Breast milk icecream?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MrsWembley]

That Feltz woman has just announced a topic for her show this lunchtime - is she really correct when she mentioned Mumsnet and women contributing their breast milk to a company who then use it to make icecream??? IABU to think this is a bit ? Really? Some people think this ok??

Ah, it all makes sense now.

This was done to death last week, check in media requests.

I read this in the Metro this morning, will be seriously looking into it! Apparently it's £15 for 10oz. Wouldn't buy the ice cream but don't see anything wrong with donating!

See here. Laughable mostly

Eeeew I'll be sticking to my Haagen Daas Baileys flavour thanks.

I would have thought teething babies would probably enjoy it.. :)

Ah, I've just posted about this in chat, before I saw this thread.

I also missed this being done in media requests. A bit slow off the mark, me, eh?!

Still, with second DC on the way soon, this could be a valuable little earner

Might as well just eat the Ice Cream thats made from rice milk for people with allergies, it will be cheaper and taste pretty much the same.

I'd only eat HBM ice cream for a bet.

wow £15 for 10oz!!

I missed a trick there - could have been a real money-spinner if I continued.

I once produced 500ml in one session for my DTs

Its how I got addicted to MN - sitting on the sofa with the expressing machine wedged in my bra and a laptop on my lap

oppps - mixing up my oz and my ml

Maybe not so lucrative afterall

I don't think it's that out there I used to give DS1 and 2 breast milk ice lollies in the summer when they were littler.

It's the bit she said about it being for adults that made me go a bit pale under the gills. I've looked through the original thread that followed the advert now (thanks Woo) and I can understand why so many thought it was a joke. I can also appreciate the posts about donating any spare to babies who really need it! I wonder how much these wankers businessmen are going to charge idiots customers for it. Judging by their website (of which only the home page is currently available but it says so much...) they will get away with it, selling something that all style and (well, in business language rather than real terms) no substance. Breast milk is for babies, not people with more money than sense. That's all folks, thanks for listening to the rant!!

I do agree that every spare bit should be donated for prem babies though.

Think I'm gonna puke.

It always tickles me a bit that people think it's perfectly ok to drink bovine milk -I'm mean, come on, it comes out of a cow) but not human

I mean, if it's going to get pasteurised and homogenised like the cow stuff, why does the majority of people find it disgusting?

I mean ,I'm NOT mean

twilight3 i take your point, but I'd say it's for similar reasons as one might enjoy the odd omelette, but wouldn't be jumping at the chance to eat harvested human caviar.

eating human caviar is surely a fomr of cannibalism though... I would think...

and to be honest I keep my own chickens without a roo because I find the idea of eating fertilised eggs yucky

Businessman explaining himself on Vanessa now (Radio 2).

Ugh

This was just featured on BBC news. Lots of interviews with people looking dissapproving. The reporter tried it and pronounced it just like normal ice cream, but pricey £15 for a scoop. All produced by a woman in Leeds.

Just found this thread. Wonder if mrsgordonfreeman is in Leeds???

Think the ice creamists are just doing this for publicity pure and simple though. Seems to be working too.

Sorry to hijack but Stretch did you just express and freeze it in the little ice lolly moulds? I wonder if it'll help DS with teething...

I reckon breast milk would be ideal for ice cream, being sweeter and all.

Didn't realise there was a demand for donating to premature babies either - off to google that - sure I could spare the odd pint.

I wouldn't fancy it myself, although there's no sensible reason why.

It would be nice to 'earn' £15 per 10oz, but I'd rather stick with my original plan of expressing for a milk bank or to donate to an NICU, especially having had a child in NICu and knowing how hard keeping up expressing was, so I understand why some Mum's give up.

Eew, can't stand Feltz, awful woman. Heard her trying to be Jeremy Vine earlier, laughable.

Anyway, breast milk ice cream,yuck. But when you think about it, cows milk is 'breast milk' from a whole other species, now that is pretty tuck too! In fact, should be more yuck than our own.