While I agree that human milk is eminently better suited for humans than is
cow's milk, I don't see how taking children's food to put it into
confections that, strictly speaking, nobody actually needs in order to
survive, would be a good thing.  I see this PETA campaign as an eye-catcher
rather than a serious movement to replace a bovine milk-based confection
with a human milk-based one.  Yes, it's a problem that calves are deprived
of their natural food because we enslave their mothers and take ownership of
the secretions of their mammary glands, giving the mothers only animal feed
in return.  It's also a problem that some of this milk is turned into an
inferior food for human children whose mothers might have been capable of
providing them with their own milk, and at much lower cost.
The number of women needed to produce sufficient milk for a commercial ice
cream manufacturer is very very high, considering that the average lactating
woman produces about one liter per day, all of which is needed by her child,
and the average cow produces upwards of 20, some three times that. Guess the
price of ice cream would need to be adjusted too, but if it led to fewer
people consuming excessive amounts of a product we can survive better
without, then maybe it would be a good thing after all.  ??!
Interesting that the restaurant purportedly planning to use human milk on
the menu is in Switzerland, the home of the world's leading manufacturer of
breastmilk substitutes.  I'd like to know how the providers of milk to this
restaurant are planning to feed their own children - but actually I suspect
it is all a spoof.  I hope so.
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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