Originally Posted by
Eclipsepearl
Luckily, from dairy to meat there is no waiting period (there is for the opposite) so it would not pose any ethical problems if religious parents had to taste their child's formula.
Not everyone has a zero waiting period from dairy to meat. Some folks follow traditions that impose a 5 or 30 minute wait from dairy to meat. But I think almost all traditions impose longer wait times the other way around (up to 6 hours in some traditions) under the theory that it takes longer to digest meat than dairy, and you don't want them mixing in your belly.
Originally Posted by
welltravelled88
Yes of course breast milk is kosher, but I thought it is meant for the child, no ?
I actually thought there was something according to which if a person (man or woman, adult or child) drinks the breast milk of a woman, that person becomes a child of that woman. I think same applies to Islam. I may be wrong, maybe it's just some traditional belief in some countries.
Like I said before, I'm not a rabbi, but I've never heard of anything like that in Judaism. There may be some issues with modesty laws (not kosher laws) with drinking breastmilk directly from a breast if you're not a child, and I can't imagine anybody actually serving breastmilk to an adult. But everything I've read indicates that if you get a little breastmilk in your food or on your dishes, it's no big deal. This is completely different from prohibited foods (like chicken that hasn't been slaughtered right, pork, shrimp, etc.), which cause everything they touch to become unkosher, or even cow's milk, a splash of which can make your meat dishes unkosher.
Anyway, would any guy here be comfortable drinking his wife's milk ???
Can't say that I would be. I just don't think there's any religious prohibition on it.