Would you drink breast milk?

slipss · 21-08-2008 06:32PM #1

Ok, inspired by the breast feeding in public thread I thought I'd throw this one out there. If human milk was on sale in the super market alongside the other dairy products would you drink it. Presuming it has been pasturised, the producers have been screened for disease ect obviously. Personally I never really understood why its not on sale, have a farm, milk the woman, pay them for the product. I mean it is supposed to be extremely healthy for you, boosts your immune system, ideal nutrition for human beings ect.

(poll enroute)

Turd Ferguson · 21-08-2008 06:34PM

Are you offering?

Karl Hungus · 21-08-2008 06:34PM

Yes.

Sherifu · 21-08-2008 06:35PM

Fo shizzle.

AckwelFoley · 21-08-2008 06:35PM

id drink it, but to be honest im more of a dairy farmer, not a consumer

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 21-08-2008 06:35PM

Vegan so no, even if I wasn't I'd be a bit icked out by it I think. It'd want to be free range at least.

brianthebard · 21-08-2008 06:37PM

You'd have to knock up a woman,then take the calf from her,milk her,and when she runs dry repeat the process.What would you do with the calves op?

Podge2k7 · 21-08-2008 06:40PM

FCUK NO!

Mint Sauce · 21-08-2008 06:40PM

brianthebard wrote: »

You'd have to knock up a woman,then take the calf from her,milk her,and when she runs dry repeat the process.What would you do with the calves op?

if their female, wait till their child bearing age and repeat process

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dont see human milk ever been produced/marketed/sold like this, far far to many ethical/humane/moral implications

slipss · 21-08-2008 06:43PM

brianthebard wrote: »

You'd have to knock up a woman,then take the calf from her,milk her,and when she runs dry repeat the process.What would you do with the calves op?

Now I'm no scientician but aren't women able to produce milk continuosly once they have babies as long as they continue to eat healthily and are milked regularly? They would do with the calves what mothers always do with thier calves, if its not broke don't fix it.

Dudess · 21-08-2008 06:46PM

Podge2k7 wrote: »

FCUK NO!

Why not?

Yeah OP, I would. I admit it would feel a bit weird initially cuz of how I've been socially and culturally conditioned, but Jesus, it's weird how that same society/culture has led me to believe it's ok to drink milk from a farm animal and not from my own species.

If it's good enough for babies then it's certainly good enough for adults.

slipss · 21-08-2008 06:48PM

irish-stew wrote: »

dont see human milk ever been produced/marketed/sold like this, far far to many ethical/humane/moral implications

Such as? I'm not suggesting women be chained in a shed and force fed crushed human brains and eyes mixed with hormones then milked round the clock while Beethoven plays in the backround or anything. It would be no different than a candlestick maker selling her candlesticks. Unless I'm over looking an obvious ethical issue?

brianthebard · 21-08-2008 06:50PM

slipss wrote: »

Now I'm no scientician but aren't woman able to produce milk continuosly once they have babies as long as they continue to eat healthily and are milked regularly? They would do with the calves what mothers always do with thier calves, if its not broke don't fix it.

im not a dairy farmer but i assumed yield fell off after a while?Also god yea i would,but only raw and direct from source!

dr.bollocko · 21-08-2008 06:51PM

Ezequiel Mango Stag wrote: »

Vegan so no, even if I wasn't I'd be a bit icked out by it I think. It'd want to be free range at least.

So if you wanted to raise a vegan child (And subject it to all the raised health risks associated with that) you couldn't feed it the one kind of food that is definitely 100% certain to be the only thing that is definitely food made for humans?
The mind actually boggles.

Karoma · 21-08-2008 06:53PM

Ezequiel Mango Stag wrote: »

Vegan so no, even if I wasn't I'd be a bit icked out by it I think. It'd want to be free range at least.

You're certainly not going to like my offer of cream so.
Were you a vegan at birth?

OP: No. It tastes horrible.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 21-08-2008 06:55PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

So if you wanted to raise a vegan child (And subject it to all the raised health risks associated with that) you couldn't feed it the one kind of food that is definitely 100% certain to be the only thing that is definitely food made for humans?
The mind actually boggles.

I'm sorry, I should have made it more obvious, I'm not an infant, I'm an adult.
I don't want children but if I did have them I would definitely breastfeed and not raise them vegan (though probably vegetarian because I can't cook meat due to my own entirely vegetarian childhood which did me absolutely no harm). Clearer?

Flojo · 21-08-2008 06:56PM

Nope not for me anyways, heard it's ment to taste sickly sweet.

dr.bollocko · 21-08-2008 06:57PM

Ezequiel Mango Stag wrote: »

I'm sorry, I should have made it more obvious, I'm not an infant, I'm an adult.
I don't want children but if I did have them I would definitely breastfeed and not raise them vegan (though probably vegetarian because I can't cook meat due to my own entirely vegetarian childhood which did me absolutely no harm). Clearer?

:eek:
So as an adult, your issue with the breast milk is that you cant have it because you are a vegan?
That's quite a strange one. I wonder what the general slant on that is from our other vegan brothers and sisters.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 21-08-2008 06:59PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

:eek:
So as an adult, your issue with the breast milk is that you cant have it because you are a vegan?
That's quite a strange one. I wonder what the general slant on that is from our other vegan brothers and sisters.

It was half in jest tbh, but seeing as I'm a vegan for reasons other than moral ones, I'd have much less of an issue with human milk than other milk as it's probably a lot better for you. Were you attacked by a vegan as a child or something?

slipss · 21-08-2008 07:01PM

Ezequiel Mango Stag wrote: »

Were you attacked by a vegan as a child or something?

Now thats just being silly, where would a vegan get the strenght to lift thier head up long enough to see someone to attack them?

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV · 21-08-2008 07:01PM

only if it were from a hotties boobies

dr.bollocko · 21-08-2008 07:01PM

Ezequiel Mango Stag wrote: »

It was half in jest tbh, but seeing as I'm a vegan for reasons other than moral ones, I'd have much less of an issue with human milk than other milk as it's probably a lot better for you. Were you attacked by a vegan as a child or something?

Vegans are generally too weak to attack people. Similar to most consumers of breast milk actually.

slipss · 21-08-2008 07:02PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Vegans are generally too weak to attack people. Similar to most consumers of breast milk actually.

heh, great minds and all that.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 21-08-2008 07:04PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Vegans are generally too weak to attack people. Similar to most consumers of breast milk actually.

Till they start teething....hopefully my woefully low calcium levels* will nip that one in the bud

brianthebard · 21-08-2008 07:04PM

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV wrote: »

only if it were from a hotties boobies

lolz would dunnes own brand come from an ugly girl?

Havermeyer · 21-08-2008 07:05PM

I'd try it. It'd be strange to be repulsed by it when we do drink cow's milk.

I wouldn't be putting it on my cereal though.

dr.bollocko · 21-08-2008 07:05PM

slipss wrote: »

heh, great minds and all that.

I must remember to buy you a good rare steak.

Creamy Goodness · 21-08-2008 07:05PM

Flojo wrote: »

Nope not for me anyways, heard it's ment to taste sickly sweet.

yeh it does taste sweet.

dr.bollocko · 21-08-2008 07:06PM

Ezequiel Mango Stag wrote: »

Till they start teething....hopefully my woefully low calcium levels* will nip that one in the bud

That made me recoil a little.
Do babies really get ... toothy with the boobies?
/winces.

LadyE · 21-08-2008 07:09PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

That made me recoil a little.
Do babies really get ... toothy with the boobies?
/winces.

Yes they do.

Some nursing mothers supply milk for milk banks, for babies who's mothers for some reason or another cant produce breastmilk, so, this is already going on.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 21-08-2008 07:09PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

That made me recoil a little.
Do babies really get ... toothy with the boobies?
/winces.

Dunno don't have any, I get asked a lot of questions about bewbs on here lately though....

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