PETA urges Ben and Jerry's to use human milk

[AllegroRondo]

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

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.

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um....
ok....

[Danger Mouse]

1. This is a parody...right...?

[AllegroRondo]

2. no, i believe they're serious

or at least trying to make a point about treatment of animals.

[Chorophyll]

3. Well, they've never worried much about the treatment of women,

so I guess it makes sense. :eyes:

[malta blue]

4. they can harvest breast milk from the "birthing centers" that

Bush wants to set up so that women don't get abortions :eyes:

[Chorophyll]

6. Brilliant solution.

Rethugs and PETA, together at last, putting the women in their place. It was meant to be.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. According to 'Friends', breast milk tastes like

cantaloupe.

Cherry Garcia will never be the same.



:hide:

[Marrah_G]

7. OYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[DS1]

8. ONE Swiss guy does it as a novelty, so now clearly it's something

a probable billion dollar operation should do.

Peta are their own worst enemy.

[harmonicon]

9. what a joke....

As someone else just said, PETA really are their own worst enemy. How this will bring anyone over to their cause, I don't know. It just makes them look like assholes.

Really, as this says, the real problem is factory farming, not cows' milk. I spent a lot of my time growing up on a family run dairy farm, and two uncles of mine still run it. Just in the past few years, now that the two of them are in their 50's and 60's, they've taken on hired help. Maybe if people started campaigning to help the family farmers and shut down subsidies to industrial farming operations, something good could actually be done, but I guess enough folks in PETA would rather just make a spectacle which brings them negative publicity and accomplishes nothing. Thanks, assholes.

[lost-in-nj]

10. ok.... how disgusting

the thought of it turns my stomach.....

yes I drink cows milk and almond milk
but not goats milk or other kinds of milk
and I will not eat/drink another humans milk

and to think they would even eat it....

I don't think so


lost

:puke:

[bertha katzenengel]

11. If this story isn't from The Onion, it should be.

Jesus Christ.

[MrScorpio]

12. I just had a vision flash of human dairy farms

God help me

[AllegroRondo]

21. theres a Piers Anthony short story about that

it was in his collection called "anthonology"

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. lol

[Iggo]

14. Milk from cows' titties, good.

Milk from human titties, bad.

Okay, got it. (I think.)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. my granduncle during world war1 had to travel to many far away places

somewhere milking women for milk for tea was considered appropriate.

[Iggo]

23. I guess it should've been obvious...

...but it never crossed my mind 'til now.

I can never look at my cheese the same way again.

[Iggo]

15. Wow.

Not only was it a dupe, but I put it in the wrong spot.

Heckuva morning I'm having.

[Connonym]

17. In all seriousness, if they "harvest" human milk shouldn't we give it to babies before icecream?

[Mutley]

18. Oh FFS.

If there is ONE huge corporation out there that at least attempts to care about something other than its profit, it's Ben and Jerry's. Go bother someone else PETA. There are plenty of 'em out there worthy of your attention.

[SurfingAtWork]

19. Why not cut out the middle man?

[Connonym]

20. I think I speak for all women when I say

no WAY will I let you put my breasts into an ice cream maker! brrrr not to mention the cold part :-P

[foxfeet]

22. Ummm...how do we know they HAVEN'T been already? n/t

[meow2u3]

24. But it would increase the suffering of WOMEN on factory farms

:evilfrown: