And now I'm concerned

Well then you definitely don't wanna google that.

Why?

If the women are fine with it, get a wage from it and can quit any time they choose to, where is the problem?

And just to add to the pile: humans can lactate without the need for pregnancy - even males - and some women can develop a condition called hyperlactation where the body goes full throttle on producing milk, beyond any needs of an infant. And never stop, in very extreme cases.

Sounds a good deal more sustainable and fair than cows milk and a heck lot more efficient than milking trees.

I once went to an ice cream fair where local women had collected their breast milk to make a breast milk ice cream. It was actually delicious

I think you just awakened something in me

Strangely, there exist those who would find it to be the furthest thing from strange, jsyk

So a few years a go, an old friend i was visiting asked if i wanted cream in my coffee. She checked the upstairs fridge, then went downstairs and came back with glass of milk. Halfway through my coffee i started to wonder why she was hiding a grin. Yes, she had a three month old.

But from a non consusual women is fine. Gotcha.

Google "hucows"

Only a little strange?

Human milk is only really strange to us because we normalized drinking cow milk. I see no reason why it'd be odd for zotopia animals to drink cow milk as well. If anything I'd imagine they'd consider the idea of adults drinking milk childish. Irl most adult animals are lactose intolerant so I'd imagine most likely the ice cream in the movie is just sherbet. Ice cream in this universe is probably a dessert for children.

Homelander has entered the chat.

We already do that

And in ice cream form as well

His right, your left?

We already do sell breast milk.

oh what a cool st..🤮

Oh my god it all makes sense now

Coconut milk and cream are not uncommon ingredients in southeast Asian cuisine where dairy is an uncommon ingredient.

Because nothing is ever being invented if not to replace something?

That argument is just wrong. If it was true there'd be exactly one drink and one food. Because we'd only invent something new if it was to replace the existing thing.

Just because we call it plant-based milk on Earth doesn't mean that's what they call it there. They call it ice cream and it could be made from plants.

And there is 100% reason to invent plant milk if you don't drink animal milk. It's a drink. We like it so we invent it.

It's zootopia, most mammal drink milk, so maybe they grow up liking milk and found a way to make one using plant-based material because drinking your neighbours milk is just awkward.

No, they make imitation ice cream now - I've seen almond, oat, and coconut milk used. It's more similar to real ice cream than sorbet is. There's a noticeable difference but I actually like the imitation ice cream more because it doesn't have the sour aftertaste I get from milk. The downside is that it's more expensive; I've only ever seen it sold in the premium-priced one-pint containers.

Shh don't scare big dairy

Indeed!

It's not, almost everyone has drunk human milk. It's actually not that bad.

It's one of those things that gets weirder the longer you think about it. Pouring some cow milk from a carton I to your cereal? Totally not weird. Beef juice squeezed from some utter, along with puss and hormones, ultra heated and squirted through a fine mesh? Pretty weird.

Depends how you do it.

Pretty sure this is beastars

Juice is reserved for liquids extracted from fruits and veggies. Almonds are neither, they're nuts (well, seed really). It's called almond milk because of it's appearance and texture. the more you knooooow.

Wdym how? Almonds are nipples of the tree. I thought everyone knew that!

We sell breast milk without forcefully inseminating women just fine, this leap of logic doesn't make any sense. We treat cows as livestock because we view cows as animals not people, whether their treatment is cruel or not is a different irrelevant argument, but in Zootopia they'd just be seen as people and would have control over the supply so obviously cows wouldn't be treated the same way in Zootopia as they are in real life. They'd only have to milk themselves and sell it just like when women sell breast milk in real life. If anything it's even less weird and disturbing to think about than in real life.

Tell me you know nothing about farming without actually saying it.

Cows and other livestock are raised in farms to raise more cows anyway. Farmers don't keep male cows around for fun, and cows aren't pets. All non-breeding stock gets eaten.

In Zootopia it's probably a job they get compensated for.

I'm not sure about other animals, but humans can induce lactation without pregnancy.

Your last paragraph is part of the premise of Mad Max: Fury Road

don't compare women to cows

The milk drinking is just as weird, since no other animal continues drinking milk after passing their baby state. Only humans do that.

How is it more weird to get milk from intelligent animals that are capable of giving consent?

Humans sell their own breastmilk to other humans for human consumption all the time in real life, it is completely normal for humans to drink human milk as well as the milk or other animals. The only difference in Zootopia is that every animal would be providing their milk consensually and likely selling it themselves. There's nothing weird about that.

Cows and humans are not the same animal and it's incredibly stupid to think they are.

Wasn't there an alligator cop? And some kind of bird, as a mail carrier I think?

...Nope, all mammals. I wonder if there's a lore thing about only mammals being highly intelligent or if there are other places with other classes of animals?

You're not wrong, maybe cows choose formula and sell their milk?
Fuck knows ¯(ツ)/¯

Cows produce excess milk, and many animals will continue to lactate if milked for an extended period even after giving birth and no longer being pregnant. If it makes them money then why not?