Is (human) breast milk/semen vegan??

AAAuuurggghhhhhh!!!!!!

Although they are technically animal products, they are given with consent (particularly the latter!) so nobody is being exploited, and it is perfectly ethical for vegans to consume them, or indeed donate them for consumption.

Since the dreadful case of the ridiculously stupid parents of Crown Shakur, a poor baby who died after being fed only soya milk and apple juice, I have heard this question come up rather alot. The carton even stated on it this was not suitable for use as formula for babies. (The same would have applied to cows' milk, but had a baby been fed only cows milk by a negligent parent and died, all this media frenzy would not have happened in the same way.)

Vegan babies should ideally be fed breast milk from a mother eating a nutritionally balanced diet, and there plenty are books on the subject for mothers to do their research, one of the best being Becoming Vegan by Vesanto Melina and Brenda Davis. If for any reason mothers are unable to breastfeed, babies should be fed a proper formula and not soy milk or cows milk for that matter, there are some soya formulas out there, mainly for lactose-intolerant babies.

Onto the semen, and it has been well documented that vegans taste a lot better than omnivores, so many (but by no means all) vegans won't swallow simply because omni's taste nasty- so it's not an issue of ethics so much as one of taste. So gentlemen, best way to increase your chances of receiving oral sex from a vegan partner might be to go vegan yourself! ;)