Hi Stefan, This story is not a surprise to me. > some weeks ago I found a small article in my newspaper. It was about > a young african male who watched a cow elephant together with her calf. > He took a bucket, went to the pair and tried to milk the cow. At first > he was successful and got about one litre of milk. Then suddenly the > cow elephant became angry and kicked the man into his ribs breaking > several of them. In yesterday's newspaper here there is an article that human breast milk consumption (tracked through donor breast milk banks) has risen 33% in the past year and that the demand is still greater than the supply. Thank goodness slavery is outlawed; if humans were treated like cows I imagine someone would certainly exploit that opportunity. Which is part of my unpopular view of dairy farm cows, despite the fact that I enjoy raw cow cream and raw goat cheese sometimes. > The african ran away followed by the elephant mother. In his distress > he climbed a tree. The elephant pulled out the tree (must have been a > relative small one) and kept on attacking the man. She would have > killed him if not other people had watched the scene and come to help. Well, I don't know any human moms who would give their breast milk to anyone except a child she was raising, although I know a few do. And I can't imagine any human moms that would allow the young of another species to suckle or or someone to pump her body for milk for food of another species. regards r.