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Religious War - My Cheese Is Better Than Your Cheese
Just a brief note to point others to this nice post over on dKos:
A brief excerpt:
Man stands on a street corner, waiting for the light to change. Another man approaches.
"Excuse me, sir," he says politely to the light-waiting man.
"Yes?"
"How are you this fine morning?"
"I'm alright, I guess..."
"Well, I just wanted to take the opportunity to tell you about the Cheese I sell, and-"
"Oh, no thanks. I have my favorite type of Cheese already. But thanks." Very politely. And the man turns back to the lights.
"Oh," the other man says insistently. "But this is Cheddar Cheese, sir, what type of Cheese do you currently buy?"
Good bit of snark, and some decent discussion!
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I was really surprised
That no one there lapsed into the Monty Python cheese shop sketch dialog. Seems custom made for that, but anyway I am going to post the question here that I posted over there.
Why is it since we are human beings that we don't eat cheese made from human milk?
Wouldn't you think that would be the best thing for us? And while on this topic - in the movies (Look Who's Talking et al) you sometimes see a comedy bit where a man will pick up a glass of milk from the counter and begin drinking it at which point the nearby nursing mother will casually mention that he is drinking breast milk and he will promptly spit it out. The question is - why? Cows milk is meant for calves not for us. You can't tell me that milk from a cow is better nutritionally adapted for human consumption than human milk which is, after all, meant for a baby. Each of us has been a baby. None of us started life as a calf. And yet they spit it out like it was drain cleaner. It makes no sense at all.
Mother's Milk
I'm guessing that it's just a bit too immediate. We don't think of actually sucking a cow's teats when we drink milk, but human breast milk ... well, it smacks of something illicit, don't you think? The breasts of some other man's wife? And you standing there smacking your lips? Plus the leering afterward -- every man who passed her on the street saying "Got milk?"
I read an article not long back about a woman who worked to invent camel-milk cheese. Camel milk doesn't react to the cheese-making rennet as cow's or goat's milk does, so she had to tinker for quite some time to get the milk solids to coagulate (or whatever it does). In a strictly technical sense, it's possible human milk might present some similar challenge. But in a non-technical social sense, can you imagine human-milk cheese being a big seller?
Besides, what kind of breasts are we talking about getting the milk from in the first place? Are they the firm, perky, breasts of sweet Southern girls? Or the hay-bale-sized breasts of some huge Teutonic peasant who sang second Valkyrie in the local performance of Wagner's Ring Cycle? I think I'd want the cheese menu to state the source explicitly. I might even demand pictures.
And then there's the fact that you'd be eating solid matter that came from another human's body. Unless it's served with fava beans and a nice Chianti, count me out.
It wouldn't
It wouldn't be as efficient as getting it from moo cows. Just 2 nipples to go from...
That is true
I am thinking it would be more of a specialty item made from lactating women who sell their milk rather like some people sell their blood plasma. I am also curious if anyone anywhere has ever actually done this. I am not a cheesemaker (and thus am not blessed) so I don't even know if human milk has the right components for the cheesemaking process. Comparitive Mammalian Milk was an elective I never took. Just imagine what whale milk would be like. Now that would be some pretty hefty stuff. It would be like 500% milk.
whale milk
They make really high end ice cream out of whale milk. I saw some one posting on craigslist trying to get some so they could make whale milk ice cream in their bath tub to sell.
Do they milk them by diver?
And I would think it would be so rich you'd gain weight just by looking at it.
500% milk...
You gotta' think the OSHA specs regulating pumping one of them would likely nick the profitability.
-Col.
why don't we eat cheese made from human milk
It would be a human rights outrage if we treated women the way we treat animals.
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Now I know whyy...
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