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Breast milk ice cream hits London streets
Edmonton Journal ^ | 22 Mar 2011 | Mia Stainsby

Posted on 03/22/2011 9:37:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog

It doesn't get more locavore than this. Ice cream made from human breast milk. Or what about mom's milk cheese?

It's the most natural of foods and yet, human breast milk is lumped in with bizarre and controversial foods, unless, of course, it's a suckling baby drinking it.

The latest human breast milk product is Baby Gaga ice cream, sold in London, England, in a shop called The Icecreamists. The restaurant buys milk from mamas to make into ice cream flavoured with vanilla and lemon zest that it serves in a martini glass for about $22.50.

"The Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich. No one's done anything interesting with ice cream in the last 100 years," owner Matt O'Connor has said.

Is it the thin edge of a trend? It isn't the first human milk product to be sold to the public. Klee Brasserie, a fine dining restaurant in New York City, made limited amounts of breast milk cheese dishes while the owner's wife was lactating last year. The chef/owner served the cheese dredged in porcini powder; with figs and Hungarian pepper; and with maple caramelized pumpkin seeds and grapes.

The New York City health department didn't have specific rules on human breast milk products but they did ask the owner to stop selling or giving away the dishes. Co-owner Daniel Angerer said he got extreme reactions, both positive and negative.

Another New Yorker, Miriam Simun, made and served up breast milk cheeses as a university project. And here in Canada, a Toronto performance artist staged a piece called Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar with samples. The idea has backing from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). They've even urged Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream company to start replacing cow's milk with human breast milk.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: babygaga; barfalert; dairycows; napl; perversion; peta
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1 posted on 03/22/2011 9:37:42 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

I’ll take mine right from the source!


2 posted on 03/22/2011 9:39:21 PM PDT by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: smokingfrog

I’m just not comfortable with this product. Maybe it’s because cows are cleaner?


3 posted on 03/22/2011 9:39:30 PM PDT by Walts Ice Pick
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To: smokingfrog

I don’t know why it bothers me, but it does.


4 posted on 03/22/2011 9:40:00 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: smokingfrog

With a choice of cup size, no doubt.

It will be called “Mum’s Yum”.


5 posted on 03/22/2011 9:41:58 PM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: CaptainK

Apart from the ewww factor?

Probably because this represents commodifying human beings in the worst way.


6 posted on 03/22/2011 9:42:07 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: CaptainK

Perhaps because it is decadent and a bit sick.


7 posted on 03/22/2011 9:42:34 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: smokingfrog

What next, cheese made from breast milk.


8 posted on 03/22/2011 9:42:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: smokingfrog

PETA is beyond weird. They aren’t asking for humane treatment of animals; they are demanding that humans cease from any “use” of animals. This means animals for meat, fur, milk, burden carriers, or pets. Someone didn’t get the memo to the wild kingdom packed with predators and prey, to be sure, but consistency isn’t one of PETA’s strong points.

Anyhow, if public health laws require bovine milk offered for general sale to be screened or pasteurized (specialty raw milk aficionados aside), why not this stuff?


9 posted on 03/22/2011 9:44:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: CaptainK

I agree. This is creepy.


10 posted on 03/22/2011 9:44:07 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: smokingfrog
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11 posted on 03/22/2011 9:45:36 PM PDT by csense
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To: smokingfrog

For those who like their breast milk cold as a witch’s . . .


12 posted on 03/22/2011 9:46:04 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Army Air Corps

Yes. Read the rest of the story.


13 posted on 03/22/2011 9:47:20 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: Jonty30

That’s what it is.
Thank you.


14 posted on 03/22/2011 9:47:42 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: smokingfrog
For some reason, this strikes me as weird, decadent, and just another sign that Western society is crumbling. Kind of a "Fall of Rome, Part II".

I can just hear the whining in 20 years:

"Man, I really HATE this whole Sharia thing. IT SUCKS."

15 posted on 03/22/2011 9:48:52 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Walts Ice Pick

You have a point.

I would imagine the skankyest of women would be the likely source.


16 posted on 03/22/2011 9:49:28 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: smokingfrog

Oy veh.


17 posted on 03/22/2011 9:50:39 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: smokingfrog

I guess these weird postings appear at night. I think this idea shows how really degenerate the Brits have become with socialism.


18 posted on 03/22/2011 9:51:55 PM PDT by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: smokingfrog
Ben & Jerry's latest flavor, "Titti Fritti".

Leni

19 posted on 03/22/2011 9:51:59 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Obama....you'll have to pry my incandescent lightbulbs from my cold, dead fingers!)
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To: smokingfrog

You can bet your Obama that owner Matt O’Connor is a flaming liberal.


20 posted on 03/22/2011 9:52:11 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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