• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    I’ll be honest, it likely depends on the social connotations of doing so. It feels on the same level of would I drink human milk and could I tell which milk was made from a set of three friends.

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    personally yes but I feel like we’d probably be weird about people who want to eat it like we are with breast milk. like I’d imagine humans would reserve it for feeding infants like how birds do with their regurgitated food.

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    That’s a misleading description of what bees do.

    That being said, if we could actually make honey that way, id be making my own and be happy with it

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      breast milk flavored ice cream was a thing, and is still available.

      sadly human milk products are illegal for sale.

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        I wouldn’t say sadly. Alowing human milk products to be sold would be risking a lot of infectious diseases to be spread.

            • Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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              The closest analogue we normally have is a wet nurse, and most people don’t like that idea. How would you feel if your mother/sister/daughter was one? Then make it worse, because there’s profit to be had by bottling it instead of just feeding someone else’s child. You don’t need to scale at all before it becomes a problem.

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                If my mother/sister/daughter was a wet nurse, I’d have zero problems with it if they did it by their own choice. Same as if they were able to bottle and sell their own breastmilk for a couple extra bucks, kinda like how people are able to donate blood or plasma or semen for a little money sometimes.

                Provided it’s not being abused and they are not enslaved or abused into doing it, I don’t see a problem with it

                Edit: also that the milk went through a proper pasteurization process to ensure safety to anyone who was buying it

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            Right, but pasturized doesn’t mean 100% sterile. Thats ok, because diseases don’t spread as much across different species. Most cow diseases don’t affect humans. But with milk produced by the same animal that consumes it that’s a different case.

  • Depends on whether or not it tasted as good as honey. Even honey itself can taste wildly different, depending on what pollen was gathered by the bees to make it. Clover honey is the most common I see, but blackberry honey tastes even better IMO.

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    I can’t stand honey. It smells like when people sneeze, so I have never wanted to even taste it. So I guess bee phlegm and human phlegm smell the same to me?

    • AskewLord@piefed.social
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      you can smell sneezes? or taste them?

      wild.

      I’ve had my dog sneeze in my mouth, but it didn’t have a flavor or a smell.

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        The smell comes from a person’s saliva which often gets spewed into the air after a sneeze. The droplets hang in the air a long time. Some peoples’ sneezes have a sickly sweet odour that smells the same as honey to me. Other sneezes don’t smell like much of anything to me though. I don’t know if I’m smelling an infection byproduct, a food, or maybe a lack of hydration causing their saliva to have a strong smell, but it always smells the same to me. As for taste? I think I’d rather not explore that. I imagine it might taste like it smells, so like honey.