Got Milk?
Posted on 09/24/2008 1:59:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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
Paging Pamela Anderson, please pick up the white curtesy phone....
Got Milk?
Does this mean I can buy a Dolly Parton carton?
B & J can then say that they are in need of illegal, fertile milkmaids to do the lactating American women don’t want to do.
As long as I can pump it myself, I’m all for it!
And this prompts me to change my sig.
Do we really want breast milk sweat shops?
What will happen to the humans who are milked? Oh, the humanity!
I’ll have the Titty Twirl and the Double D Dipper!
Fine, but what would it cost? Two scoops of vanilla ‘Knockers’ with a cherry on top, probably looking at $35.
lolol... that would make the world’s most expensive stuff.
Do they have any idea how many women this would require? A cow puts out a LOT more than a woman.
Depends on if the milk pumps are automated or if the suppliers get to pick a human milker.
...Me, I’d ask Mel Gibson ;^0
PETA is performance art, and nothing more.
They bring nothing of any substance or value to the table, and as such, should be mocked and/or ignored.
Am I the only one who finds this thread totally offensive?
OK. I’m afraid this isn’t satire. The images of lines of women lined up at milking machines is really too much for me. This is one we could outsource, as far as I’m concerned.
But I don’t know. Maybe it could be a handy source of pin money when things get tight.
If this is not satire, these folks are far beyond zebra. I really don’t have the word to describe how insane they are. And they are probably otherwise functional people.
I just don’t know how a reasonably functional person wakes up one morning and says “I have a great idea. Let’s replace cows with women for milk!” And then his buddies hear the idea and say, “Great idea. Let’s send the suggestion to Ben and Jerry’s. They’re hip and liberal. I bet they’ll think it’s a great idea!”
I don’t know what planet they are from. But it’s not from anywhere around here.
Only a couple or 3 times, including me. I was surprised the mods let it stay up! LOL
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