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by nakkiel 5486 days ago
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.
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lurker19 5486 days ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse
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nakkiel 5486 days ago
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."

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