Alternative milk in the news

[Henrietta23]

A story ran on our local evening CBS news last night about people in Europe who are unable to drink cow's or even goat's milk. They have discovered that many people can drink donkey milk. I sat giggling through the whole story since my milk goat is named Donki! We are so trendy!!
It was an unusual sight to see, numerous donkeys hooked up to a milking machine.
They charge roughly $20 a quart for the milk if I understood correctly.

 

[TanksHill]

That is funny!!

 

[freemotion]

Wow! How much milk does the average donkey produce, anyways? Maybe I should get me a few?

 

[Henrietta23]

Wow! How much milk does the average donkey produce, anyways? Maybe I should get me a few?

I don't think it occured to the news peoples that inquiring minds would want to know that particular fact!

 

[Blackbird]

And here we just got rid of our donkey..

 

[big brown horse]

I don't think your donkey would appreciate being milked BB, wasn't he a boy?

This reminds me of a "Girls Behaving Badly" episode where they give away free samples of cheese. After the poor saps took a good bite the bad girls told them it was made from human breast milk. One bad girl asked if they detected a smokey flavor b/c the woman who supplied the milk smoked three packs a day.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

eeeewwuuuueeeeee!!! BBH that is too much

actually i loved that show. my fav was when the guy delivered a huge box to an office and a gal in a wedding dress jumped out and ran away. hi-larious!

 

[big brown horse]

That was a good one too!

 

[Blackbird]

Yes, he was a boy. If I got anything out of him I probably wouldn't want to drink it though.

 

[VickiLynn]

A story ran on our local evening CBS news last night about people in Europe who are unable to drink cow's or even goat's milk. They have discovered that many people can drink donkey milk. I sat giggling through the whole story since my milk goat is named Donki! We are so trendy!!
It was an unusual sight to see, numerous donkeys hooked up to a milking machine.
They charge roughly $20 a quart for the milk if I understood correctly.

I saw that too. Yes, they said $20 per quart! They showed a children's hospital in Italy that stocks donkey milk for patients with allergies. They said nutritionally, it's very close to mother's milk.

They showed the donkey farm, too. But from what I could tell, it looked like all the donkeys with milkers on were girls