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I was shocked to read that a company in London is now buying breast milk to make ice cream for retail to the public. They claim that by showing women how "yummy" breast milk is, more women may be will
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Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 27/2/2011 1:47 AM GMT
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I was shocked to read that a company in London is now buying breast milk to make ice cream for retail to the public. They claim that by showing women how "yummy" breast milk is, more women may be willing to breast feed. My concern is that this company is sending out the wrong message. Surely the underlying message is - why give your baby the breast milk when you can sell it to make money! At £15 for 10oz, when a term baby requires 150 mls / kg/day = 5oz/kg/day, therefore approx 20oz/day - these mothers could be making £30 per day, when their babies would benefit more from the immunoglobulins and other goodies contained in the milk. Is there really the marked place for breast milk ice-cream? Would you try it? How do you feel about the ethics behind its production and sales? |
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 27/2/2011 3:12 AM GMT
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Earthman Hominid is the only mammal which drinks milk as adults. Lions and wildebeests don't. i tell my patients that as some drink 3 litres/day and wonder why they are fat as it is "natural". Lactose tolerance in adults is an aberration of a subgroup of Earthman which raised cows, goats and sheep in Europe. Most Earthmen Hominids are lactose intolerant adults. Indeed I saw a Chinese patient recently who felt tight in the throat from Symbicort and deduced it was the lactose powder in the drug.
As for Earthman Hominid ice-cream, we have plumbed new depths. How about liquid nitrogen semen straws as swizzle sticks in your cocktails? I am sure it would trigger fertile imaginations to enliven the usually predictable repartee among the bourgeoisie. |
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 28/2/2011 1:12 AM GMT
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Having re-read the news report I'm intruiged how they can call it 100% organic? For crops to be organic they soil has to be free from chemicals for many years, for meat or eggs to be organic the animals have to be feed organic crops and not given chemicals. With modern mums, even if they eat organic food, they no doubt use cosmetics, deodorants and have been given drugs in labour - how can breast milk be considered totally organic? |
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 28/2/2011 10:03 AM GMT
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I guess that for breast milk to be organic, the mother eats organic food. We have plenty of expressed milk in our freezer, but I have not considered or will even try it in frozen or defrosted form. It's all for our little one and he prefers it warm. |
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 28/2/2011 4:26 PM GMT
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Why not?The idea can hardly be any more absurd than us drinking cow's milk can it? If we drank more breast milk would it not bring us into line with most other species? As pointed out above, possibly a more relevant question is why are we still such large consumers of milk beyond childhood when so many alternatives (with respect to nutritional value) exist? |
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 28/2/2011 6:33 PM GMT
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When we drink cow or any other animal's milk, aren't we depriving of their kids of their share of milk? And in this case we are depriving of our own babies of their milk for monetary gains! |
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 1/3/2011 4:20 PM GMT
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 1/3/2011 7:10 PM GMT
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In Response to Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?: Why not?The idea can hardly be any more absurd than us drinking cow's milk can it? Posted by karlos I agree, karlos, I've always found that idea absurd too. But I can't tolerate milk so maybe I'm biased (surely I am). If you think about it though, pulling on a cows dangly things and drinking what comes out doesn't sound very yummy at all. The first human being who did that must have been starving, to even get that idea in the first place. But our current eating habits reveal that people don't need any other reason to eat something apart from 'because it tastes good'. Otherwise we'd all be vegetarians and the world would be a better place. I actually find it quite funny how some people find breast milk disgusting but have no problem with 'normal' ice-cream... surely a woman woulnd't be more disgusting than a cow, would it?
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Re: Breask Milk Ice-cream - would you try it?
posted at 1/3/2011 9:45 PM GMT
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the breast milk ice-cream plot thickens Baby-gaga has now been "seized" by the council to ensure it is "fit for human consumption" As a publicity stunt for the ice-cream company this certainly seems to be working - but what do we think the answer will be? On a similar thought process - how about haggis from human organs? Blood pudding from human blood? Absolutely not I hear you cry - cannibalism is wrong - then why is ice-cream acceptable? The fact we prevent HIV +ve mothers breast feeding due to risk of transmission, then surely there is a risk of viral transmission from breast milk. What about prion diseases? |
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