If it’s acquired in fair and consensual circumstances, then I think it’s vegan. But breastmilk is made to nourish newborns and it wouldn’t be vegan for anyone but the newborn to consume most of the breastmilk
I agree. It’s the same with cows, the milk is produced for calves. And with humans the milk is produced for the newborns and contains a lot of important nutrients and such.
Oh that’s an interesting wrinkle. It’s vegan if consumed by the infant for whom it was made (or willingly donated).
What if I sell my milk to a body builder just so I have a little pocket money? Not an exorbitant amount of milk or money, and it’s something I willingly do without any coercion. Vegan then?
What if I sell my milk to a body builder just so I have a little pocket money?
As long as you’re doing it of your own free will without taking it away from your child, yes, probably. There is consent involved.
But if your breast milk gets mixed into a batch that was produced from selected specimens who produce extraordinarily high volume of milk, impregnated with their babies taken away, tied to machines and milked in filthy conditions, kept alive by being fed antibiotics every day… Yeah you get me.
Human milk could have potential to be more ethical than any other milk.
Hyperlactation happens in human beings, as well as another condition where lactation is locked as a permanent bodily function.
It can be extremely painful and regularly extracting the fluid is the best way to relieve the pressure. Medication can help but events where the lactation process re-emerged have happened.
Lactation can also be triggered without need for impregnation in humans.
I have no idea if that’s vegan or not, and honestly, no opinion on it’s veganitudiness, but I’m curious… Is this a thing? Do bodybuilders buy and consume human milk?
Some will because of street legends around breast milk being more protein rich and easy to assimilate than other proteins. Essentially false but keeping with the vein: the more brawn, the less brain.
If it’s acquired in fair and consensual circumstances, then I think it’s vegan. But breastmilk is made to nourish newborns and it wouldn’t be vegan for anyone but the newborn to consume most of the breastmilk
I agree. It’s the same with cows, the milk is produced for calves. And with humans the milk is produced for the newborns and contains a lot of important nutrients and such.
Oh that’s an interesting wrinkle. It’s vegan if consumed by the infant for whom it was made (or willingly donated).
What if I sell my milk to a body builder just so I have a little pocket money? Not an exorbitant amount of milk or money, and it’s something I willingly do without any coercion. Vegan then?
As long as you’re doing it of your own free will without taking it away from your child, yes, probably. There is consent involved.
But if your breast milk gets mixed into a batch that was produced from selected specimens who produce extraordinarily high volume of milk, impregnated with their babies taken away, tied to machines and milked in filthy conditions, kept alive by being fed antibiotics every day… Yeah you get me.
Human milk could have potential to be more ethical than any other milk.
Hyperlactation happens in human beings, as well as another condition where lactation is locked as a permanent bodily function.
It can be extremely painful and regularly extracting the fluid is the best way to relieve the pressure. Medication can help but events where the lactation process re-emerged have happened.
Lactation can also be triggered without need for impregnation in humans.
I have no idea if that’s vegan or not, and honestly, no opinion on it’s veganitudiness, but I’m curious… Is this a thing? Do bodybuilders buy and consume human milk?
Some will because of street legends around breast milk being more protein rich and easy to assimilate than other proteins. Essentially false but keeping with the vein: the more brawn, the less brain.
That is… Disturbing. It’s so easy to access information, why would you drink someone’s breast milk without doing the research first? >.<
It’s a strange concept to approach but there are worst things in the world.
Unless the drinker is allergic to milk, it’s safe. For a lactating woman it is also safe.
I can’t see any harm coming to the world by this practice.