At least it's not head cheese?

I'm pretty sure the slog has already trolled this exact breast milk story at least twice. EEEEEE! Breast milk, run for your lives! Cooties!

Got anything on pitbulls?

Reminds me of this:

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000…

Hey! Don't you guys ever read your own blog? I Slogged about breast milk cheese just three short years ago, at the first Freaky Friday (hey, when are you doing another one of those, anyways?): http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/brea…

I think I'll have the breast milk grilled cheese sandwich please.

I would eat it, but only if I could see a picture of the person, or people it came from. I’d imagine that a single block would take a cheese team to produce enough milk.

Why would anyone not eat breast milk cheese? Human milk is most natural thing for humans to eat.

re: the small font YouTube link, when your child can be interviewed on their feelings on breastfeeding, it's definitely gone too far.

re: the link..... WEIRD. I'd love to breastfeed longer than a year. But playing instruments, making drawings... and EATING LUNCH AT YOUR BOOB is just strange.

Sorry. Went all Lindy for a second.

it is pretty funny that we think cheese made out of cow's milk is more natural than cheese made out of human milk.

More work for wet nurses! How's that for a stimulus package!

it could be worse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8orUaCJ0…

But is it really hurting anyone?
Probably not, but let's get back to that kid at 14, 21, 28, etc. and find out.
I am honestly curious.

I think it's the same social taboo at work that prevents most people, except under conditions of the most supreme duress, from eating human flesh.

Cheese is CHEESE, people. Whether it comes from cow's milk, goat's milk, mother's milk, it's still basically the same thing. Same as meat. Beef, chicken, mutton, veal, lamb, or long pig, in the end there's no appreciable difference.

Not that I'm advocating cannibalism, mind you. But, if I'd survived a plane wreck in the Andes (or Rockies for that matter), and that's all there was between me and starvation, well, you do what you gotta do to survive, know what I mean?

What @9 said. That kid was like 15 years old.

I imagine I'll try it when the girlfriend and I have a kid, unless we adopt. But that shit would have to taste like bacon flavored beer and come with a handjob for me to try it more than once.

@12- Yes, HIV can be transmitted through breast milk.

There are many countries where kids self-wean, and this typically takes place at the age of 2-3. Kids breastfeeding at age 4-5 isn't uncommon.

Comparing humans with non-human primates, there are a number of factors you can look at, including weight compared to birth weight, weight compared to adult weight, whether or not any adult teeth have come in, and immune system maturity.

Long story short, depending on which metric you compare with primates, the natural age of weaning in humans is somewhere between 2-1/2 and 7 years of age.

@12,13 - There is this thing called pasteurization. And, the curdling process used to make cheese does a good job of killing pathogens too.

One study of HIV+ mothers in South Africa found that breasdtfeeding for 18 months increased the rate of infection of the infant by 12%. Another study in Africa found it increased the rate of infection by 15%.

In poor countries, this risk is balanced against the risk of the baby dying from contaminated water if infant formula is used. If the mother drinks slightly tainted water, her body can clean it and provide relatively safer milk, while if formula is mixed with unclean water, it can kill the baby. This is related to the opposition to pushing formula feeding in third world countries, and the famous boycott of Nestle in the late 70s.

It's a difficult choice between the two options for HIV+ moms in poor countries. But anyway, it demonstrates that while pathogen transmission in breast milk is possible, it is nothing like the risk of sharing needles or unprotected sex -- mostly the milk is free from viruses and other contaminants, but over a long time the risk adds up. And breast milk generally has pathogens and contaminants in the environment removed, not passed on to the baby.

Not that I would want cheese of any kind that wasn't pasteurized.

You can google all of this of course. It's well known.

I think you're missing the point.

If you are in an environment where pathogens or contaminates exist, and you simply don't have access to clean water, or can't move away from the contamination, then breastfeeding will reduce the exposure to infants. For example, if there is lead in the water the mother drinks, then there will be lead in breastmilk, but it will be less lead than you would have if the baby consumed formula made with the same water. Same with cholera bacteria or whatever.

That's all I'm saying. If you eat asparagus, your pee might smell bad, but breastmilk is not pee. The mechanism is different -- obviously infants are more vulnerable to toxins and germs than adults, and so it makes sense that we would evolve a mechanism to filter them out during the most vulnerable stages of development.

But if somebody offers you breastmilk cheese (not likely, but if they do... ) please feel free to decline. I don't care one way or the other whether or not anybody wants to eat hypothetical breastmilk cheese.

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