All real milk is "breast" milk...

Now I know how to top my Soylent Green wafers. The meal just seemed incomplete.

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I agree with you Sugacan. It never fails to baffle me that people find it gross to drink human milk, while drinking the milk of another lactating animal is completely acceptable. Lets remember that cow's milk is biologically designed to meet the needs of a healthy baby calf....not a human. One of the only reasons that cow's milk is part of a healthy diet is because it is fortified with the vitamins and minerals we need, and all of the fat is removed (as in skim milk). Regardless of the point that this woman was trying to make, this story really irritated me. What bothers me most is that it is a complete waste of human milk. Breast milk is designed to meet the needs of growing babies, and there are plenty of babies out there who could have benefited from this milk! Babies that are in dire need of donated breastmilk are those born to HIV posititve mothers and preemies. They have human milk banks for the sole purpose of delivering this nutritious substance to babies in need. I guess I am confused about the point that this restaurant is trying to make. Yes, blood transfusions are a normal practice, however, the reason that they don't raise eyebrows is that they are performed when medically necessary. When human milk is used when medically necessary it does not raise eyebrows...hence the reason human milk banks exist. One of the likely reasons this experiment weirded people out is because breastmilk is being used out of context. Breastmilk's biological purpose is to provide the ultimate nutrition for babies, which is why our bodies only produce it during gestation. This experiment did nothing but contribute to the breastfeeding stigma, and take donated breastmilk away from infants in need.

Human milk is so thin that it's practically worthless for culinary purposes. It takes a good hour to extract enough breastmilk to feed a human newborn for a day. To make it into something as rich as cheese and try to feed adults, it would take an army of lactating women.

It's not just the quantity that is lacking; human milk isn't creamy. If you collect a gallon of raw cow's milk, you can skim several ladels of cream off the top. But if you express breastmilk into a 5-ounce bottle, there is literally only a 2-millimeter layer of cream on top. (That's probably half an hour of pumping, by the way.)

I've heard of women making paneer baby food out of breastmilk, but I can't imagine making anything richer out of it, like yogurt, let alone cheese! I always tested expressed breastmilk before giving it to my baby to make sure it wasn't spoiled (it doesn't develop the sour odor that cow's milk does, so a taste test is necessary) and it's very sweet and runny, sort of reminiscent of maple-flavored skim milk. I really don't think it's a good choice for making dairy products; it would be weak-flavored and labor-intensive.