An organic, free range treat

'Free Range'?!

Yeah... and I've seen what some humans eat, too, while they're 'free ranging'.

I'll pass.

You beat me to it, OFG! Humans are nasty little critters.

I know what I should answer, but I just don't know if I would or could.

Kind of adds a whole new meaning to the term "milking a fad for all its worth," doesn't it?

I said that I'd try it. We regularly use milk that comes from the nipples of other animals, so why not milk from a human?

Why not give it to human babies?

Well, there's nothing better for humans than human breast milk, and with this, you don't have to worry of the treatment of the animals producing your treat...

But I'm afraid I'd have too much of a squick to partake.

Everyone I know who's tasted breast milk says it just tastes like milk, only much sweeter. The idea shouldn't bother me, but it does.

Human breast milk is for human babies. That's my line in the sand, however much of a hypocrite it makes me for drinking whole cow's milk.

all milk is for babies.

I wonder how much that pays, to be a human breast milk donor? And are the milking facilities held to the same quality and "animal" use standards as other milk-production facilities? Or are they treated more like blood donation centers? This actually opens up a bunch of interesting questions.

Anything to make a buck...

Squicky covers it nicely, monkey. Some things I just can't be rational about.

I don't want any (I prefer Ben &
Jerry's Bonnaroo Buzz), but why is human milk any squickier than milk from this?

I dunno; looks tasty to me (the steaks from the cow, I mean, not that ... bag thing).

I can't associate a face and personality to a cow milk...I can to breastmilk. Some of the women I know, yeah, no thanks.

It seems like a pointless novelty for the point of gaining publicity. So i guess it's working.

You know what? If they treated them like veal so I knew exactly what they'd been fed and where they'd been. Maybe.

Otherwise, Ew.

Echoing "ew".

I'll pass.

Although, I did just read an article in our local paper about mothers who sell their breast milk to other nursing mothers. It's cheaper than going to a breast milk bank (which I didn't even realize existed until I read the article.) There's no way I'd ever be comfortable with that, either.

I'm getting deja vu - this has been suggested before:
http://www.wptz.com/r/17539127/detail.html

And we (well some of us) have discussed it:
http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116886

Ben, keeping abreast of all the news...

benbradley said:

Ben, keeping abreast of all the news...

Click to expand...

I see what you did there.

He'll be here all night folks...try the veal.

ETA: And the ice cream!

I have two problems with this.

1. The women should be paid. I have problems with donated things being used for profit.

2. From a food allergy standpoint this is dangerous. Some allergens do cross into breastmilk and I don't trust the salesmen to have done quality control on what the donors ate in the previous week...not to mention medications that cross into the milk as well.