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Alicia Silverstone wants you to know she has no regrets about the highly unusual (and surprisingly controversial) way she feeds her son. So chew on that, haters.

The star made headlines last month when she posted a video that showed Alicia chewing food for her baby and transferring it to his mouth directly from hers.

Now she’s defending herself from critics poking fun or criticizing her for it, saying it has been an accepted practice for millennia and she’s not about to stop.

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“People have been feeding their kids that way for thousands of years,” she said this past weekend at a sneak preview of her new film, Vamps.

“It’s a weaning process. It’s just a process that has been going on for thousands of years of humanity … I didn’t think I was inventing anything.”

“I wasn’t saying this was anything somebody should do,” Silverstone explained. “I wasn’t trying to be independent or cause such a ruckus.”

“But I’m very glad that I did it.”

Bear seems to love it, anyway. He “literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I’m eating,” she wrote when posting the baby video.