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by mrvc 5486 days ago
Wouldn't the best way be to use humans to make human milk?
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Ideally, yes. But all that does is add to the market for human flesh, and we don't need yet another section of the impoverished being milked (this time literally). Furthermore, a large swath of mothers have been trained by Nestle to distrust their own bodies, and instead buy formula. As sorry as it makes me, at least the profiteering in this method will provide correct nutrition for children.

I bought this yesterday because the author did an AMA on Reddit:

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Market-Brokers-Thieves-Traffickers...

It's not particularly difficult to find local milk share groups.
That may be better milk, but I doubt it's as affordable as this could be.
How so? To get milk, you need a (mostly) fully-carried pregnancy AND get the resulting baby not to consume the said milk. As far as cows are concerned, it's all-right as we eat veal meat but what are we going to do with human babies?

I agree, we could eat those.. But I don't think we are ready.. just yet.

Why the downvotes? He was just RTFM-ing me, which is fine as he's got a point.

"A woman can only act as a wet-nurse if she is lactating. It was once believed that a wet-nurse must have recently undergone childbirth. This is not necessarily true, as regular breast suckling can elicit lactation via a neural reflex of prolactin production and secretion. Some adoptive mothers have been able to establish lactation using a breast pump so that they could feed an adopted infant."

Sure; and we could harvest human hair to make wool etc. But we've been husbanding animals for 1,000,000 years to make stuff for us.