Vegans... Breast Milk Cheese?

RE*AC*TOR

Assuming the breast milk donor consented - would you eat cheese made from human breast milk? or butter? or just drink the milk itself?

I think there would be a market for that.

Tar.Aldarion

...:eek:

RE*AC*TOR

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

...:eek:

Its ethical - what's the problem? Personally I'd be up for trying some.

Shabadu

Actually, you can't really make cheese from breast milk. Doesn't have enough protein or something.

sportswear

if i was a vegan ethics would not be the problem i would have in eating it!!!

WindSock

Did you get that idea from watching Borat?

Capt'n Midnight

anyone know the going rate for a wet nurse ?

it could be very expensive cheese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_milk_banking_in_North_America

The HMBANA Guidelines stipulate that donors not be paid for their milk. However, collection, processing and distribution of milk are expensive, and recipients are charged $3.00-$4.50 per ounce of milk to cover some of the cost.

sweet-rasmus

gawd! what a terrible idea!!! the whole thing with being vegan is the milk of the animal is for the animal's young. surely it's the same; human breast milk is meant to give the baby all the nutrients it needs, NOT an adult!!!!! yuk!

RE*AC*TOR

i thought the whole vegan thing was that the animal didn't and couldn't give consent for its milf to be taken etc.

I really don't see what the problem is, seems to be an ethical and potentially delicious food stuff.

http://membres.lycos.fr/petitsingly/

sweet-rasmus

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

i thought the whole vegan thing was that the animal didn't and couldn't give consent for its milf to be taken etc.

as far as i'm concerned, it's living without animals.
straight from the vegan society website; "The Vegan Society provides advice on a way of living free of animal products". there ya go!!!

Tar.Aldarion

By definition, they wouldn't be vegan using the milk of a human. Some people have that as a reason for being a vegan reactor, not as a definition.

Thrill

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

i thought the whole vegan thing was that the animal didn't and couldn't give consent for its milf to be taken etc.

:eek:

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

I think there would be a market for that.

Maybe, but it would be a very small market making the milk very, very expensive. You'd also have to find enough women willing to be milked on a regular basis to keep any such business a stable and profitable one.

RE*AC*TOR

What a fantastic typo ^^^

Nature Boy

sweet-rasmus wrote:

"The Vegan Society provides advice on a way of living free of animal products". there ya go!!!

Yes, which is what we are!

RE*AC*TOR

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Its ethical - what's the problem? Personally I'd be up for trying some.

Trying some? As in giving donating your breast milk?

RE*AC*TOR

Myth wrote:

Trying some? As in giving donating your breast milk?

?? I don't follow.

The question I asked was: "would you eat cheese made from human breast milk? or butter? or just drink the milk itself?"

Then I said :"Personally I'd be up for trying some."

Where's the confusion?

I assumed Vegan's actually had a moral objection to eating animal products, based on logic (ie the animal can't consent, we are taking advantage etc). In this scenario, no one would be hurt, everyone would consent etc, yet no one seems keen. It doesn't make any sense to me. Unless you are choosing this diet not based on the ethics, but rather for a different reason (which I don't care to speculate on).

Thrill

After a quick Google, it seems theres a market out there for breast milk after all.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=eye_on_health&id=4151268

http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2007-04-10/levenson-breastmilkfetish


But as for cheese....

This woman tried to make cheese from hers but could not. Breast milk cannot curdle because the protein content is lower, and because the protein in breast milk is more easily digested compared to cow's milk.


http://www.indrani.net/index.php?q=2006/03/breast_milk_cheese


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Capt'n Midnight

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/30/1043804416757.html

a restaurant in China is serving dishes cooked with human breast milk farmed from mothers living in rural areas

TheBigLebowski

What about afterbirth as a protein filled vegetarian alternative?