Why Are PEOPLE Squeamish About Human Breast Milk ??

Originally posted by AshleyD
The thought of having women attached to a machine to milk their breasts for someone else's profit is what bothers me.

Umm... Okay, I'm not advocating attaching women to "milking machines," per se. Although it would probably open up whole new vistas of pornographic opportunities.

But I just wonder why Americans, especially, were turned against breast feeding in favor of bovine secretions — especially bovine secretions heavily laden with animal-strength antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones.

I mean, even without manmade additives, cow's milk is hormonally intended to produce a 1200-lb adult animal, NOT a diminutive human being of under 200 lbs, ideally. Cow's milk is poison, essentially, to human beings.

— Doc Velocity



[edit on 3/10/2010 by Doc Velocity]

To answer the OP i would guess that the reason stems from survival... This is just my theory...

I believe that adult have an inbuilt instinct to be grossed out by stuff that is harmful to the species...

ok... hold on a second, I’m not saying that breast milk is harmful... let me explain...

When a woman give birth she starts to produce milk... this milk does not just miraculously appear from nowhere... the milk is produced by the body taping into the mothers calcium reserves. Most women build up these reserves over their childhood... However... these reserves are finite.

It has been said that some women in third world countries start to lose their teeth and have bone deficiencies, after having several children, due to the demand on their calcium reserves (at least that what i remember hearing somewhere)

So, i believe, in order to prevent women from sustaining severe calcium loss humans have a built in safety device that makes them naturally squeamish, with regards to breast milk, once they reach adulthood! This prevents the adults from literally sucking the mother dry!!

Hmm... does that make sense?? LOL - its just a theory of mine! Please feel free to correct me if I’ve just made a fool of myself




Oh... one other thing... while i agree that Breast is best (for babies) there also seems to be some strange movement against Cow’s milk for adults?!?!

That to me is crazy... to use the argument that cow’s milk is for cows and not designed for humans is a fine argument when applied to new born babies... but for adults??? it makes no sense!

Breast for baby... Cows for Mummy and Daddy!!!

Just my opinion


[edit on 10-3-2010 by Muckster]

When you say "for survival," that's the key. We do not need cow's milk for our survival. Never have needed it.

As near as anthropologists can tell, we humans never domesticated cattle until about 6000 years ago. In other words, we didn't drink cow's milk before 6000 years ago.

Human beings — modern homo sapiens — had already been alive and surviving for about 200,000 years before we ever domesticated animals and started "milking" them.

That's proof that animal milk is not essential to normal human growth.

Now, you can look at some of the very primitive tribes in Africa, the ones who are just barely surviving today, the ones who are starving in Africa today, and you will notice that they do drink milk. Like, water buffalo milk and cow's milk.

And it aint saving them. They're still starving.

In fact, some tribes of Africa sometimes mix milk with live, whole cattle blood, forming a gooey pink paste, which they eat raw.

That's because they're starving. But it aint saving them. That's because animal milk is a food of LAST RESORT.

Which brings up the consumption of animal blood for survival purposes... It's been done for thousands, hundreds of thousands of years by modern human beings, as a last resort.

The ancient Mongols, for example, while charging around Asia raiding villages for years at a time, often found themselves out in the middle of nowhere with no food. Whereupon they would open up a few veins on their horses and drink the blood as a LAST RESORT, just to keep them alive long enough to reach the next village.

Again, it was a LAST RESORT, but NOT a regular practice. Whole blood is NOT a terribly nutritious food source for human beings. You cannot live by drinking blood — I know a lot of vampire wanna-bees are pouting out there, but it's time to wake up, kids.

And cow's milk won't keep you alive, either. Try consuming nothing but cow's milk for about a month, and just see how healthy you are. You'll be heavily flatulent, squirting your guts out your rectum, your kidneys will be clogged and aching, and you'll have extremely painful calcium deposits at various points all over your skeleton.

"Well, how can a baby drink it, then, for so many months?"

Babies have extremely high metabolism, an accelerated rate of growth — they can metabolize a formula containing cow's milk for the first several months of life, along with lots of water and citrus juices, but they CANNOT survive on straight cow's milk. It would kill a baby, sure as hell.

That's proof, again, that cow's milk is toxic to human beings, except as a food of last resort, until you can locate a big, fat, juicy steak upon which to gnaw.

But I've never heard of anyone dying from sucking a woman's tits. Unless, of course, she's married to someone else.

— Doc Velocity

[edit on 3/10/2010 by Doc Velocity]

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No "one" particular food stuff is essential to human survival... You can take milk out of your diet and still be healthy... same as you can take Fish out of your diet and still be healthy.

That’s because a good diet is a balanced diet that doesn’t leave you dependent on any one food!

Of course you can’t survive off of milk alone... try living off just apples!! Sure... as part of a balanced diet they are good for you (same as milk)... but apples alone??

I believe that Bananas is one of the few foods which you can survive on alone... however even that will have detrimental affects!

People in third world countries often have access to rice... Saying that people who live in third world countries are still starving, even though they have milk, is no more proof that milk is bad for you than it is proof that rice is bad for you!

Also, saying that we didn’t drink milk 6,000 years ago doesn’t prove anything...
we didn’t eat Blue thin tuna 6,000 years ago... should we not eat tuna? People in Europe didn’t eat potatoes 6,000 years ago... should we not eat potatoes?

And the further back in time we go, the less varied our diet becomes.

None of this proves that milk is bad for you... in a court of law this "evidence" would be thrown out for being circumstantial at best!!

Like i said before... i have NO doubt that human milk is best for babies... But to say that cow’s milk is toxic is a very bold statement that is not being backed up by anything scientific... in my opinion...

But I've never heard of anyone dying from sucking a woman's tits. Unless, of course, she's married to someone else.

No... Neither have i... however, if you read my previous post you will see that i am not talking about the health implications of the recipient... rather the implications to the mother... Woman are NOT designed to feed Men with a fetish



[edit on 11-3-2010 by Muckster]

My personal theory as to way people (mainly westerners) find human breast milk repuslize is because women's breast have become associated with only sex. I am not an ultra feminist or anything like that, but sometimes I feel women are USUALLY seen as sexual objects, so that when we do something as natural as breast feed, or breast feed in public, it makes people uncomfortable. I wish it wasn't this way and I do think more people are starting to become comfortable with breast feeding, but we have a long way to go.

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I don't know why but everytime i have been caught trying to get it in the morning from my neighbor i end up having to go to jail and a judge tells me i cannot step foot on her property again. I argued the whole it's natural thing but it does not hold up in court. As a scientist i was offended.