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.
(Excerpt) Read more at edmontonjournal.com ...
I’ll take mine right from the source!
I’m just not comfortable with this product. Maybe it’s because cows are cleaner?
I don’t know why it bothers me, but it does.
With a choice of cup size, no doubt.
It will be called “Mum’s Yum”.
Apart from the ewww factor?
Probably because this represents commodifying human beings in the worst way.
Perhaps because it is decadent and a bit sick.
What next, cheese made from breast milk.
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?
I agree. This is creepy.
For those who like their breast milk cold as a witch’s . . .
Yes. Read the rest of the story.
That’s what it is.
Thank you.
I can just hear the whining in 20 years:
"Man, I really HATE this whole Sharia thing. IT SUCKS."
You have a point.
I would imagine the skankyest of women would be the likely source.
Oy veh.
I guess these weird postings appear at night. I think this idea shows how really degenerate the Brits have become with socialism.
Leni
You can bet your Obama that owner Matt O’Connor is a flaming liberal.
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