SC - Re: Feeding cows rose-petals

[Stefan li Rous]

Kirsten of Blak Rose said: 
> I can testify to about charges refusing eat when the wet nurses ate strongly
> flavored foods.  I love eating spiced foods i.e. jalapeno peppers, buffalo
> wings etc.  However, when I was pregnant with our daughter and after when I
> was nursing, she definitely did not like the spiced foods.  Cynthia would
> kick hard from inside or refuse to nurse after I would eat a spicy meal.

Ok, I guess I could have been clearer. I don't doubt that what an female
animal, including a person, eats may effect the resulting taste. We've
had a discussion on this, with a number of personal examples given. What
I didn't think would happen is that giving a cow rose petals to eat
would result in milk that tasted like roses. Nothing in the personal
stories mentioned so far, now or previously, says the milk tasted like
the eaten food, just that the baby didn't like it. The baby might
react just because the milk was different, not because it specifically
tasted like the eaten food.

If it did, just think, Take all those coffee grounds and get coffee
milk. Or a bunch of chocolate and get chocolate milk! Or feed the cow
a lot of orange peels and get orange milk.

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