I recently read an interesting article called, “ ‘Don’t Have a Cow’: Dad Goes on All-Breast-Milk Diet. “ This article is about a blogger named Curtis, who is documenting an experimental diet about how long he can sustain a diet of only his wife’s breast milk. Curtis and his wife do have an infant daughter, but his wife is not longer breastfeeding and has a surplus of milk. Generally his wife donates her milk but she hadn't found a needy mother, so the milk remained untouched in the freezer. Thus Curtis sparked his idea for the breast milk diet. When reading this article I was a little disturbed mainly because I am a mother who breastfed, but the thought of someone other than my child drinking my breast milk is unimaginable. However I must admit Curtis made an interesting point he said “I mean, cow milk was made for baby cows, why not drink human breast milk that was made for baby humans.” I believe that this statement is valid. It would make perfect sense that we would drink milk from our own species. Personally I don’t like milk in general, but I have tasted my own breast milk and I must admit that it is a lot tastier than cow [milk]. However, the only problem is that breast milk can only sustain a human baby for so long therefore an adult human can definitely not be sustained by milk alone. Also the main component of breast milk is fat, which is why it is so nurturing for a baby. Clearly an adult male shouldn’t be on any diet that is mainly fat, unless he wants high cholesterol.
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