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Fonky_Fesh t1_izado0r wrote

Serious question: why don't we pasteurize and sell human milk?

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alexxerth t1_izae6t6 wrote

Cows are generally cheaper than humans, and it's easier to breed them and fill them with hormones to have them produce more milk.

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WrongSubFools t1_izafvjh wrote

Why would we pasteurize and sell human milk?!

Some people sell their breast milk on a small scale, yeah (and they usually dilute it with cow's milk, and the buyer is none the wiser), but if you're talking about doing it on mass scale, as a replacement for cow milk, that would be horrible. Take every issue people have with cow's milk and multiply it massively.

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Fonky_Fesh t1_izajbzo wrote

Why? Why is it SO bad?

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WrongSubFools t1_izap5ba wrote

People complain about how current milking practices are bad for animal welfare. Imagine how much worse it would be if put human women in six-by-two-foot pens hooked up to machines.

The alternative would be to just let the humans live normal lives and pump just a little milk when they can, but that would be hugely inefficient. That way, human milk would be no cheaper than breast milk is now, which is like 100 times as expensive as cow's milk and with no benefit.

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Fonky_Fesh t1_izavlr7 wrote

U srsly fucking think that human milk maids would be treated like farm animals?

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