I can fathom the reasons and justifications (nutritional, ethical, and environmental) for not eating milk (and related products, such as ice cream or cheese).
What about the idea of making cheese or ice cream from human breast milk? Certainly there are no ethical or environmental conflicts. As for nutritional, I haven't a clue.
Mind you, I don't have the slightest clue what breast milk tastes like; goat milk tastes different from cow milk, so (for all I know) it could be really grim tasting. The reason I ask is because I'm trying to goad my wife (who is lactating) into producing a little extra to try this experiment.
Has anyone tried this?
Nemesio
Originally posted by nemesioseriously, the milk really is not for the already weaned who tend to lose the ability to breakdown certain components like lactose, which may be why something like 70% of the adult population is actually lactose intolerant:
I can fathom the reasons and justifications (nutritional, ethical, and environmental) for not eating milk (and related products, such as ice cream or cheese).
What about the idea of making cheese or ice cream from human breast milk? Cer ...[text shortened]... extra to try this experiment.
Has anyone tried this?
Nemesio
Lactose intolerance, the inability to digest the sugar found in milk, is widespread and affects up to 70% of the world's adult population ... Lactose intolerance is found in as many as 75% of African Americans, Jewish Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans, and in 90% of Asian Americans. Descendants of Northern Europeans and some Mediterranean peoples usually do not develop the condition.
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/carbohydrate_intolerance.jsp
(human milk btw has nearly twice the lactose concentration as bovine milk:
http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/AnSci308/HumanLact.html)
btw, goat's milk is supposed to be closest to human milk (i've heard back in the 70s), but i can't recall why off hand.
the rights issue on this is most interesting and profound though.
in friendship,
prad
A nutritional, or disease related, danger would be that human milk is more likely to harbor human disease microorganisms than cow milk is. Also, you're going to have to obtain it yourself, so the chance you might screw something up will be higher than if a professional company or diaryperson were to gather and process the milk.
Originally posted by nemesioAre you going to make cheese from her breast milk?
I can fathom the reasons and justifications (nutritional, ethical, and environmental) for not eating milk (and related products, such as ice cream or cheese).
What about the idea of making cheese or ice cream from human breast milk? Certainly there are no ethical or environmental conflicts. As for nutritional, I haven't a clue.
Mind you, I don't ha ...[text shortened]... ting) into producing a little extra to try this experiment.
Has anyone tried this?
Nemesio
I believ you would need quite a bity of it?
Are you planning on milking her by hand or using the suction pump thingy?
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Originally posted by nemesioAre you going to make cheese from her breast milk?
I can fathom the reasons and justifications (nutritional, ethical, and environmental) for not eating milk (and related products, such as ice cream or cheese).
What about the idea of making cheese or ice cream from human breast milk? Cer ...[text shortened]... extra to try this experiment.
Has anyone tried this?
Nemesio
I believ you would need quite a bity of it?
Are you planning on milking her by hand or using the suction pump thingy?
😀
Goat milk tastes almost exactly like cow's milk. Sheep's milk tastes like melted ice cream
vanilla
i work in a hotel restaurant, and we had a wedding party in. now, some people hadn't ordered vegitarian meals, or had but it hadn't got through, or something...but anyway-we served them the meat dish. they then asked for the vegitariona one instead as they were vegies. we said "sure!" and gave them the veggie one. then chucked the meat one in the bin...
what's the point?!? the thing still dies-tis either you eat it, or it dies for no reason!
okay-so that's not always the case, but the amount of meat that is thrown out cause of veggies is actually quite surprising...😛
Originally posted by geniusI'm a vegetarian, and I wouldn't eat meat that was put in front of me beacuse it had already died.
what's the point?!? the thing still dies-tis either you eat it, or it dies for no reason!
What fault is it of mine that somebody killed, butchered and cooked an animal?
If the demand for meat is less, then less meat will be produced in the future. If hotels keep tossing out meat, they will stop buying so much meat, or will be more careful to make sure people really want meat instead of assuming they do if they don't ask for vegetarian.
Also some people don't eat meat for other reasons.