Mmmmmmmm - Tasty!

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by obs20

It's the new soylent green

No, it's the OLD soylent green. It really is people.

On an intellectual level I feel it should not make a difference. But on an emotional level, it does. It's too personal. Breast milk is a gift and should be rare.

Then too, Mad Cow disease was launched when cattle were fed recycled bits of other cows. Could we be setting ourselves up for similar long term health problems if this catches on?

[kindlekitten]

actually I saw this story a couple of years back.

what I don't get is that mothers milk is so precious for sick infants, why it is not reserved for serious medical needs?

[obs20]

Originally Posted by Mortis

I keep picturing these shops with a cooler in the back full of jugs, or the fresh section where you can get it from the source, this will be the most popular and biggest money maker. I can't see how this business plan can fail

How about turning the milk into cheese and using it for healthy pizzas.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by obs20

How about turning the milk into cheese and using it for healthy pizzas.

This is just getting silly now . Next we'll we talking about white chocolate made with mothers' milk. And NOBODY better mess with my white chocolate!

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by Mortis

You really have to wonder about the first guy that got down on his knees and decided to try cows milk first, I can't imagine what went through his mind. How about the process for milking how did they figure that out?

Considering that domestication was done on the order of 10,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers who didn't have the luxury of being picky what they ate as long as it wasn't poisonous, the first guy had probably had much worse things to eat than milk. And animal milk was probably being drank sporadically long before cattle (and sheep, and goats, and camels, and alpaca...) domestication-- pity the first man (or woman) to attempt milking a woolly rhinoceros.

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by Mortis

What I really want to know about early man is, just how hungry was the first guy that ate an oyster?

And the first guy who ate an oyster was without a doubt an earlier hominid species than Homo sapiens. Move that culinary discovery back to single-digit millions of years ago, at least.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...uman-evolution

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

Then too, Mad Cow disease was launched when cattle were fed recycled bits of other cows. Could we be setting ourselves up for similar long term health problems if this catches on?

The problem with prions is that they aren't destroyed by normal cooking temperatures like bacteria are-- if you fully cook a burger infected with E. coli, you are safe from contracting E. coli from that burger. If you fully cook a burger infected with prions, you are still fully at risk of contracting a prion-based disease. I've never heard of a prion transmitted through any type of milk, but if one existed, it would survive pasteurization.

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by obs20

How about turning the milk into cheese and using it for healthy pizzas.

It's just not the same, is it really.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

actually I saw this story a couple of years back.

what I don't get is that mothers milk is so precious for sick infants, why it is not reserved for serious medical needs?

I thought it is, isn't it?

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

I thought it is, isn't it?

if they are making ice cream I don't see how that is reserved.

unless this is a joke I don;t get

[Billi]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

what I don't get is that mothers milk is so precious for sick infants, why it is not reserved for serious medical needs?

if they are making ice cream I don't see how that is reserved.

It is used by breast-feeding mothers as a "domestic remedy", for instance as nose drops or eye drops or ointment, and not only for the baby but for the whole family. And if I remember right there are attempts in cancer research which are based on mother's milk. But you're of course right, making ice cream is simply a waste (that only makes people shudder).

[Mortis]

The mental images are too much

[GeoffC]

Baby Gaga breast milk ice cream seized for safety tests

Ice cream made from breast milk has been removed from a central London restaurant on health grounds following complaints by members of the public.

[astra]

Disgusting.

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Baby Gaga breast milk ice cream seized for safety tests

Ice cream made from breast milk has been removed from a central London restaurant on health grounds following complaints by members of the public.

Understandable as it was most likely not pasteurized, something about the whole thing is just dirty, weird how something that simple can be so disgusting.