This question popped into my head after an ADHD moment of deconstructing the concept that humans willingly drink cow milk on an industrial scale. Would you drink milk if it was human women pumping the milk themselves?
So many issues here… Is the harvesting consensual? Are children being deprived?
I mean I picture it like working at a factory. Clock in and start pumping. Also I picture it like certain dairy farms with how they wait for the calf to be fully weened before harvesting the rest, so children wouldn’t be being deprived.
Plus if they were being deprived finding more breast milk wouldn’t exactly be hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the primary concern would be women giving too much milk at work to meet quotas, followed by the risk of women giving too much to make money, not leaving enough for their own children. But breast milk will continue to be produced as long as it’s withdrawn, so there should be an ethical way to continue it.
You can buy breast milk in America.
I would rather get it straight from the jugs instead of out of a jug.
I’m picturing women in every work kitchen with their tits out and some tap-like contraption attached to each breast, just sitting there idling next to the coffee machine.
Like Mad Max: Fury Road.
I’m ngl I completely forgot milk banks existed but I was also meaning as more of a regular item in the dairy section of whatever grocer you frequent
Wow, look at the milk banks on her
Zhank you doctor
Imagine being like “hey I saw Mary today, got her milk to make a cake for tonight, it’s always a great one”
“Karen, I’m sorry, but I’d like to ask for my money back. This milk is so bitter…”
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Dunno. What’s it taste like?
It’s slightly thinner than cow milk but with a sweeter flavor. Like milk from a cereal bowl but as I said thinner.
And how do you know that, ThatWeirdGuy ?
from… uhm… a friend
You sucked your friends titties?
wouldn’t you like to know
wouldn’t i?
I stopped drinking milk in my twenties.
all milk comes from breasts
edit: oh, human breasts. no, as i’ve heard it tastes gross.
That’s a fair point lol
But as far as I’m aware when referring to non human breasts we rarely use that word.
Mammary glands, udders, and nipples are the three that pop into my head when thinking about animal titties. Which I’m realizing I’m doing a little too much of recently lmao
i suppose. i don’t think about them much.
That depends on how you define breasts. From Wikipedia:
The platypus’ mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.
Someone else already beat you to this
Nah it tastes fine. Too sweet for pouring over cereal though.
It’s not great, but that’s true of raw milk in general IME.
That’s the other thing: raw. I like the science behind pasteurization. I trust it.
Edit: I also find homogenization to be convenient
It tastes like 1% with added sugar.
I think the best description was it tastes like the milk from a bowl of honey nut Cheerios. It was very accurate to me.
Ironically I used a similar comparison in another comment as it’s a very good comparison.
I prefer a titties to table milk
ITT: All grown men drinking titty milk.
All milk is breast milk.
See this is one of my biggest issues with Lemmy. The pedantry.
I don’t know any person irl who wouldn’t know exactly what I mean when I say breast milk.
Because no one refers to any other milk as breast milk.
You know what? The four (4) of you are right. The crying baby picture was inappropriate. Maybe this one is better?
I’m upvoting only because of the dedication and pettiness.
Nice. I stumbled on that one on my phone earlier and thought it was funny.
I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?
TIL: Almonds have breasts
Almond milk isn’t milk.
Theres a lot of old anecdotal discussions about breast milk being good for bodybuilders/weightlifters despite no scientific evidence so Id be very keen to see a large scientific study on that. If you could manufacture it on an industrial scale Id probably drink it, you could never ethically collect it from human women on an industrial scale and pumping it themselves would be a definite nope.
The milk producer would have to be on a pretty clean diet for it to taste any good. Given that, and them being easy on the eyes, I’d rather have it straight from the source.
Nope. If you were to do something useful to it, though - like turning it into yoghurt or cheese - I might give it a try.
For the novelty. Especially if it comes from someone who is on dilaudid
What is that and what does it do?
Hydromorphone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydromorphone
It’s the bees’ knees
Probably not, I don’t even drink cows milk any more. Not because I’m vegan or anything like that, just purely for practical reasons. Cow milk goes off at the drop of a hat but I always manage to get through all my oat milk or almond milk without it turning.
Seriously, cows milk even pasteurized goes bad way too quickly since I only use it for coffee or cereal.
I assumed the only reason we don’t already is because of the ethical issues with subjecting human women to the practices that make bovine milk economical.
