Looking at the above attached picture, one may not even see the difference from those sold around Singapore. Unfortunately, i will not comment on such normality unless these ice-cream are made from human breast milk. Yes, i am serious, human breast milk.

The article is as followed:
..Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): A shop in London is selling ice cream containing human breast milk.

The shop in Covent Garden used milk donated by a UK mom to make the "totally natural" treat.

According to UK website Parentdish, Victoria Hiley, 35, a mother of one from Leeds in northern England, has already donated a liter of her breast milk to Icecreamists parlor for the dish it calls Baby Gaga.

"What's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?" Fox News quoted Hiley as saying, who responded to an advert for milk suppliers on another parenting website, Mumsnet.

"What could be more natural than fresh, free-range mother's milk in an ice cream?"

The new parlor pays 15 pounds (24 dollars) for every 10 ounces of milk and has already had 15 mothers become donors. Each lactating woman undergoes the same health checks used by the UK's National Health Service to screen blood donors.

Matt O'Connor, 44, who runs Icecreamists, makes the dish by blending the breast milk with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest.

"No-one's done anything interesting with ice cream in the last hundred years," he said.

"Some people will hear about it and go, 'yuck,' but actually it's pure, organic, free-range and totally natural," he added. (ANI)
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Upon reading this piece of short article, i have unconsciously stepped into my ring of anger and boom! May the rage unleash! I have flourish this article(figuratively) to many of friends, forcing them to read this article. Surprisingly, the feedback i obtained is not what i have expected from a group of closely-knitted friends whom i always thought are conservative.

Yes, they exclaimed that it was perfectly fine.

True, the article did provide a glimpse that such trade from a willing mother providing 100% natural milk are ''normal''. I mean, people have been hoping for more natural food, looking into 100% freshness in the diary products that they bought, and you are right! Entered a mum who thinks that her breast milk can satisfy consumers' want, in exchange for some money.

But what i would hope the readers can sympathise with me are the moral decay that is going on silently behind this veil of milk trading. To many people, it may seem fine. But to me, i cant help but to express that it is purely grotesquely WTRONG! Let me explain why!

Human breast milk is produced naturally. Under the influence of the hormones prolactin and oxytocin, women produce milk after childbirth to feed the baby. This form of milk provide nutrients necessary for the healthy development of the baby. To me, breastfeeding is a sacred process and its balance should not be disturbed. Which means using the breast milk to sell. What will the social ramifications be if everyone thinks that there are monetary value in breast milk? IF the abovesaid breast milk ice cream does provide health benefits, demand for this ice cream will increase gradually and you can see a gradual increase in the deman for breast milk. What happen if this willing mother is unable to produce more milk anymore? Having givig human a taste of a better commodity, their greediness inborn in them will definitely lead to greater craving for this ice cream. Isn't this like opening a Pandora box, whereby you will expect people exploiting ladies of their breastmilk, or ladies selling bottles of breastmilk at the settled price.

Aurina said that the breast milk do provide its natural freshness. Pardon me, but i have to argued that if one want to consume the ice cream made from 100% breast milk, why don't those consumers go directly to the woman's breast and suck it directly? (assuming that the lady is willing!) Or lets say, imagine a shop selling the above mentioned ice cream. You patronise it and you waited for your order. Behind the counter, you can see a lady trying to pump her breast milk into the ice cream maker to make more ice cream. How will you feel then? Yucky?

Using natural body parts/components and injecting some monetary value in it is a form of moral degradation that is going on within the society itself. Imagine people trading stem cell? Wrong? How about suddenly the market produces a placenta pill from human that can keep you young? Correct me if i am wrong, i am not downgrading those people who think that the ice cream is alright. What i am condemning is the fact that people are viewing body parts and components as having monetary value, something that can be tarded and patented. What are the social ramficcations that will happen if people start trading their body parts in exchange for money? What will happen if there are exploitation of body parts because they do provide some medicinal or healh benefits? In china, you have seen how tigers are hunted for medicinal purposes or how bears are abused for their biles. Nothing can be promised that humans' parts won't be exploited for the selfishness of the other human. Maybe things may not be exaggerated like how i just mentioned, but nonetheless, the possibility is there and if taken the wrong step in not controllig it, it will be a slippery road down to a society filled with moral decay.

aLm0nD~cUsTaRd blogged @ 11:55 PM