Human milk is only “organic” in a very lay sense of the term – a person isn’t (necessarily) an animal that has been kept additive- and GMO-free for several years, so it’s doubtful that human milk would qualify as USDA organic.

Beyond that, Yuka’s comparison between human breast milk and factory farmed milk is a pretty classic false dichotomy – I wouldn’t drink that filthy shit either, thanks very much, but the reasons why I wouldn’t consume human milk are very different.

The fact that people are so bothered by adult consumption of breast milk deserves exploration and respect. We have taboos against incest, too; we don’t go through the set of rational arguments against it and conclude that on the balance we won’t mate with our siblings, we just find ourselves averse to the idea. And there are sound evolutionary reasons for this.

Something similar may be going on here: breast milk, if it’s “for” anything, is for babies. Adults may have an evolved aversion to consuming it because it would decrease the sustenance available for infants in the community. Consuming breast milk may be deeply disfiguring of what for lack of a better word I’ll call “human nature”.

The thought of a bunch of privileged people tittering and (loudly, attention-grabbingly) asking rhetorical questions about what on earth is wrong with eating human milk product is also kind of sick-making.

And while we’re on the subject: People aren’t cows. With the exception of infants, we don’t eat things that come from people. God help us all if the posh set gets a taste for “Mommy cheese”; the poor mothers of American may find themselves the recipients of the indecent proposal that they sell their milk to meet the demand…