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> I am not against labels like "fake milk."

I agree, anything other than full fat human milk that is non-homogenized and unpasteurized, with no additives (vitamins or otherwise) should be labelled fake milk.



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


There was that human-milk ice cream in the UK around 2011:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gaga

I don't know how well that turned out.


I 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).


Call me an anarchist, but as long as it comes from a mammal I have no problem with it being labeled "milk".


I detect an anti-marsupial bias.


Marsupials are mammals.


Yep. Labeling things milk that resemble milk is not a recent trend and I think it's a shallow excuse for people to attack non-dairy milk. Those people have no problem with milk of magnesia, milkweed, or milk thistle.




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