Ben & Jerry's-Ice Cream with Breast Milk?

MrBrian

By John Curran, The Associated Press

WATERBURY, Vt. - Mooove over, Holsteins.

PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product.

The idea is getting a cool reception from Ben & Jerry's officials, the company's customers and even La Leche League International, the world's oldest breastfeeding support organization, which promotes the practice - for babies, anyway.

PETA wrote a letter to company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday, telling them cow's milk is hazardous and that milking them is cruel.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080925/koddities/breast_milk_ice_cream
I'm jokingly giving this a thumbs up,

norm

peta's a fucking joke

jeffbr

cutback wrote:

peta's a fucking joke

Yes, indeed! I have a hard time understanding how anyone takes them seriously anymore, unless they've got the intellect of Pamela Anderson.

he still stands

cutback wrote:

peta's a fucking joke

Absolutely. I would NEVER hurt an animal... that is just FUCKED up. I love animals and my puppy dog is like my child. But PETA is run by a bunch of idiots. Come on... seriously?... they want us to drink milk from nursing moms?

BetterThanYou

cutback wrote:

peta's a fucking joke

yeah, just wanted to quote this one more time. hopefully, everyone that replies to this thread will quote cutback first.

Uncle Leo

I firmly believe there is value to there being a viable animal rights group(s). There is nothing wrong with them doing things like educating people on the way that animals that we eat or that get tested are treated. There is certainly nothing wrong with providing educational material on how you can get nutrients without eating meat. But has anyone at PETA ever heard of pragmatism? When they see the world so black and white, they end up saying extreme things that turn people off. They need to approach things one item at a time and not try to change the entire world into their (tiny minority) view overnight.

Honestly, if they want to ask ice cream makers to use human milk, it really does no harm. B and J can just laugh at them and we can all call it a day. The only harm it does is to their credibility. They cannot ask them to do something this logistically impossible without selling them that it would be possible. Then it angers everyone and causes them to ignore any reasonable message they send. A worse thing they did (A story I read years ago) was go to a middle school and pass things out encouraging kids not to drink milk. Some kids are very impressionable and I am sure a few of those parents had to deal with the implications of getting calcium to a growing child. How can they possibly think that's going to be good PR?

Anyway, 90% of people will react like most of us did. They need to disband for a while and then come back with a new name and a PR department. Then they could do some actual good.

Dirtie_Frank

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DOSW

Uncle Leo wrote:

Anyway, 90% of people will react like most of us did. They need to disband for a while and then come back with a new name and a PR department. Then they could do some actual good.

That's true. It's a good cause with horrible, horrible execution.

justam

How do they think they're going to get enough human milk for that to work?
Is this a joke?

Anon

Uncle Leo wrote:

I firmly believe there is value to there being a viable animal rights group(s). There is nothing wrong with them doing things like educating people on the way that animals that we eat or that get tested are treated. There is certainly nothing wrong with providing educational material on how you can get nutrients without eating meat. But has anyone at PETA ever heard of pragmatism? When they see the world so black and white, they end up saying extreme things that turn people off. They need to approach things one item at a time and not try to change the entire world into their (tiny minority) view overnight.

Honestly, if they want to ask ice cream makers to use human milk, it really does no harm. B and J can just laugh at them and we can all call it a day. The only harm it does is to their credibility. They cannot ask them to do something this logistically impossible without selling them that it would be possible. Then it angers everyone and causes them to ignore any reasonable message they send. A worse thing they did (A story I read years ago) was go to a middle school and pass things out encouraging kids not to drink milk. Some kids are very impressionable and I am sure a few of those parents had to deal with the implications of getting calcium to a growing child. How can they possibly think that's going to be good PR?

Anyway, 90% of people will react like most of us did. They need to disband for a while and then come back with a new name and a PR department. Then they could do some actual good.

Exactly.
Being against animal cruelty is entirely different from endorsing scare tactics to scare kids and cause rebellion against family members. Like Peta's campaign 'Your Daddy Kills Animals," featuring a grinning psycho gutting a fish, and warns kids to keep their puppies and kittens away from Dad because he's "hooked on killing." Idiots.

Let's terrorize the kids and get them to distrust their parents and destroy the already flagging family structure. At least the animals will be saved.

Peta is a joke and i hope a fucking cow eats them.

melodious

Pj_Gurl wrote:

Exactly.
Like Peta's campaign 'Your Daddy Kills Animals," featuring a grinning psycho gutting a fish, and warns kids ....

so psychosinlove was posting as guttedfish here a while back...???

i knew it!!!!!!

You have to admit that PETA's campaign does make one think.

BetterThanYou

melodious wrote:

so psychosinlove was posting as guttedfish here a while back...???

i knew it!!!!!!

You have to admit that PETA's campaign does make one think.

the only thing i think is do they really buy into their own bullshit. as was said earlier, cruelty to animals isn't cool. but i don't need an organization to tell me that, i can figure it out on my own.

South of Seattle

Pj_Gurl wrote:

Peta is a joke and i hope a fucking cow eats them.

I'd order this on Pay-Per-View

JaneNY

justam wrote:

Is this a joke?

Uhh, yes. Think Jonathan Swift and A Modest Proposal type irony.

I think they got it wrong though - I don't want ice cream made from Human OR Cow milk. I want Ben and Jerry's soy milk ice cream please. Soy milk version of CHERRY GARCIA!

darkcrow

there was a really messed up documentry on TV (UK) the other day about mothers who breast fed their children.... beyond the usual age. I think the oldest was 8 or 9....