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I always thought it was weird to be drinking the breast milk of another species.
by fmakunbound 7y ago
I always thought it was weird to be drinking the breast milk of another species.
- JTon 7y agoMore or less weird than eating the flesh of another species?
- fmakunbound 7y agoDefinately more weird. Apart from humans, do any other species drink milk from another species?
- JTon 7y agoA house cat has no qualms drinking cows milk when given the opportunity. I think the answer to your question reveals more about capabilities than it does about specific tastes.
- oh_sigh 7y agoCows have udders, not breasts. There is no breast milk besides for human that is frequently drank in the world.
- logfromblammo 7y agoIndeed. Far more reasonable to lick platypus mammary "sweat". If you think too hard about any kind of food, it can start to get weird. Like coffee. You're taking the fruit of some tropical plant, ripping off the berry-flesh part that it wants mammals to eat, taking the seed that it wants those mammals to poop out somewhere else, killing it with heat to produce different flavor molecules, crushing it to powder, then passing hot water or steam through the powder to leach out those flavor molecules, including the molecules that the plant uses as a defense against improper eating. On top of that, adding things like the fat skimmed off the mammary secretions of other species, highly processed molecules from a temperate grass modified to produce gigantic seeds full of starch, and crystals from the juice of pulverized stems of tropical grass. This is poured into a vessel formed from huge trees pulverized down to loose cellulose fibers and molecules created using organic reactions from crude petroleum, or maybe just those organic polymers, puffed up with air. It could be all that insane-sounding stuff, or it could just be a cup of coffee. It is sort of cool that humans can't digest grass, but they grow grass anyway, so they can feed it to animals that can digest grass and then turn it into proteins and nutrients that humans can harvest from the animal without killing it, and which is tastier and more nutritious than raw grass juice.