As part of a larger project to raise awareness about food choices, New York based artist Miriam Simun created three different types of cheese using a combination of human and animal milk.
Using surplus breast milk solicited online, paired with either cow and goat milk, the artist produced three distinct cheeses: Sweet Airy Equity (a mild hard cheese made with breast milk from a Manhattan mother), Wisconsin Bang (a creamy, pungent cheese made from Wisconsin sourced human breast milk) and City Funk (a smelly Gorgonzola-type cheese also made with breast milk from the Manhattan mother).
Simun recently held a tasting where she presented the opportunity to sample the three cheeses, while encouraging people to question their food options in a rapidly changing world of biotechnology and industrialized systems of food production.
“We abuse animals, exploit people, pollute the earth, and destroy our bodies as we eat. Food is a site of contention and revolution,” explains Simun on her project website. “Humans are the only animals to harvest and consume other species' milk. This milk is neither created for human digestion, nor particularly healthy for human consumption, nor always kind to the animals we harvest and milk.”
Visit: http://www.miriamsimun.com
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written by simone strifele , January 20, 2011