Very Big Trigger warning: Large EEEWW factor and I do NOT know what is going on.

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I am so bothered by this and I have no idea why. I got tweeted by the Washington Post Twitter today about the following:

 

Yes, a restaurant is serving breast milk cheese. Should that be a big deal? http://bit.ly/c6OFnw | video: http://bit.ly/9nh0wT

 

Now. My mother tells me that when I send her tweets via email she can just s, but I do not know about where you are, so good luck. I have read this and I am unsure which of the following I want to do:

 

1. Hurl.

2. Shrug and say that some people have too much time on their hands.

3. Worry that I am sexually repressed.

4. Try the cheese - maybe I'll like it (?????!!!!!!!!** & ^()()))^%%^*)

5. Buy a brainscrubber so that I can scrub the image out of my brain.

6. Shrug and go back to my mundane little life.

 

Help? I mean I need a brainscrubber for sure, because I cannot get this scene out of my brain, and I have no idea why!!

 

Cyn

[Guest guest]

I presume by breastmilk you mean from humans? I don't think this is any more

'icky' than drinking breastmilk from other animals.

 

Jo

 

, cyn84074 wrote:

>

> I am so bothered by this and I have no idea why. I got tweeted by the

> Washington Post Twitter today about the following:

>

> Yes, a restaurant is serving breast milk cheese. Should that be a big

> deal? _http://bit.ly/c6OFnw_ (http://bit.ly/c6OFnw) | video:

> _http://bit.ly/9nh0wT_ (http://bit.ly/9nh0wT)

>

> Now. My mother tells me that when I send her tweets via email she can just

> s, but I do not know about where you are, so good luck. I

> have read this and I am unsure which of the following I want to do:

>

> 1. Hurl.

> 2. Shrug and say that some people have too much time on their hands.

> 3. Worry that I am sexually repressed.

> 4. Try the cheese - maybe I'll like it (?????!!!!!!!!** & ^()()))^%%^*)

> 5. Buy a brainscrubber so that I can scrub the image out of my brain.

> 6. Shrug and go back to my mundane little life.

>

> Help? I mean I need a brainscrubber for sure, because I cannot get this

> scene out of my brain, and I have no idea why!!

>

> Cyn

>

[Guest guest]

Hey Cyn. First off, no one can tell you how you should feel about this. If it gives you the creeps, then it just does.For me, I breastfed my son for quite awhile. There is a time frame when you do manage to stockpile quite a bit of excess milk. I did use it for making his cereal as he progressed into foods, but I have to admit, a lot went to the garbage and that really did bother me. It seems so incredibly wasteful.As for making cheese out of it, it never occurred to me and if it had, I would have ignored the thought! However, the fact that people have absolutely no problem with using cow's milk from a cow's teet should be just as gross.The article did say that he served it only in his home for guests who wanted to try it, so I think that's a

better idea. I did learn something from the article and that was that human breastmilk doesn't curdle. Interesting. I wonder why???Thanks for the article, though. Different strokes, huh??Vicky "Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures."-Dalai Lama of Tibet, His Holiness, The XIV "cyn84074" <cyn84074 Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 1:19:14 AM Very Big Trigger warning: Large EEEWW factor and I do NOT know what is going on.

 

 

 

 

I am so bothered by this and I have no idea why. I got tweeted by the Washington Post Twitter today about the following:

 

Yes, a restaurant is serving breast milk cheese. Should that be a big deal? http://bit.ly/ c6OFnw | video: http://bit.ly/ 9nh0wT

 

Now. My mother tells me that when I send her tweets via email she can just s, but I do not know about where you are, so good luck. I have read this and I am unsure which of the following I want to do:

 

1. Hurl.

2. Shrug and say that some people have too much time on their hands.

3. Worry that I am sexually repressed.

4. Try the cheese - maybe I'll like it (?????!!!!!! !!** & ^()()))^%%^* )

5. Buy a brainscrubber so that I can scrub the image out of my brain.

6. Shrug and go back to my mundane little life.

 

Help? I mean I need a brainscrubber for sure, because I cannot get this scene out of my brain, and I have no idea why!!

 

Cyn

[Guest guest]

I am still breastfeeding my 2 year old but I never have any excess milk. When she is ill and won't feed I struggle to express any at all so there is no way I could use any to make cheese! Personally I think this aversion people have to things being made out of human breastmilk is a cultural issue. We are just not used to it. In fact we are barely used to nursing mothers as you can tell by the fact that so many people think it odd to carry on feeding once your child is no longer a very young baby. In the UK by the time a child is six months old only 22 percent are still being breastfed. I imagine it must be less than 10 percent that are still feeding by my daughters age but I couldn't find a figure for this.Anyway, it seems to me that as we are human mammals really human milk is the appropriate milk for us for the

first few years of our life and after that I think our nutrition should be supplied by other foods. It seems odd to me that we would ever eat cow's milk or make cheese from cow's milk. I find it just totally strange that most people seem to think it would be disgusting to eat human milk in any form but have no problem with cow's milk. Personally I wouldn't want to eat human breast milk anymore than I would cow's breast milk. I'm a nursing mother I was weaned years ago, I shouldn't be eating any milk!I really do think this aversion to human breast milk is cultural. Plus I do think it might have something to do with protecting out own species as we would not want to see women milked and treated the way cows are and there is no way we could get enough human milk for everyone's cereals without exploiting women dreadfully and I think the reason we drink so much cow's milk (in general, obviously I don't drink it) is

because in the past women died in childbirth so their children had to be given another species' milk especially if they were poor as a wet nurse would probably not be an option. People in the country with animals would have probably drunk cow's milk as food was not plentiful like it is today and then the railways made it available to all. And now the dairy industry makes out it is essential.Sorry to go on so!

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It makes more sense than eating cheese made from another specie's milk. At least the donor wasn't imprisoned and coerced and later eaten when she stopped giving milk.Patricia--- On Thu, 3/11/10, cyn84074 <cyn84074 wrote:cyn84074 <cyn84074 Very Big Trigger warning: Large EEEWW factor and I do NOT know what is going on. Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 11:19 PM

 

 

I am so bothered by this and I have no idea why. I got tweeted by the Washington Post Twitter today about the following:

 

Yes, a restaurant is serving breast milk cheese. Should that be a big deal? http://bit.ly/c6OFnw | video: http://bit.ly/9nh0wT

 

Now. My mother tells me that when I send her tweets via email she can just s, but I do not know about where you are, so good luck. I have read this and I am unsure which of the following I want to do:

 

1. Hurl.

2. Shrug and say that some people have too much time on their hands.

3. Worry that I am sexually repressed.

4. Try the cheese - maybe I'll like it (?????!!!!!!!!** & ^()()))^%%^*)

5. Buy a brainscrubber so that I can scrub the image out of my brain.

6. Shrug and go back to my mundane little life.

 

Help? I mean I need a brainscrubber for sure, because I cannot get this scene out of my brain, and I have no idea why!!

 

Cyn