Originally posted by bodrul

i am thinking to my self
how would they extract the Milk?

the good old hands doing it the way of the cows
or by pumps

I'm sure everyone is familiar with a breast pump.



There are numerous models on the market and the one pictured above is a simple manual version no more complicated than a turkey baster. There are also electric pumps that have two attachments so that milk can be expressed from both breast simultaneously.

Even the milk you get from cows is no longer extracted manually. A four teat vacuum pump is used on all modern dairy cows.
I'm sure there would be plenty of men willing to do the job manually though if a human female was involved.


Let's face it, human milk is probably much healthier for us than something from another species.

I'll have the fettuccine with cream sauce please.

I'd go for that - especially if I knew that the woman who provided the milk was a picture of good health -non smoker, good eater and a few glasses of red wine every other day to add to the flavour!

It's a bit of a gimmick but it's a good talking point for a nice meal - wouldn't it be weird if when you complemented the waitress she informed you it was her milk!

lol, great replies.

What I am wondering is where is all this milk going to come from? I thought a mother's milk was meant for their babies? So now women are going to get pregnant so they can sell their breast milk? Won't this increase abortions like whoa?

This could give a whole new meaning to the "Hooters" restaurant chain.

"Would you like cream in your coffee sir ?"
"Oh yes please."

Squirt........

Yea doesn't anyone find it strange that breast milk isn't marketed? I mean really, it is milk designed for feeding our youth. We drink milk from a cow, but we find it disgusting to drink human milk?

I wonder if they could homogenize breast milk? It seriously is the natural logical substance humans should consume right?

Envisioning the server coming around with the pepper mill then popping one out

I would want certification that the women providing the milk were completely disease free. You never know...
But then, after FDA gets its hands on it and applies its regulations there will be no nutrition left in the milk to make it worth the price. All the processes it will undergo will strip the nutritional value and probably add chemicals and preservatives, and diners will be paying a higher price for nasty watered down milk with whipped cream added- no thanks.

I admit, I'm grossed out by the concept anyway.

Trying to wrap my brain around this and figure out WHY????
I mean, yes I'm female, I breast fed all my kids..for an average of 18 months each..(If you knew me..THAT"S A LOT!)
To tell you the truth I was overjoyed to STOP.
You begin to feel like a cow even though you know it's benefiting your own child.
I cannot imagine any woman doing this for food to be served to other people.
Too much of an EEWWW factor there.
And what about the reaction of the husbands and families of these women?
How can that husband brag about his wife?
"Heck ya..she's real tasty tonight..I tell ya!"

Originally posted by Givenmay

Breast milk does taste pretty good! lol

I believe it's not as fattening...kinda watery!

I've tasted it to, and in the first month or so after birth it is very watery and more like weak 1% cows milk, (it's almost blue.)
The longer the mother lactates it takes on more full body texture with more proteins and fats.

I lived with two breastfeeding woman for a while and if there was a little bottle of expressed milk in the fridge, but no Carnation Milk, guess what you put in your morning tea ?



EDIT: I just want to correct a misconception running in this thread.

Any female mammal will continue to produce milk for many years as long as the milk is expressed on a regular basis. In many cultures woman breast feed children to the age of three or four. Many of those having more than one starting while they wean the oldest.
Wet nurses can go from child to child as their services are required and continuously lactate for decades.

It's when mammals wean their young to other foods and reduce milk demand is when production drops and they dry up.




[edit on 19/9/2008 by anxietydisorder]