I think people who think breastmilk is gross are sexualizing breasts. They were there for nutrition not just use as "funbags."

Wow...yeah, until you find a group of women willing to be (literally) treated like cattle...and it has to be a LARGE group of women, simply because of the volume discrepancy between humans and cows...but I'll save what I've got for my baby, thanks!

Reading this and the cannibalism thread is just cracking me up. It does not much appeal to me, but mostly because I just don't see it being produced in large quantities. The mothers I know who nursed sure had a hard time of it, and I can't see wanting to go through that unnecessarily.

This post reminds me of this:
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php
Sorry I can't get it to be just the breast milk post...the site is having issues. Just scroll down to it, 5th one down. (Vol 5)