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Offline samijoe

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found this rather interesting........
« on: September 26, 2008, 17:40:05 pm »
hope no one has posted this yet.....i looked around but didn't see anything.  also, mods, feel free to move if i'm in the wrong spot.



http://www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail.html


anybody see this today??




what do you all think about it??



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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2008, 17:50:21 pm »
That is hilarious! Think of the quantities you would need to produce the milk!!! I say if anyone has that much going spare PUT IT IN A MILK BANK. Preemies need it more than ice-cream lovers!!!!!

I'm going to assume a crazy publicity stunt to bring attention to issues and not a serious suggestion.
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2008, 18:19:59 pm »
LOL!!!! I agree Emma, breast milk is for babies, and all those preemies would benefit much more, and I cant imagine many people being keen to consume others breastmilk or is that just me lol.

Seems like an april fools day joke lol!
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2008, 20:35:41 pm »
Stacy you crack me up lol!

Seriously, I spend FAR too much time with my pump as it is lol!  Can you imagine all those mothers in third world countries sat hooked up to hospital grade pumps just so their family can eat?  Crikey, the mind boggles!  And that's not even considering the fact that HIV and other nasties can be passed on through breast milk...

Great idea in theory but it would never, ever work!  Certainly an entertaining read though :P
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2008, 21:55:40 pm »
ummmm i read the article and burst out laughing.

this is the funniest thing i have heard in a long time. i am sure there are alot of grown people out there would seriously gag at the thought of consuming a strangers breastmilk that was ultimatly intended for a baby.

I mean seriously, what else are people going to come up with? will wonders never cease.

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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2008, 00:30:23 am »
This has got to be, as Emma supposes, not a serious request but simply a ploy to bring attention to issues.

FWIW, DH once tried to make ice cream from my milk, and it was awful.  Have I mentioned how weird my DH can be? ::)

I think industrial dairy cows produce about 8 gallons of milk in a day.  We'd have to feed human women some wicked doses of hormones to get even a quarter of that!
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2008, 18:58:05 pm »
Quote from: Lilah'sMommy on September 27, 2008, 00:30:23 am
FWIW, DH once tried to make ice cream from my milk, and it was awful.  Have I mentioned how weird my DH can be? ::)

I busted out laughing at that!  Too funny!
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2008, 19:34:03 pm »
 :-X

My local pharmacy will buy bm from you and put it in their face creams. Not really too sure about that either. I mean, my own's one thing but somebody elses? Ick.
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2008, 17:06:54 pm »
EWWWW!!  Breastmilk face cream?  Isn't that illegal anyway, trafficking in human fluids?  Guess it depends where you live.

What a stunt for PETA to pull, not likely to make them very popular with BF advocates.  Personally I told DH it would be GREAT if the world had enough BM left over for stuff like ice cream - AFTER all the preemies and lo's whose moms can't produce have had their fill.
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2008, 17:51:33 pm »
trafficking in human fluids >>>> LOL
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2008, 18:06:38 pm »
OK, here goes:

Cows' milk is primarily for baby cows. We eat it anyway, but one reason so many people have a hard time digesting it is because we're not baby cows, AND WE'RE NOT BABY ANYTHINGS! :)

Human milk is for baby humans. Nobody here on this board IS a baby human.

Milk is nice, and if you can consume it without digestive issues, I'm jealous of you. (I LOOOOOVE ice cream, just not the results. :P  :-X)

I also don't relish the idea of eating ice creammade from the breast milk of women selling it because they already don't make enough money otherwise to eat healthy diets.  :-\ Kind of defeats the purpose of switching from cows' milk for me.

JMHO.....
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2008, 19:35:16 pm »
i'm still slightly yucked out i think......



lol

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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2008, 16:08:04 pm »
I think there would be a lot of legal issues, having to do with screening of the donors (like you do when you pay for blood donations, etc).  With cows, there is a certain amount of regulation regarding what they ingest, so those of us who drink cow's milk don't get medications and (hopefully!) extra hormones or whatever. I just can't see it being possible to regulate. Plus, hard to get the amounts necessary, and I definitely think that milk banks, preemies, would be much better recipients of the extra milk, as already suggested/

That said...in terms of the "ick" factor....well, if this became a common practice, maybe it'd be less icky...
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2008, 19:54:47 pm »
hmm..shocked about the cows welfare...didnt know they were purposefully kept pregnant like that..BUT there certainly would be alot of issues surrounding it and obviously it would be a whole new ethical arguement over human rights...

It must be a publicity stunt!  ::)
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Re: found this rather interesting........
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2008, 04:11:43 am »
Ok, my boobs hurt just reading about it!   :o :o :o
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