PETA wants Ben/Jerry's to use human breastmilk for ice cream?!

[upjeeper]

http://www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail.html

just because one Swiss restaurant can replace some of their cow milk with breast milk, doesn't mean that ALL of Ben and Jerry's can do it. Do these people not understand logistics?

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PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

POSTED: 1:48 pm EDT September 23, 2008
UPDATED: 11:51 pm EDT September 23, 2008
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WATERBURY, Vt. -- 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."

"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," said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry's.

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 to17 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

[ItsaCJ6]

[Ipe]

Those PETA people are as fucked up as a football bat.

Although I guess this would give those Le Leche League mothers something to do once their kid is weened off the boob at 15

[ItsaCJ6]

This looks like a "Far Side" cartoon in my head.

Herds of saggy breasted women...

[thumping]

Ever (with no exceptions) PETA member is a complete idiot. Any argument that they are not only goes to futher prove how retarded they are.

[IndyCJ]

Originally Posted by ItsaCJ6

This looks like a "Far Side" cartoon in my head.

Herds of saggy breasted women...

[Slowzuki]

There would be sweatshops full off women hooked to breast pumps. "Only the finest Cambodian breast milks"

[ukjeeper]

Hmmmm, i've been looking for a career change. Are they looking for someone to work on THAT dairy farm?....

[PONY_DRIVER]

Originally Posted by ukjeeper

Hmmmm, i've been looking for a career change. Are they looking for someone to work on THAT dairy farm?....

Judging from the supporters of B&J working on a REAL dairy farm would be more pleasant and better smelling.

[94stepsideford]

Originally Posted by PONY_DRIVER

Judging from the supporters of B&J working on a REAL dairy farm would be more pleasant and better smelling.

Yup, I'd rather milk my cows, thanks though.

[SilverZuk]

because it is appropriate

[Kyron]

Come awn ........ if Ben&Jerrys used boobie milk, I'm sure there will be some cool new flavors

Dark Chocolate......

then get brest milk from drunk womens

[DR. SMASHER]

"I have nipples Greg (Focker), can you milk me?"

[DavidVanVorous]

Dang, someone stole my idea.

Eons ago when my son was born my ex used to express so I could do the 3AM feeding. As I was putting away a bottle she had filled, the idea came to mind that we could go into biz and sell "Mothers Butter"...

There was a flurry of thrown items my direction when I suggested the idea to her but I managed to escape harm but the idea is/was always a funny as far as I was concerned...

D.

[Ipe]

Originally Posted by DR. SMASHER

"I have nipples Greg (Focker), can you milk me?"

[rcurrier44]

They have a hard enough time regulating the quality and what gets in cow milk.....

[Del taco]

Originally Posted by DavidVanVorous

Dang, someone stole my idea.

Eons ago when my son was born my ex used to express so I could do the 3AM feeding. As I was putting away a bottle she had filled, the idea came to mind that we could go into biz and sell "Mothers Butter"...

There was a flurry of thrown items my direction when I suggested the idea to her but I managed to escape harm but the idea is/was always a funny as far as I was concerned...

D.

human boobie milk not = to moo milk.

[Mustard Dog]

Originally Posted by Slowzuki

"Only the finest Cambodian breast milks"

That's the first thing I thought of too

[Kitty Cat]

[Alpine4x4]

Originally Posted by SilverZuk

because it is appropriate

Yep bunch of worthless hypocritical faggots.