The Breast Page 1 A mammal is a warm-blooded animal with fur or hair that feeds its babies milk from its body. By this definition, many human beings are no longer mammals, as they feed artificial baby milk that may or may not come from another mammal to their young. There are many reasons that this is not a good idea.
Human milk is designed specifically and only for human babies.
Every mammal has milk specific to its species, milk that will help it to reach its optimum development. Humans are primates that grow slowly in body, but have large brains that need to grow quickly. Cows need to grow large quickly, with heavy bones, and not a huge amount in the way of brains. When a human infant is fed artificial baby milk made from cow s milk, it is not able to reach its full physical or intellectual potential. An artificially fed infant does not receive the antibodies from its mother to help it grow up as healthy as possible, and it does not receive the many components of breastmilk that will help its brain to develop to the fullest.