Wednesday, December 22, 2010

PINK Music

So I'm actually not into music videos or pop music that much anymore, but through some breastfeeding related research group I was informed that the singer PINK has a new music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVNlG5cZyQ) in which around the mid point of the video you see several women sitting tied to breast pumps that are attached to some tubing that feeds a baby cow. Really interesting that a famous singer is so openly questioning how come humans are feeding cow milk (based formula) to their babies and why not the other way around.
Well actually, you would know if you read some of my posts that I am totally a promoter of organic food and sustainable living and so I'm also a promoter of breastfeeding (and of course that is party how I became a lactation counselor). So, feeding other foods when breast milk is the best and readily available food for babies doesn't seem to be ideal. Would you think of feeding cows your milk? Actually maybe humans haven't tried feeding cows human milk, but they have tried so hard to feed cows food that they normally don't eat, such as corn and soy which tend to be genetically engineered as well, which makes the cows sick and then the people who eat those cows get sick too. Cows are herbivors, and they eat grass and whatever else is mixed in the soil with grass, so should not be fed anything else.
Anyhow, I wanted to share this to spread the energy of women and especially breastfeeding women around for the sake of sustainable living. I would love to hear from you if you have ideas about this as well.

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