Lactose tolerant
So a few months back I was contacted by a journalist from the San Fransisco Chronicle who was working on a story about the illicit on line trade in breast milk. I’m sure most of you are at this point wondering why a journalist from one of the countries largest newspapers would contact me of all people for such a story, its a fair question.
I’m the proud owner of a 15 month old human, back when young Oliver was only a few months old and I was new to the parenting game feeding was tough. Mom did a whole lot of pumping and I did a whole lot of pulling my hair out when the boy would scoff at my attempts to keep him fed. One day back in April of ‘05, in a fit of frustration, I threw up this post. Two hundred and fifty eight comments later, I seem to be the on line king of the underground breast milk trade. Now let me be clear here for the sake of any FDA investigators who may be paying attention, I DO NOT SELL, NOR DO I CONDONE THE SALE OF, MOTHERS MILK (and the Chili Peppers can blow me). But If you’re interested in such things, be you a fetishist or just plain thirsty, heres the article which has provided my Left Coast 15 minutes of fame. If your not interested, I’ll just hand you my money quote.
One Web site with regular traffic, www.radioball.net, started when a Massachusetts blogger jokingly offered last year to sell his wife’s breast milk.
“I’m somewhere between surprised and horrified. … I essentially took over the market for breast milk,” said Brendan Melican of Worcester, Mass., who never sold the milk but has allowed other sellers to use his site. “It’s capitalism at its best, and its worst.”
There are more sellers than buyers on Melican’s site, and it’s unclear how many people are buying unscreened milk. Three sellers contacted by The Chronicle said they hadn’t found a serious taker.
A fourth, single mother Brandi Archer, 19, of Greensboro, N.C., said she changed her mind after being contacted by three men who didn’t seem to have babies. Sellers routinely advertise “no perverts.” She did also hear from two women who said they wanted milk for their children.
So there you have it folks; Brendan Melican, friend of the American pervert. Something tells me I would have been better off getting caught banging a tranny hooker in the Library parking lot, but if you can’t laugh at yourself what can you laugh at? I’d like to thank Janine DeFao, from the SFC, for being a good sport. I always love talking to journalists, but ‘on the record’ are the three scariest words in the English language.
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