Mar 10
27
Breast Milk in the News
I’d like to consider myself a somewhat progressive thinker in a lot of areas. For example, I support diversity, I support gay marriage, the right to choose when it comes to abortions and what we do with our bodies, I believe in stem cell research, and I’m pretty much all around nonjudgmental when it comes to a lot of issues that would make a lot of people squeamish or simply get up on their high horse on a moral or ethical grounds. I’m a pretty open book that way.
However, when it comes to this story out of a trendy Chelsea neighborhood, I’m not so sure I’m as liberally minded as I thought. Apparently a chef at a Chelsea New York bistro got the idea in his head to make cheese out of his wife’s breast milk. His wife and him were new parents, and he blogged about how funny it would be if he made the cheese from his wife’s breast milk. Well, some people actually asked him to do it, so he ended up making the cheese.
It’s funny if I think about my distaste for this idea, and the cringe that it sends up my spine just even imagining what the cheese might taste like, what it’s texture might feel like in my mouth, and what it may look like even, especially since I’m an avid cheese eater of the cow and goat variety.
In fact, I love cheese! When I think about it coming form a human’s body though, that thought somehow makes me cringe at the thought of eating it. But why, I drink milk that comes from cows, so how is that different – it comes from a teet just like it does in a human?!
In other news that involves breast milk (hey, the mammaries have been in the news lately, what can I say?), a Kentucky woman supposedly has been charged with assaulting an officer because she squirted breast milk in the (female) officer’s face. The woman was arrested intoxicated, so I’m sure she was a classy lady to begin with. But is this considered assault? Really? I don’t see how a little breast milk in the face can be considered assault – besides maybe an assault on your pride…
