Posted on 06/16/2006 9:53:44 PM PDT by beaversmom
Mother's milk may be the healthiest food for babies, but is it art?
Yes, according to Jess Dobkin, a lesbian mother and artist who will present her work Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar on July 13 at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the institution of higher learning that a few years ago brought you vomiting as performance art.
The audience will be invited to sip during cocktail hours (5 to 8 p.m.) small cups of pasteurized breast milk donated by six lactating new mothers in the community. Dobkin has obtained a breast milk pasteurizer and will have the milk tested by a lab.
"I am taking all precautions," she said in an interview. "Donors have all been screened."
She is also designing a unique serving vessel for each woman. "I conducted interviews with all the donors and I worked with each to envision the appropriate serving device, the way different glasses are used for red or white wine. The vessel is designed to bring out the uniqueness of each woman's milk."
Following the "tasting," there will be an artist's talk and discussion.
Dobkin, who came to Toronto from New York, and has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, said in a news release she became interested in taboos surrounding breastfeeding.
"This project re-contextualizes something often regarded as indecent or repellent, offering a celebratory view," the 36-year-old said. "A substance that nourishes us in our infancy later becomes a curiosity in adulthood."
You didn't say if you liked it or not?
The 'artist' of the article is really a bizarre lesbian mother ... if you but look at her archived net files.
As with all junk art, it must be supported by the public dole as it ain't worthy of free enterprise support.
Our government funded radical lesbian "artists" must be really bummed they didn't think of this.
Drag and paste this addy into your browser ... she's certifiable! http://www.jessdobkin.com/images/web_based/web_based_3.gif
Sorry, no not really, to burst her bubble but the "baby bottle" has already been designed.
Pervert.
Because raw (unpasteurized) milk is illegal to sell or serve in most jurisdictions. If the lactator isn't your mom and you're not really, really small, you don't want to invite the grief.
I drank it without noticing anything odd, so I must have liked it. I guess I would have been the subject of even more merriment if I had exclaimed that it was the best tea I ever drank, etc.
That's funny.
Don't all these women already have their own "unique serving vessels" for breast milk?
"How is a baby breast feeding seen as indecent or repellent?"
In the FR search box, put in breastfeeding or nursing and read through the threads that come up. You'll be enlightened on how quite a few people feel about breastfeeding. Mothers should stay home to feed their babies, discreet public breastfeeding is disgusting and on the same level as public defecating, urinating and masturbating. I kid you not.
It's not. My 15 month old is still breast fed, as were the other kids, although he's getting close to getting cut off. A few attempts at unbuttoning mom's shirt in public for a snack are prompting that. The best part was I didn't have to get up for nightly feedings (ducking head)
That was a big hypothetical "if" on my part. This disgusting and repellant "artist" is hell bent to bring a good thing down to her level
I think I'm gonna be sick
I believe it is art. It is beautiful but repulsive. Excellent idea.
Ack! I don't want to look at her archived articles, the little bit at the top was enough to make me feel literally sick to my stomach.
And I'm all for babies being fed with their mothers' milk. The disgusting thing is the perversion and sick minds on display.....
>:-[
Yes, that too. Yuck is right.
Just for the record...post 33. And it's less expensive than formula to boot....8>)
My parents were the anti breastfeeding types and I see that with quite a few folks from their generation. Not sure why though
Actually, you can buy raw (cow's) milk directly from producers all across the country, but most don't sell it. It's not exactly that it's illegal to sell it, but a combination of lack of demand (not many people want to drink unpasteurized milk), and unwillingness to supply on the part of large producers. In this day of "full organic" nuttiness, the demand for raw milk has grown (somewhat) and there are stores that sell it in just about every state.
Truth is, to most people, refrigerated raw milk (shaken up to mix the cream tastes exactly like pasteurized milk (although cheese made from raw milk does taste different - most think better - than cheese made from pasteurized milk).
Raw milk from American producers is almost certainly safe, because of the high cleanliness and disease control standards of American dairy farmers. That's actually true of raw American pork too. If Americans picked up the habit of eating pork-steak tartar, they probably would not get trichinosis, because American pig farms are clean (disease-wise; the esthetics are another matter...). Ditto for eggs. Eat American eggs raw, and you're less likely to get salmonella than if you eat Mexican eggs raw (for example).
All that said, a fundamental question remains: why would anybody want to eat raw chicken? Undercooked chicken is just nasty. Raw chicken is nastier. A chicken is a winged snake. Wanna eat raw snake? Caesar salad dressing requires raw eggs, so eating it in San Francisco is reasonably safe, but eating it in San Francisco de Oaxaca isn't. Raw beef? Well, it tastes good. Steak tartare in France is good; Italian carapaccio is good. So if you're in Paris or Rome or New York and order it, you're essentially safe. Even if you could get it Peking, don't.
But raw pork?
Why?
Even if you're not going to trichinosis from Iowa pork chops, why would you want to eat it raw? Rare pork is like rare chicken: NOT delicious. If it were really good, like raw beef is, there would have been care taken to produce it. But it's really not good uncooked, and even if swine-born illness is eliminated worldwide, people are just not going to take up eating raw pork. "Nasty" is not an acquired taste.
Which brings us back to raw milk. If someone really wants to buy it, there's a raw milk vendor website to tell you where to get it in every state, perfectly legally. But why? It doesn't taste any different if you shake it up. It can upset some people's stomachs because there are more bugs in it. It doesn't keep as long. So why?
Cheese made from unpasteurized milk?
Sure. French cheese is mostly unpasteurized. Those extra bugs make for more pungent cheese for some reason.
Now, raw human milk?
The age of the wet nurse has passed in our part of the world.
A new perversion might be for adult consumption, someday.
But I don't think that's on the horizon anytime soon.
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