I watched the programme on TV last night with interest... 'Other People's Milk' I believe it was called. I might not have watched it, but something in the trailer caught my eye - it was the bit when a chap said that drinking milk from a cow was more bizarre than drinking milk from a human that engaged me. It reminded me of a campaign that was run by a vegan/vege group I am a subscriber too - more on that later.

With attachment in mind, I'm not sure how hot I am on the idea of breast feeding for many years after birth, but in principle if we are going to drink milk, then why shouldn't it be from a human. Let me start from somewhere else...

I believe we are the only species that drinks milk well beyond infancy. Perhaps strange in itself.

However, if we are going to drink milk well beyond infancy, it surely is more natural to drink the milk of a human and not of a cow/goat/sheep etc.

Thinking about the campaign mentioned earlier... the image for the campaign was a picture of a man in a suit with a brief case, lying in a field beneath a cow, attached to the udder, suckling. When it's put that like, you've got to agree that drinking cow's milk really is bizarre.

Personally I don't drink milk. Having been a vegetarian since I was 8 years old, I decided to try veganism a go a few years back. This didn't go terribly well because I adore cheese too much, but I have to say that my lack of will power still weighs heavily on my conscience. I am still vegetarian... a real vegetarian, in that I don't eat fish!! It's just the dairy products that I didn't do very well on. Anyway, back to my point... because I had given up dairy for a month or so while I gave this a go, I found that I couldn't actually go back to cow's milk - I find that it tastes (and smells) revolting now. It's just so fatty in comparison to soya milk. So that's where I'm at. I have soya milk, and have also stuck to soya yogurts and soya butter. I also go for vegan chocolate quite often, and about half my evening meals each week are vegan. It's just the cheese that comes from cows.

So, would I eat cheese made from human breast milk? Honestly?

Desite my argument for, I would find this quite bizarre. Something that comes into my head, is the thought of how it would be 'farmed' (which again makes me feel guilty for eating cheese and allowing the cows to go through it), but mostly I find this bizarre because I have been conditioned. Conditioned into thinking that cow's milk is natural and good, and that anything else would be strange. That's sad. Isn't it??