I was listening to a (Ricky Gervais?) podcast last week and it was talking about Room 102 - where you would put everything that you loathed. It would disappear from the planet. One of the items mentioned was people who make desserts from their breast milk and offered them to their friends, neighbours and acquaintances. Well, I'm not sure if this is a case of life imitating art, but there are apparently calls by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to have Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream made from the milk from nursing mothers - rather than milk from cows. Hmmmm. Of course, the idea may not be fresh. Storchen, a Swiss restaurant, earlier announced that it would be providing a menu with soups, stews and sauces based on human milk - thereby replacing 75% of its current daily dairy servings.
It is an intriguing idea - and one which raises lots of questions about collection, nutrition, quality control and sustainability.
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after my initial gag reflex upon reading your milk blog, I am absolutely sure now that I am repulsed by that particular story. I am having flashbacks to Rose of Sharon and her insane offer of breast milk to a complete, adult, stranger. ewwwwww
AND there goes eating in non dairy swiss restaurants out the door too!
An explanatory note courtesy of Wikipedia about Rose of Sharon - a character in "The Grapes of Wrath"": Rose of Sharon Rivers ("Rosasharn") — childish and dreamy teenage daughter who develops as the novel progresses to become a mature woman. She symbolizes regrowth when she helps the starving stranger (see also Roman Charity, works of art based on the legend of a daughter as wet nurse to a dying father). Pregnant in the beginning of the novel, she delivers a stillborn baby, probably as a result of malnutrition.
Kazbah (posing as Anonymous)
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