Last week, I skipped over posting an article on a particular brand of ice cream had been created called “Baby Gaga”, distributed in Westminster UK by a company called The Icecreamists, Baby Gaga had for only difference, that it was made from human breast-milk. I had read the news and figured that there wasn’t going to be much to write about it, except the obvious: “Bleah!”
Now though, comes the news that the Food Safety Agency (FSA) has decided to force The Icecreamists to remove the product from sale. Why? (besides the obvious Bleah!) Well, part of the FSA’s mandate is to ensure that whatever edible is sold, must be safe for human consumption. Yes, this includes animal food, like dog and cat food, except when it’s stated on the packet “Not for human consumption”. So it seems that they simply want to test the ice cream and make absolutely sure it is ok, for human consumption.
“Wait what? You mean it hadn’t been tested?” might be a question that comes to mind. Well apparently no, it wasn’t, except that The Icecreamists have released a statement to the effect that the milk used to make Baby Gaga, was tested by labs for the usual diseases like hepatitis. How reassuring.
Although breast-milk might be fine and dandy for babies to drink, as it contains all the nutrients that a baby needs initially, without the whole trouble with having to chew it, I just don’t think something edible, made from human breast-milk has a future as a dessert for, well, non-babies. Also, did I mention? Bleah!
Of course, most of us will eat stuff we might not be too happy to ingest, if we knew what was actually in it. So as Cypher said in The Matrix (and Cookie quotes regularly); “Ignorance is bliss…”
