PETA wants Ben & Jerry's to use breast milk

[Kamie]

PETA wants Ben & Jerry's to use breast milk (http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=9068110&nav=23ii)
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=9068110&nav=23ii

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is suggesting that ice cream be made with human breast milk instead of cow milk.
PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman made the suggestion in a letter sent to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream. In the letter, Reiman said the idea is based on plans by a restaurant in Switzerland that is set to unveil a menu that includes food made with at least 75 percent breast milk.
Reiman says cows only produce milk right before and after pregnancy, so they are forcibly impregnated every nine months.
Ben & Jerry's spokeswoman Liz Brenna says that while the company applauds PETA's novel approach to bring attention to this issue, the company believes a human mother's milk is best used for her child.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)





I am with Ben & Jerry's on this one.


PETA is a bunch of idiots.

[Canon]

Only if the women have to be put into the same, albeit modified, apparatus that the cows are supposed to endure. :)

























pix pls

[OreoCookieSP]

pix pls

rofl. It's the internet. Can't be too hard.

[PeregrineFalcon]

Personally I think it weirder that we drink another animals milk. Forget whether the milk is for your child or not, how about milk for the same species. I'm not saying I want to drink another woman's breast milk, but I think this is ingenious idea and I wouldn't be against trying it. I bet it is much healthier than anything a cow has to offer.


PETA is a bunch of people with ideas that go against the grain, good for them.

[Doc Wattson]

do they realize how much milk they'd need for BJ's Ice Cream? They line up like 5000 women for 8 hour shifts of milking....

FAP FAP FAP

-Gary-

[saitn]

milk is gross.

[stormFury]

Personally I think it weirder that we drink another animals milk. Forget whether the milk is for your child or not, how about milk for the same species. I'm not saying I want to drink another woman's breast milk, but I think this is ingenious idea and I wouldn't be against trying it. I bet it is much healthier than anything a cow has to offer.


PETA is a bunch of people with ideas that go against the grain, good for them.

ROFL

[Canon]

But then the women would have to have a government regulated diet.

i.e.: no cheetos, whoppers, and peruvian seedless watermelon or whatever other dietary abominations their hormonal appetites demand of them.

[zimzat]

Otherwise you may have ice cream that tastes like pickles?

[Mountain_Dew-R-]

Freaking wackos...

[Kamie]

But then the women would have to have a government regulated diet.

i.e.: no cheetos, whoppers, and peruvian seedless watermelon or whatever other dietary abominations their hormonal appetites demand of them.


actually, you are right here. the woman who were supplying this would have to have pretty much no medications (prescription or OTC) and eat a very specific diet. you would not want to drink the milk of someone who was taking high blood pressure or seizure medication for instance.

donating breast milk to milk banks for making the special fortifiers and milks for premature and very sick infants requires some very strict standards. the milk banks turn down 95% of the offers because of medication and health issues with the woman donating. if she takes something as simple as tyenol, they will not accept any milk from her for 24 hours after she takes the medication.

so my stance on this is pretty much until all the premature and very sick infants get easy access to donated breast milk, i do not think that we really need to have it in ice cream or other things. if someone is allergic to milk, there are other replacements for dairy like soy, almond, and rice milks.

PETA is just trying to get attention and make a statement.

[Long Black Veil]

Can't we clone human breast milk? If not we should be able to soon.

[Canon]

That's not how cloning works.

/rub

[Long Black Veil]

Sure, just inject it into a bacteria.

[Canon]

http://antisanity.net/images/lolCow.jpg

[Moto]

peta = evil extremist biding their time.

[smokeh]

'biding' their time?

[Canon]

I lol'd too but I wasn't going to call him on it.

[smokeh]

well, i could have seen 'buying' their time maybe

but what is bying?

[Moto]

English is second langauge to me and i dont have a first. Rather sad i know.

[ferret]

That was almost clever.

[Moto]

why almost?

[Canon]

why almost?

Because you didn't quite make it...

[smokeh]

English is a second langauge to me and i dont have a first. Rather sad i know.

fixed

also, that's about as witty as saying ITS ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE LULULULUMAD