As the blogs fume and Lady Gaga threatens to sue, we look at why a little scoop is causing such a big roar

By Anna Sussman

March 10, 2011

http://www.salon.com/food/food_psychology/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/03/10/twisted_ethics_of_breast_milk_ice_cream

When London-based ice cream maker Matt O'Connor launched "Baby Gaga," a flavor made with human breast milk, he was hoping to start a conversation.

"I come from a family of Irish dairy farmers," he said. "We used to milk the cows every morning at 5 a.m., and keep impregnating them every five months so they would keep producing milk. That was floating around in my head -- why are human breasts sexualized, rather than being seen as biological feeding instruments?"