So, today, as searching the web, I happened to stumble upon the topic of breast milk ice cream. A London ice cream parlor called Icecreamists has come out selling exactly what it sounds like, ice cream made from women's breast milk. According to a reporter of NY Daily News, "at least 15 mothers have volunteered to donate their breast milk." The stuff does not come cheap either, selling for a whopping $23 per serving.
Before you are overwhelmed with disgust, consider the arguement of Mirium Simun, a New York designer interested in sustainable food systems and the human body, who debuted a line of breast milk cheese. "Why is cow or goat milk not disgusting? Vegans tend to get this pretty quickly," she said. "And if it is disgusting - well, does that mean we should start thinking differently about all the other ways we use the human body - to make wigs, to transfuse blood, to be surrogate mothers?"
Despite what you may think, it may be worth the adventure... but Lady Gaga will have none of it. Gaga and her team are threating to sue Icecreamists for using part of her name to sell their unusual frozen treat. Gaga's attorney sent a letter to the London shop asking them to remove the 'Gaga' from the name of the ice cream, adding a personal touch as he called their concoction "deliberately provocative and, to many people, nausea-inducing."
Icreamist owner Matt O'Connor is sure he will eventually win the battle against Lady Gaga, and claims that they got the name not from her, but from the reference of one of the first discernable phrases that comes out of a baby's mouth. And to counter Gaga's last attack, O'Connor responds, "As for her assertion that our product is distasteful, perhaps she should reflect on her blood-spurting performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, or the fact she wears clothes fabricated from the flesh of dead animals.
This is going to be quite a battle, and I'll keep my eye out for who comes out on top. In the mean time, I think I will personally be staying away from any breast milk icecream. But hey, all power to you if you have the guts to try it, or find a place that sells it at that.
If you are interested, please visit these sites to learn more. They really are very interesting!
Article about Gaga's lawsuit
Article about Baby Gaga ice cream
The official blog of the Icrecreamists <---- This one is particularly intriguing! Please take a look :)
Now I'm not going to go eat any of that soon, but it does raise a very interesting point about why is it disgusting if it comes from a human and not an animal. I suppose there's many reasons, but when we get milk, we are so removed from the process that we never think of exactly where it comes from, but when some does tell us where our food comes from it can be disturbing.
ReplyDelete-- Eric
gross.
ReplyDeleteall i have to say.
gross.
-Zach