Why are we repulsed at the though to consuming human milk? (page 2)

Robdar

Good Lord, if the woman produces enough breast milk to make into cheese, buy her a bale of hay and sell her to the circus.

zoiks

Anyone remember that scene from Me Myself and Irene where Jim Carrey latches onto the breastfeeding woman, and gets a milk mustache? HA!

And yes, as palmtree mentioned, it is sweet...

fokyc

I am NOT repulsed

Human breast milk is lovely, so is Mare's milk when fermented (kymis).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis

Deceived

I heard that on a talk show this morning. I am a Huge advocate for feeding babies Breast milk. I belonged to the Le leche league. I breast fed 3 babies and one of them until he was 17 months old.

I was shocked at myself this morning when I was turned off when they were offering breast milk cheese as a snack. lol I have NO idea why I thought it was not appealing. Other than I guess I was thinking of it as needing to be tested for Aids or something. Don't know why it made me feel yucky and I would not eat cheese made from breast milk of a human. I am trying to figure it out but won't lose to much sleep over it heehee

daniel-p

I think it has more to do with viewing humans as a food product. Most people are fine with seeing certain animals as food products (depending on cultures, of course), but the only culture that views humans themselves as food products or producing a product are cannibals.