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Swiss Miss indeed

gkisseberth

Germany

Swiss restaurant to serve meals cooked with human breast milk A Swiss gastronomist has stirred a controversy in the tranquil Alpine republic after announcing that he will serve meals cooked with human breast milk.  

Last Updated: 10:42AM BST 19 Sep 2008

Swiss restaurant to serve meals cooked with human breast milk Women will receive just over £3 (US$5.4) for 14 ounces of their milk Photo: GETTY

The owner of the Storchen restaurant in the exclusive Winterthur resort will improve his menu with local specialities such as meat stew and various soups and sauces containing at least 75 per cent of mother's milk.

"We have all been raised on it. Why should we not include it into our diet?" Hans Locher, who has become Switzerland most controversial restaurant owner, said.

Mr Locher attracted the attention of the leading media of the German-speaking world this week after he posted ads looking for women donors, who will receive just over three pounds for 14 ounces of their milk.

He said: "I first experimented with breast milk when my daughter was born.

"One can cook really delicious things with it. However, it always needs to be mixed with a bit of whipped cream, in order to keep the consistency."

The food control authority in Switzerland was initially confused by the apparent loophole in local legislation regulating the use of human milk and it was not clear whether Mr Locher could actually be banned from serving his specialities.

"Humans as producers of milk are simply not envisaged in the legislation.

"They are not on the list of approved species such as cows and sheep, but they are also not on the list of the banned species such as apes and primates," Rolf Etter of the Zurich food control laboratory said.

11:34 PM Sep 20 2008 |

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gkisseberth

Germany

sorry Ryo, I didn't understand your point.

11:52 PM Sep 20 2008 |

mike_gwen

mike_gwen

Indonesia

The world has become weird thesedays. I don’t know. Is that case a sign of genius and creative or hopeless?

11:55 PM Sep 20 2008 |

oonah

oonah

Germany

Good afternoon Madame, we are from the Food Control Agency, we need to check your breast …

01:14 AM Sep 21 2008 |

Girlish

Girlish

Sweden

haha

i still can't imagine the way they will drip their milk by !

or they will use some Technical devices for ejecting it

the point is : this world is becoming COMMERCIAL,Money mouth

i am not wondering to read after few days: a new restaurant for buying cooked human Organs ,,, and at that moment,, it would be so "UGH"  ,, or you already have this sort of restaurants out  there throngs? Innocent

02:13 AM Sep 21 2008 |

mike_gwen

mike_gwen

Indonesia

What size of breast can produce best quality milk and more milk?

06:00 AM Sep 21 2008 |

mike_gwen

mike_gwen

Indonesia

Ryo, don’t get my previous words too seriously. I’m just joking, ok?

06:50 AM Sep 21 2008 |

mike_gwen

mike_gwen

Indonesia

Btw if this human’s milk factory would eventually be existed, I believe that the next generation children will lose their mother’s warm and healthy milk. There’d be degradation of human’s body defense of the next generation. I’m not so sure about it. But I think I’d read that mother’s milk contains many beneficial subtance which needed by babies.

06:59 AM Sep 21 2008 |

mike_gwen

mike_gwen

Indonesia

Ryo, you got me this time. Yeah I like big size one. :)

01:28 PM Sep 21 2008 |

gkisseberth

Germany

Will the women who sell their milk have to have their breasts stamped "Grade A"  etc.???

04:50 PM Sep 21 2008 |

worldmikel

worldmikel

United States

I'll take the "Food Control Agency" position. It is a tough job, but somebody has to do it! 

 

Cool

07:10 PM Sep 21 2008 |