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    'Totally natural' human breast milk ice cream on sale in London

    Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): A shop in London is selling ice cream containing human breast milk.

    The shop in Covent Garden used milk donated by a UK mom to make the "totally natural" treat.

    According to UK website Parentdish, Victoria Hiley, 35, a mother of one from Leeds in northern England, has already donated a liter of her breast milk to Icecreamists parlor for the dish it calls Baby Gaga.

    "What's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?" Fox News quoted Hiley as saying, who responded to an advert for milk suppliers on another parenting website, Mumsnet.

    "What could be more natural than fresh, free-range mother's milk in an ice cream?"

    The new parlor pays 15 pounds (24 dollars) for every 10 ounces of milk and has already had 15 mothers become donors. Each lactating woman undergoes the same health checks used by the UK's National Health Service to screen blood donors.

    Matt O'Connor, 44, who runs Icecreamists, makes the dish by blending the breast milk with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest.

    "No-one's done anything interesting with ice cream in the last hundred years," he said.

    "Some people will hear about it and go, 'yuck,' but actually it's pure, organic, free-range and totally natural," he added. (ANI)

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    • Endorphins  •  1 year 2 months ago
      I just wish that this mother had sold her breast milk to mothers who are lack of sufficient supply, yet are desperate to keep their babies healthy, e.g,...sickly or premature babies, etc, rather than making into ice-creams where no one would really appreciate it. I would NOT either. Besides, all the precious nutrients and antibodies will probably be lost by the time it’s been processed into ice-creams and seated over the counters. What a real waste.

      We all know that breast milk contains antibodies and also the optimum combination of nutrients a newborn needs. If you have your own children and love them deeply, you wouldn’t even consider cow’s milk. However, it’s true that not all lactating mothers could have enough supply. If you really take a walk at KK hospital, you will discover that there are a lot of sickly babies and young children being warded, it’s a very heart-wrecking, pitiful sight to see babies suffer, and such babies should be exclusively breastfed as much as possible.

      I personally feel that if any mothers realize that they have abundance of milk supply, they could sell/donate their excessive milk to such cases; they could save these babies’ lives. Of course the hospitals should send these mothers to stringent health checks and tests, to ensure they are in absolute healthy condition to disseminate their breast milk to other warded babies. Just my two-cents worth:) In fact, I hope that the hospitals to consider this option seriously...
      • W 1 year 2 months ago
        The hospitals in Singapore do not accept milk donations because of many medical issues involved which can be rather complicated. The only way one who has excess can "donate" is by approaching the needy mom or by word of mouth, all based on TRUST. I myself have donated hundreds of bottles of milk but only to a friend who has stopped lactating and regretted as her baby couldn't accept commercial milk.

        I can totally understand the heart pain of moms who can't produce enough as I was there once when for many weeks, my body didn't know my baby had arrived prematurely (hormones tested) and thus produced no milk especially during when my baby needed it the most being a premie.

        I too wish the ministry can give more options to needy babies but it's a long shot still as you can tell by how most of the population who's not exposed to the knowledge of breastfeeding reacts to this topic. Progress in this case can only be through continuous education of the masses.
      • Endorphins 1 year 2 months ago
        That is a very magnanimous and thoughtful gesture of yours, to donate your breast milk to your friend, for her baby’s consumption, considering that it is rather time-consuming and tedious to express, store and even transport the milk.

        Some of my girlfriends find breastfeeding so troublesome that they gave up nursing their newborns; they choose their beauty sleep (not that they did not lactate), over their babies’ health and well-being:( It is indeed a lot easier to get the maid to scoop some formula powder in a bottle, shake it, and shove it into the baby’s mouth, especially at night, and the mother continues her sleep. Opinion does differ, and every mother has their freedom to choose their preferred nursing method. I breastfed all my children so I know it’s tough work, but to me, it’s a happy chore too. So Agnes, you did a great job by donating your milk:)

        I hope mothers who find themselves producing excessive milk practice what you did. As long as the lactating mother is healthy, drinking breast milk is inarguably a lot beneficial for babies, and the undeniable advantages heavily out-weights the disadvantages (if any).
    • Melissa Phillips  •  1 year 2 months ago
      It would be beautiful if instead they gave it to neonatal babies whose mothers aren't able to produce their own milk. There are facilities established for just this purpose.
      • cutefidget 1 year 2 months ago
        those are indeed for altruistic women who want to donate their milk for a good purpose. making icecream, however, is a strictly commercial activity and these women are actually being paid to give (not truly donate!) their milk
    • W  •  1 year 2 months ago
      It's strange that people "eewww ... " at drinking or eating human's milk products when it's supposed to be the most natural thing. Instead, they think that drinking cow's/goat's/horse's milk is ok when nature had meant it to be for the respective animals' babies. Go figure.
      • Muhammad 1 year 2 months ago
        aye agnes,dont step intellectual and all liberal here ok. drinking animal'smilk is the natural thing because animals are meant to be of use to us as stated the religious books. thats because they are not part of a society and neither do they have the ability to think like how humans are.

        taking part and supporting this breast milk ice cream will only bring further harm to our already degenerating human race. so stop it with your open to everything ideals and think properly for yourself for once instead of trying to be so hard to be a liberal.
      • W 1 year 2 months ago
        to be honest, no one should 'try so hard to be liberal'. if you have lived your life being intolerant to animal's milk products, then you'll appreciate what God has in place for us. Human's milk is the BEST THING EVER CREATED by God for us! I can't believe you honestly think that you or your child is better off drinking some other animal's milk. So totally uneducated about the goodness of human's milk.

        Religious books would tell mothers to put the child at your breast ... not the cow's breast ... stupid thoughts.

        Humans degenerating and breastmilk ... absolutely nothing to do with each other. A woman's breasts were created by God for the baby, not perversion of men! Men's mind are polluted with sexual thoughts that's why they can't think on a higher level.
      • RICH ! 1 year 2 months ago
        dun worry about this STUPIG MUHAMMAD, I fully support u ,AGNES , what u said is correct !!!!!!!!!!!!!
        (but not the last line , my dear,not all males r like that)
    • Madeline Denvour  •  1 year 2 months ago
      i know that a mother's milk is essential and very nutritious for her young...not just any milk like cows' milk and goats'...but it somehow feels wrong to eat ice cream made of human milk... @_@ they should give it to babies who need them instead of making ice cream out of the milk...i guess that the milk would have lost lots of nutritions in the process of turning the milk into ice cream...its kinda wasteful if its so...
      • lupus 1 year 2 months ago
        I totally agree with you.
    • Gurinji  •  1 year 2 months ago
      reading all the comments here... i feel so frightened... what is the world coming to?!!!!
    • Shajedur  •  1 year 2 months ago
      I don't know why people are disturbed with it. How many guys have ever wanted to suck between the legs of a cow rather than a woman's breast?
      • Muhammad 1 year 2 months ago
        because its just morally wrong, stupid.
      • Very Funny 1 year 2 months ago
        It's morally wrong??? Says who?
      • W 1 year 2 months ago
        because they might shitted on while sucking a cow? not an exactly pleasant experience . . . haha
    • BC  •  1 year 2 months ago
      Some may accept it and some may not. But i would like this to be viewed with an open mind. I have friends whom would just drank up the remaining milk that were pumped out from their wife. This happened as and when there were over flow of supply. And indeed, it is much healthier than the milk selling in the commercial market.
    • Jason  •  1 year 2 months ago
      There is morally nothing wrong with making ice-cream out of breast milk. However, it is not "organic, natural and free-range" as the seller claims. Milk (cow or human) is produced by the body using nutrients from the substances consumed. I think cows & sheep have a much more "organic, natural and free-range" diet than humans, since they are by and large herbivorous and their diets are limited. Humans eat all sorts of rubbish and there is a high chance of alcohol being present as well.
    • Podehi  •  1 year 2 months ago
      Nowadays babies are thrown away and mothers' milk is made into ice creams. Life is like a mean machine!
    • Rahimah  •  1 year 2 months ago
      tak boleh ni klu masyarakat islam ni..ibu susuan..haram weh kan?kte bukan tau mane 1 ibu yg mane! haishhh
    • Encik Farid  •  1 year 2 months ago
      more chances got AIDS....
    • Abd  •  1 year 2 months ago
      This is something new. As a Muslim, as I understand it, two babies breast fed by the same mother cannot marry. Can this be categorised as such?
    • Renu  •  1 year 2 months ago
      I think its better to encourage mothers to feed thier babies with breast milk,which is a best source of nutrients for them, rather than making it a business.
    • ALi  •  1 year 2 months ago
      LOL!!!
      everyone seem so noble, for guys, what if the milk is from yr favourite pop star or porn star, bet u will lick till the very last of the ice cream..HAHAAHA
      i wont mind to have a try, since everyone gotta die one day
    • concern  •  1 year 2 months ago
      There are babies out there who are in need of Mother's milk for one reason or another. why not contribute to these needy babies. Isn't that a much more worthy cause to contribute to.
    • JK  •  1 year 2 months ago
      I prefer having ice cream on a natural breast
    • What  •  1 year 2 months ago
      To those people who said "yucks", oh please. It is only breast milk, not semen. Breast milk can be consumed! You probably had breast milk when you were a baby so what's the big deal?
    • Eve Zuraidah  •  1 year 2 months ago
      What A joke... Please lah. A drop of breast milk if left over night will turn brownish or dark brown, forming into blood stain... This already shows it contain DNA or blood cell... Then what, whoever eat the ice-cream all of them will hv mix DNA and eventually will become brother/sister... Then one day they got married unknowingly that they eat the same kind of ice-cream... What happen next!!! Having babies which den turn out to be not normal... Crazy...
    • Amin Harun  •  1 year 2 months ago
      what a heck! sorry muslim..3 times u 'burpppp!' after ate that ice cream..she then become your mom..!
    • Blacky_Ho  •  1 year 2 months ago
      If that supposed to be delicious, then what about urine drink! this should taste like lemon juice when sugar is added to it... oh wait.... since you talk about nutrition and freshness... man sperm could is the most world known with it's complete ingredients wow man that should be added to cakes as cream wow vanilla and yummy
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