This is three years old, but still interesting: there's good evidence that lactation got its start with the secretion of anti-bacterial stuff onto the skin, developed into delivering the anti-bacterial stuff to the offspring, and lastly added the nutritional value. Quoting from the article: "Milk is actually a kind of anti-microbial snot mixed in with a lot of fat and sugar." Hee! I wonder what the Boob Nazis would think of that.