you surely mean with traditional milk as humans first food, the milk of a human mother?
Because I have never seen a human newborn suckling on the udder of a cow as its first food.

So if you want to milk human women and package their milk and sell it or make cheese from it, that would be traditional.

But people react as if human milk, the natural milk for humans, is contaginous if it is turned into ice cream.

People scrunch up their faces in disgust with the argument..what..that is baby food..I do not want to drink milk from a stranger.

Cow milk from an unknown source instead..normal.
Camel milk…does not sound so normal
elk milk
whale milk
dog milk..ok it gets disgusting
chimpanzee milk…yuck..even when chimpanzee milk is much closer to humane milk than cow

If we would feed a human infant unprepared bovine milk, or dog milk, or cat milk…the human infant would sooner or later die.

Cow milk has to be processed more or less heavily to be usefull for human infants and even than it is lacking, even with the modern methods we have.

Sure, it is better than 50 years ago and it is a lifesaver when the mother can not nurse, but still not a traditional food.

It is a big problem that non human breastmilk is thought as an needed item in human nutrition.

People act as if they would die if they could not drink breastmilk as adults.

Which other animal is drinking babymilk when it is grown up?

Would we not look a bit strange if a 10 year old horse would still walk up to a mare and suckle? Or an elephant..or maybe a whale?

Even stranger when a horse would walk up to a dog and start nursing.
But we nurse from a cow…holy moly!

So grown ups should drink milk? Then why do we wean babies when they would need breastmilk as an adult?

Really, adults drinking breast milk?

Just because we drink the breast milk of cows, it is not less strange that grown up men and women drink breast milk.

It is only our culture which makes us believe that it is normal, natural or even absolutely needed to drink breast milk as an adult

I think you will find that video funny, it is from a comedy show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1E7z6rH6k

Breast milk from a different species may have been a life saver in earlier times, but now in the ammount we use it and from cows feed genetically modified foods and forced to produce so much milk that the animal is in constant pain…no longer a life saver, rather a life endangerer

Ingredients: Sweet whey, creamer (coconut oil, corn syrup
solids, sodium caseinate [a milk derivative], dipotassium
phosphate, sugar, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate
80, sodium silicoaluminate, tetrasodium
pyrophosphate, soy lecithin), nonfat milk, sugar,
guar gum, vitamin A, vitamin D.

Ok..corn sirup..why? The caseinate I could understand but why polysorbate, sodium silicon-aluminate and tetrasodium pyrophosphate???

Polysorbate are in hair conditioner, maybe so it does not foam too much and has a silky mouth feel? And the silicon aluminate and tetrasodium pyrophasphate..I am not sure but I think these are in fireworks and varnish for cars.

Polysorbate are known to be an allergy risk, disturbing the skin barriers and making it easy for irritating and toxic substances to pass the skin barrier. This is not different for internal use..so germs and other stuff has it easy to enter the body..and this is food?
And aluminium poses a risk of beeing a factor in getting alzheimers disease

you say milk is a traditional food..well that is not so true. Only a small percentage of people had milk as food when people tamed animals.

There are a few caucasian and eurasian people and even less africans who kept animals and milked them.

Most african,nearly all asian, the native american people, they all did not have milk for thousand of years.

And the peple who had animals that gave milk, never had much milk.

Firstly most of the milk was needed for the calf/kid and after that there was often only half a cup of milk left.

For thousand of years milk was food for the rich, the ill and the old.

Would you come around with half a cup of milk?
But that is how it was…dairy animals produced much less milk than nowadays and only in the last couple of centuries did we breed them to produce such unnatural ammounts of milk.

Just imagine a horse with a cow udder, seems unnatural?

Then imagine that some hundred years ago most dairy animals had not much bigger udders than horses while laktating.

The big udder would have been in the way, no running with big milk jugs between the hind legs, easy prey, easily hurt while running.

The big udder is unnatural and is hurting the bones, muscles, joints with the weight, they are painfully big and also every dairy animal has an inflammed udder.

Udder infection is the cause why most cows are going to slaughter with 3 or 4 years when in earlier years they were milked for 9 years and longer.

In every milk sample there is pus found because the overstrained udder that is milked two times a day instead of 6 times by a calf,is inflamed.

The milk is sold with pus because it is not possible otherwise…the milk is collected in one tank so the milk with more germs and pus is diluted by milk with less pus.

Then it is sterilised, homogenised and sold…the only requirement is that the milk must not have more pus than allowed. If that is the case the farmer can dilute the milk of an ill cow with the milk of a cow with less inflamation.

It is not even a requirement for the farmer to treat the cow and keep the milk away till the numbers are better, he just has to dillute it enough so it meets the standard.

70% of all produced antibiotics are used for farm animals..and then people wonder why there are super germs resistent against medication.

So if you think milk is a traditional food, then also keep traditional standards.
Milk and dairy products were not common in the thousand of years where some people got to eat and drink it.

Even when you had a cow or a goat you did not have much milk, first the calf, then making butter and cheese, selling the butter,keeping the cheese for the time when the cow did not give milk(which was 4-6 months in the traditional times) and then using the spare whey and milk, fermenting it and rarely drinking it as it was.

Excerpted below is a list of the 60-some hormones in your average glass of milk—even the organic, raw, and bovine growth hormone free milk. The list is taken from Dr. Mark Hyman’s article that appeared on Dr. Frank Lipman’s site (great site if you haven’t already seen it). The article, which is here
http://bit.ly/gb9PqW,
happens to be about dairy and sugar causing acne but it’s well worth reading for anyone interested in an overall healthy diet of Real Food, just for the scientific info on milk and sugar alone.

So here’s what you and your family are ingesting with every glass of milk:
* 20α-dihydropregnenolone
* progesterone (from pregnenolone)
* 5α-pregnanedione
* 5α-pregnan-3β-ol-20-one, 20α- and 20β-dihydroprogesterone (from progesterone)
* 5α-androstene-3β17β-diol
* 5α-androstanedione
* 5α-androstan-3β-ol-17-one
* androstenedione
* testosterone
* dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate acyl ester
* insulin like growth factors 1 and 2 (IGF-1 and IGF-2)
* insulin

Cow’s milk is meant for baby calves, not humans. And the way the dairy industry comes by it causes life-long, round-the-clock suffering for living creatures. Not to mention the chance of acne – and who wants that?

Hope you find this info as interesting as I did. Really happy to see that your blog is raising many of your readers’s consciousness about what is in their food, and who exactly is benefiting from all the additives and sub-par ingredients (hint: they are selling it, not eating it).

Cheers,
RC

I like your creative ideas for using it. If we were ever in a crisis situation we’d plan to use it for cooking and not straight drinking, I think.

Nutritious Drink Mix – a delicious, milk alternative fortified with vitamins & minerals
Features
· Blend of Grade A Sweet Dairy Whey, and Dairy Solids, and nondairy solids

+ Whey is a rich source of nutrients including carbohydrates, trace minerals, and protein

+ Nearly all of the calcium caseinate, butterfat, and cholesterol from the milk used to produce the cheese remains in the cheese

· Fortified with Vitamins A & D

· 90 Calories per 8 oz serving – 30 calories lower than 2 % milk

· Little or no preservatives

· 9% Lactose vs. 20% in regular milk

· Low-fat – 2 grams of fat per 8 oz serving

· Good source of calcium

Thanks for the tips!

Powdered milk is always good to have on hand though. I’ve never had a glass of it, but used to always have it on hand for things just like you said – mashed potatoes, cooking, etc.

Strangely, my 2 and 4 year old LOVE drinking powdered milk. It makes me want to gag as a beverage but they actually ask for “milk in a box”.