Would You Eat This Human Cheese Made with Human Breast Milk? [Food]

There is such thing as human cheese. How is it human? Well, er, it’s made out of the breast milk of girls. Human women. That’s not gross, right? It’s breast milk, it’s natural. Uh no, still gross. Would you eat it, though?

I don’t think i’d. Breast milk is for babies, when you clock enough time on the earth, you stop that shit. You erase it from your memory and overwrite it with thoughts of recent mammaries. You don’t turn it into cheese! Cheese is purported to be delicious, it’s not an appetizer for cannibalism. After this, will blood be the recent wine?

But then, you think that, maybe I can try it. Cause how natural is it to hijack milk from a cow and turn that into cheese. Human breast milk is as natural as it gets, in any case, that’s what most of us grew up with. It’s the lifeline of humanity, it’s the basis of our being. And, well, that’s sorta the explanation it was made.

Miriam Simun, a NYU student, started her cheese project to challenge the speculation of health, ethics, natural, biotechnology and basically every socially conditioned idea in our head. She asks:

If we reject all technologically modified food in favor of what is ‘natural,’ how far back to can we go? If we are determined to continue to enjoy our cheese, perhaps it’s most natural, ethical and healthy to eat human cheese?

Currently, there are three flavors: Sweet Airy Equity, that is mild and tough and made of a young mother of Chinese descent. Wisconsin Bang, a deliciously creamy cheese made with the milk of a sweet lawyer’s assistant who hails from Wisconsin. And City Funk, a stinky cheese from a reserved lady from Manhattan.

It all sounds so righteous but, no, I will be able to’t bring myself to do it. It’s too much. Organic, grass-fed, free-range, whatever, that’s my natural. Human breast milk, not so much. [ Miriam Simun via Metafilter via Serious Eats ]

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