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Me and my wife were actually joking the other day that at some point there's going to be a human milk industry. We envisioned something similar to the places yo
by war1025 7y ago
Me and my wife were actually joking the other day that at some point there's going to be a human milk industry. We envisioned something similar to the places you can go to sell your blood plasma.
There already is a network of sorts where lactating moms will donate milk to hospitals and mothers that can't nurse for whatever reason. [1]
[1] https://uichildrens.org/mothers-milk-bank-iowa https://uichildrens.org/mothers-milk-bank-iowa
- akubera 7y agoThere was that human-milk ice cream in the UK around 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gaga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gaga I don't know how well that turned out.
- germinalphrase 7y agoI am anecdotally aware that human milk for infants goes for $5/oz (which seems crazy when you tally up how much milk an infant can drink in a day).