Breast Milk Ice Cream?!

VERMONT -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

 

"PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.

 

PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

 

"The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."

 

In a statement Ben and Jerry's said, "We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child."

 

Read PETA's letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

 

September 23, 2008

 

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Cofounders

 

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

 

Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,

 

On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I'd like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry's.

 

Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.

 

Using cow's milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer's health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease-America's number one cause of death.

 

Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.

 

And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can't produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to 17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can't even turn around.

 

The breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.

 

Sincerely,

 

Tracy Reiman

 

Executive Vice President

 

http://www.wnbc.com/news/17539627/detail.html

 

I wonder how many mother's would approve of their breast milk being commercialised. I know I wouldn't be so delightful.

This is why I think vegeterians are a bit off their rockers.

This is why I think vegeterians are a bit off their rockers.

lol yeah the lack of meat has its disadvantages

This is why I think humans are a bit off their rockers.

 

Fixed :yes:

quit dissing yourself :>

Haha, what the hell?

 

No thanks, I'll pass on that.

Ugh, I'm sorry, but that's just gross. There's NO way that I'd ever eat ice cream made from liquid that came from multiple women's tits. For some odd reason, that doesn't turn my crank.:no:

Eww thats horrible, thats like on that program Kate Garraway did about them women in America who share milk with other babies and stuff and then they made it into cream or sold it eww

lol i would never eat this, seriously, how do they come up with stuff like this

Anyone know if this comes in Keira Knightly flavor?

Are they serious? Hahaha this is the most ridiculous proposition I have heard in centuries! Don't the idiots know that animals suffer if they DON'T get milked regularly? It's what they produce milk for, so that humans milk them and use this milk for their nutrition... While on the other hand, women produce milk ONLY for a short period after they've given birth and ONLY in order to feed their babies, not in order to support ice-cream companies, wtf? Last but not least...eww I don't think that the idea of eating an ice-cream practically produced by various women's tits (haha I loved that!) is exactly appealing... Now, whether the dairy companies keep the animals in healthy conditions or whether they treat them right or not that's a different story. You (PETA people) can sue the companies for that and request that the animals get treated better, not recruit millions of women in the place of cows, get a grip...

haha thats pretty funny. I kinda think that much human breast milk would be hard to come by.

it would be a delicacy i guess?

 

lots of money for a small amount?

 

im still not so sure about the concept....that milk should really be going to babies? since mothers milk is seen to be best for new borns?

Kinda wierd........