Various milk products.
Milk is a white, edible liquid secreted from the mammary glands of female mammals. It's primary purpose is to nourish infants too young to eat conventional food. Due to its nutritional value and taste, animal milk (especially that of cows) is a popular beverage amongst developing and even mature humans.
Aside from being drunk directly, milk can be produced into a wide variety of foods, such as cheese, butter, ice cream, and yoghurt, or even added to existing products to improve the taste, such as coffee. Any produce made from milk is called âdairyâ and farms specializing in breeding milk producing animals, such as goats and cows, are therefore called âdairy farmsâ.
Liminal milk[]
In General[]
Amongst Liminals, both Milk Minotaurs, Pans, Satyrs and Dairy Breed Centaurs are known to lactate permanently, even outside of pregnancy. Over time, this has led to some liminals, who have to be milked constantly, have started to secretly sell their own milk to customers on their farms. In general, liminal milk is highly sought after because it is more nutritious than regular animal milk, and can therefore be sold at very high prices.
Although the Japanese government has officially and completely forbidden the trade and sale of Liminal milk due to ethical concerns, as Ms Smith reveals in Chapter 86, the whole thing is actually not that simple, as many people justify their business with Liminal milk with certain phases such as "replacement milk for mothers" or "for research purposes only". This has led to the fact that the sale of Liminal milk has become more of a ridiculously loose gray area, in which it is difficult to determine what is forbidden and what is not. To make matters worse in this respect, probably due to the incomplete laws and adjustments to protect Liminals, a trade or service offering in Liminal milk does not fall under the Liminal protection arc as long as no Liminals are harmed in the process and money is not involved.
Minotaur, Pan and Satyr milk[]
Minotaur milk is noted to be especially delicious and nutritious, with there even being many Minotaur Milk Connoisseurs. And since the demand is much higher than the supply, it is a fast selling commodity that fetches a high price. Also, since it is technically not cow's milk, it can therefore be drank even by people with a milk allergy.
Likewise, both Minotaur milk and Pan milk are nutritious enough and close enough to mother's milk that it is believed to be almost perfect for a human baby's needs. This, along with bypassing the adverse of effects of individuals who are lactose intolerant, makes Minotaur and Pan milk superior to cow's milk and human milk.
Merino reveals that recently, there has been an issue of new human mothers having problems producing breast milk themselves for their babies, and have learnt of the superiority of Minotaur and Pan milk. As such, they have been been sending orders to Dairy farms handled by female Minotaurs and Pans to deliver their milk to them for a price. This has been done in secret due to the Extra-Species Bill regarding complex ethical issues.
Dairy Breed Centaur milk[]
While the milk of Minotaurs, Pans and Satyrs can be drunk without any known risks, the milk of Dairy Breed Centaurs sometimes caused a negative side effect as seen in Chapter 71: due to the strong maternal hormones in the milk the drinker can revert to a infant state in which he/she behaves like a baby and strives to continue drinking milk from breasts. Even persons of extraordinary strength of will like Kimihito are powerless against it, but fortunately, this side effect is only temporarily.
While the reason for this negative side effect has been suggested to be due to the maternal hormones in the milk, it is unknown whether this is a common problem under many Dairy Breed Centaurs or can only occur in certain single persons such as Meamil. However, when Meamil herself drank some of Centorea's milk (when the latter suddenly lactated), she herself briefly returned to an infant state, so it is possibly that Centaur milk may generally caused these side effect, if the milk is drunk by an adult.
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Trivia[]
- While human females also lactate, it is usually only done during and shortly after the time of pregnancy.
- Cattle that are bred exclusively for Dairy Farming are known as Holstein cattle. It is this specific breed of cattle to where the Holstaur species gets its name from.
- Instead of milk, Honey Bees and Queen Bees produce Royal Jelly from their breasts, which is said to be highly nutritious and valuable.
- In dryads and Alraunes, their breasts produce nectar. According to Kii's secrets, there is apparently a theory that the sweet sap of Dryads could act as an aphrodisiac on men, but this theory is not confirmed and it is probably actually false, as Kimihito did not suffer any side effect when he sucked on Kii's breasts in Chapter 20 to sucks the toxins out of her.
- In Slimes, their breasts can store water which can be safely drank.
- It can actually be seen as very strange that Minotaurs, Pans, Satyrs and Dairy Breed Centaurs constantly produce milk even outside of pregnancy, since the actual function of milk is to feed a child. For this reason, the fact that they have to be milked every day does not only make no sense from a biological point of view, outside of a possible commercially viable venue, but also represents a hindrance to everyday life.
- Although it has been confirmed in Chapter 56 that female Satyrs just like Pans and Minotaurs constantly produce breast milk, the lactation of a Satyr has not yet been shown in the manga series.
- Considering that Meamil's milk puts the drinker in an infantile regression, her milk can be considered as a mind-altering drug, although it is still unclear whether only Meamil's milk has this effect or whether the milk from Dairy Breed Centaur in general has this negative side-effect.
- While it initially seemed in Chapter 71 that the effects of Meamil's milk would disappear on their own over time, Ms Smith's plan with Centorea's "milk training" to stop Meamil in Chapter 86 and the situation in the hospital suggests that the effect may at least last longer than originally suspected. This leaves open the possibility that the Satyr girls of the Black Lily ranch may have recovered so quickly from their infantile regression because they drank the milk of the Minotaur girls, which could mean that Liminal milk can actually negate the negative effects of Meamil's milk.
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