Have you heard about the ice-cream parlour in London that started selling breastmilk ice-cream. After less than a week of trading the authorities have banned the sale of the ice-cream until it can be tested.
Do you think that breastmilk ice-cream is appropriate or hygienic to sell?
Breastmilk ice-cream banned
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- Posted Wed 02 Mar 2011 16:01Is it appropriate? Sure. The more aware the rest of the world is to breatmilk and breastfeeding the better i think. Would I go to an ice cream shop and buy these? No, probably not. Why? I could make my own and also I would wonder what else has been added, and would worry about the handling, etc. I breastfeed my son for as long as I could and did it for the benefits of the milk, but i knew what i was eating, which in turn is a big part of what was in my breastmilk.
It seems like a cool new idea, I just probly wouldn't buy into this one. - Posted Wed 02 Mar 2011 16:57Ok I just went and read a bit more on this and the story out of London. I agreed with it before and now after knowing a bit more on the other ingredients and the screening process I would be more inclined to try it. Although since I can make my own, (in the article it was fairly expensive) I would still do that.
It will be interesting to see what the tests and samples come back with.
We drink cow's milk, and most of us have no idea what the cows are eating, what hormones are being pumped into them and their stress levels which affect milk, and its barely questioned. Milk of course is tested and monitored before being sold to the customers, but exactly what they test for I'm unsure. Mr. O'Connor claims to have legit screening, and so if that screening process meets safety codes and is legit, and mothers want to buy this ice cream and serve it to thier children, then why not. Sure something could slip thru and make a child ill, no one wants that, but the same could be said for many of the things we cook, and chidlren put in their mouths.
Sorry this is a bit rambling. - Posted Wed 02 Mar 2011 17:32I'm with Megan. As long as it's properly screened for diseases etc, why not? I actually find breastmilk way too sweet, so I don't think I'd like it, but I don't have a problem with it. I eat cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk, so I don't see the problem with human breastmilk icecream. Women are much cleaner than cows!
- Posted Wed 02 Mar 2011 20:44I think it is quite inappropriate,and absolutely so. Just because you have breast milk banks does not mean we should commercialize breast milk in the form of ice cream. It is
actually disgusting. When people lack ideas on how to deal with their life challenges, they resort to cheap popularity.
If all the idea this fellow can come up to attract patronage to his business is the absurdity, then he is probably not worth patronizing.
Such ideas are retrogressive and do not advance humanity.
On the other hand, I do understand that many women and men are jobless due to the GFC and the present state of economy. But that does not mean they should be exploited.
This is fetishism, like prostitution and should be discouraged.
Thank you. - Posted Thu 03 Mar 2011 06:37
At least breastmilk is designed for HUMANS and the mother's aren't not all shot up with hormones and antibiotics.
Why do humans think its 'healthy to ingest food meant for baby COWS even after they grow up?
Stop being a baby and get your nutrition from adult foods. Learn to love almond, rice and other veg milks instead.
- Posted Thu 03 Mar 2011 12:47
JuliAbbott - I am just wondering why you think it is disgusting. Is it the fact that you think it's exploitation or do you think there is something disgusting about human breastmilk as opposed to, say, sheep's milk. And what is really wrong with being a commercial producer of breastmilk as a way to earn money? It's something that can be done at home, it has little in the way of overheads (a bit of extra food and a good pump) and doesn't require any particular skill or education. Expressing isn't easy unless you want to do it, so I don't see how someone could be exploited against their will.
I certainly don't think you can liken it to prostitution. No-one is having their physical person invaded. And even then, not all prostitutes are exploited. There are prostitutes with very good educations who do it because it's good money. - Posted Sun 06 Mar 2011 22:59I don't think it's something I'd want to try - ick.
Should it be banned? Nah, only if it's proven to be a health risk.
There's definitely an ethical issue though - if this is allowed, would it be okay for people to sell their blood for "human blood sausage"? Would it be okay for people to sell limbs as "human steaks"? In this crazy world of ours, they'd probably be a market!
Not sure where I stand on it, but it's an interesting thought!!!! - Posted Mon 07 Mar 2011 14:24You could maybe draw a vague analogy with human "black pudding", but not limbs! There are laws preventing the sale of human tissue, but breastmilk isn't tissue. It's not like it's an organ or something that could risk someone's health by donation. Even donating blood on the black market could easily be a health risk. Breastmilk is produced by the body in order for consumption - the moral question is who should consume it?
- Posted Mon 14 Mar 2011 00:59Wouldn't there be the same health risk with breastmilk and blood? Can't infection be passed through bm? Honestly asking, as I don't know!
Yes, there are laws about selling blood and human tissue - because there's been a market for it
I would have thought there would be issues about selling breastmilk too but maybe this hasn't been an issue in our modern society? Obviously there were wet nurses back when - is that still legal now? - Posted Wed 25 Jul 2012 11:23lol Am I the only one with a warped sense of humour and can see a line up of mothers instead of cows with milk pumps on their breasts and herded in at 4am in the morning?...lol
what a load of hoopla over a silly ridiculous fad that is neither here nor there on the scale of importance with breast feeding.
i think healthy women giving breast milk for premmie babies and poor health babies is a more generous and important resource for breast milk. instead of icecream.
they can freeze breast milk and send it to countries that require it for their ill and undernourished babies who have no hope of getting any milk from their deceased or ill mothers.
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