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PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk
Group Says Move Would Help Humans, Cows

POSTED: 1:48 pm EDT September 23, 2008
UPDATED: 9:53 am EDT September 24, 2008



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.





And now the letter itself....





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



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

i just got a very strange mind picture of all of Lando's boobie girls in a barn attached to milking machines.

Ugh, that's disgusting. I don't want to drink other people's breastmilk!!!

i actually dont think the fat content is high enough to make ice cream. It is also way sweeter than cows milk, i guess ice cream would be no sugar added.

Oh, Peta. Will you just GO THE FRIG AWAY already so people can actually take animal cruelty SERIOUSLY?!

Sorry. I know this actual subject is rather humorous, but I just hate them so very much for making a cause I care about so dearly into a laughing stock. They're so unbelievably counterproductive, but they don't care.

Oh, and I like how they chose Ben & Jerry's, who already makes ice cream without BGH, which is more than most other producers can say. I suppose they figured with their awesome hippie ways, B&J might actually do it. Just goes to show how out of touch Peta really is.

... if farmers weren't selling the milk from dairy cows, they'd be selling the meat instead. so, uh, way to save the cows peta.

Hah, so true.

Also...milking cows is a humanitarian act! If you don't milk them their udders will explode!

also.. they want to start a people-milk industry because the cow-milk industry it harmful to cows?
...what about the people?

(thats the point. exploitation of animals...etc)

Plus Peta pretty much hates people.

Not that they're any better with animals, really. They like to euthanize them. Which is awesome.

Also, the title of this thread makes the grammar and spelling nazis inside of me twitch uncontrollably.

Dairy cows are not generally used for meat. I believe their meat is used for dog food and such. Of course i could be wrong and am too lazy to look it up.

Also if we didnt milk cows their udders would not explode. It is painful, like a human when weaning off a baby. You do get engorged in a big way, but in nature that would also happen. Although I think it would be more gradual, ie if the calf was starting to eat more feed it would eat less milk so there by the milk production would wane.

oh i just got an idea Pam anderson can be their milk-making machine...hahaha


Yeah Nikki the Peta people love to hurt humans in the name of animals. so twisted.

Ewww.


Milk contaminated with Hep C and silicone.



And this is coming from a dude who used to want to motorboat those boobies like a water skiing champ.

I'm a big fan of milk. Big fan. However I won't go to the grocery store and purchase bottled tit juice. No thanks. PETA is just searching for reasons to piss & moan with the general public. This has to be one of the dumbest campaigns by them I've ever seen.


Now if you'll excuse me. I'm gonna go enjoy my Phish Food. Fuckers.

crustine wrote:Also if we didnt milk cows their udders would not explode. It is painful, like a human when weaning off a baby. You do get engorged in a big way, but in nature that would also happen. Although I think it would be more gradual, ie if the calf was starting to eat more feed it would eat less milk so there by the milk production would wane.

Oh Crusty, you completely failed to miss my sarcasm I know full well they won't explode, I was just making a joke!

they do suffer much pain if not milked though.

crustine wrote:i just got a very strange mind picture of all of Lando's boobie girls in a barn attached to milking machines.

this is about the weirdest and scariest thing i've ever read on the cm!

Weird. This thread got marked read when I didn't read it. Anyway, I'd like to say that the topic is actually now less annoying to read cos it looks like it's awful on purpose. So that's a big ol' FAIL for you, Mr. Johnny.