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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




WTF... PETA is retarded...   :ye_gods:

Penn & Teller: Bullshit on PETA

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsHUBEfBNMo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsHUBEfBNMo)

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Eo4KtBJFc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Eo4KtBJFc)

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXjwDqz4gWM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXjwDqz4gWM)

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front.html?siteSect=109&ty=st&sid=9744046&front=br (http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front.html?siteSect=109&ty=st&sid=9744046&front=br)

In the right corner:  PETA!

In the left corner:  La Leche League and Amnesty International!

Fight!

so can we get a list of drugs that make the journey from blood to milk in force.  Then we can start seeing some truly wacky ben and jerry's recipes?  Wavy Gravy indeed!

As a far-left crazy person, I hate PETA. They're not an environmentalist group but lots of people think they are and they end up tainting the entire movement with their brand of crazy.

The way I've always heard it explained is that the PETAs and the Earth First!s are sometimes necessary in that, after people get a chance to see the real crazies in action, the not-quite-so-extremes seem pretty reasonable by comparison.  But I can see it your way too.

Sure wish the bill of rights had included the right to choose not to be bombarded by the whackjobs messages.  The freedom not to listen should always go hand in hand with free speech.

I expect PETA's next press release to call for humans to breathe less often, so there's more air for the animals.

You are fuckin' A right! STOP BREATHING THAT SLUG'S AIR! STOP! STOP IT! MOM!

The amount of credibility awarded to PETA makes me sick. Animal Right's Activists are some of the most fucked up people in society and I have zero time for them.

I dunno, I can get behind some of their stunts.

(http://o.aolcdn.com/feedgallery/india/i/p/peta_hens_08/21_peta_hens_2706_430xx.jpg):hello_thar:

The only way to win....  is to kill them all and take their stuff.

PETA does have a great ability to convince young, stupid hotties to not wear clothes (I approved a permit for just such an event a couple of weeks ago). So they got that going for them. But other than that they are completely worthless.

Not that I don't agree with the basic premise of not treating animals cruelly bu I don't get people that care more about animals than they care about people.

I'd rather they fought with the same fervor for the ethical treatment of people than they were for animals.

Thats beyond retarded.

Are they getting paid to destroy the credibility of animal activists?

I think they guys who were digging up corpses and firebombing nurseries ere destroying that credibility pretty well.

Yeah, but Breast Milk Ice Cream?

I'd just like to point out that while eating ice cream made from boobies is creepy, eating ice cream off of boobies is pretty cool. 

That's mostly because of the cold.

The image of boobie ice cream is completely ruined when paired with the image of PETA.

(http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/08eca0e67e_ltp19anim1.jpg)

Also, PETA hates them some plants. Savages!

I cooked a prime grass-fed Red Angus rib-eye steak last night, it was quite good.

If I'm ever forced to go cannibal, I hope my first meal can be a PETA activist.

Bob and Tom used this as an opportunity to come up with new Ice cream names containing breast milk in the spirit of Ben & Jerry's.  My favorite: Thanks for the mammaries.

Maybe Janet Jackson could endorse a chocolate variety.

Someone should probably tell them Ben & Jerry sold the business and aren't involved anymore.

Now time for the "question that you have to stop and think about:"

Why do you find it creepy to drink breast milk, but find it perfectly acceptable to drink the milk of a farm animal.  Assume both are pasteurized and quality-checked for funky crap.

Lactation porn.  :awesome_for_real:

Look at your avatar.

I think the main creepy thing about it is the disease risk associated with a stranger's bodily fluids.  I'd be fine with human milk if I could be absolutely sure I wasn't going to catch anything from it.

Are there any heat-resistant, human-carried pathogens that can't simply be tested for before you're cleared for commercial breast-milk production?

prions

Not to mention that, at a guess anyway, you'd never, ever be able to come close to being able to find enough breast milk donors to meet the demands of the ice cream market, not to mention the other billions of things milk is put into.  And imagine what a gallon of ice cream would cost.

I'd try breast milk ice cream if it were offered to me.

The same reason I love me some juicy Angus silverslide while refraining from eating human meat.

I was watching current (satellite station) and saw this story. Someone's comment was "They should make celebrity flavours!".

Necroing cause I found this pretty funny.  PETA is enraged that the latest Mario game has Mario in a Tanooki suit (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/249812/20111115/mario-enrages-peta-raccoon-tanooki-suit-tanuki.htm).


 :why_so_serious:

They've gone after BF3 as well. Apparently someone in PETA actually managed to play through the SP part to find this gem:


The title of this thread doesn't even begin to describe how nuts they must be to unironically mean whatever it is they vomit forth.

If they don't like BF3 they are REALLY going to hate skyrim  :grin:

Much better if we are only slaughter humans and are trying to ethnically cleanse other races.     :oh_i_see:

I'm not quite sure what to make of PETA. They're quite willing to kill animals (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/03/peta_kills_95_o.html) and then turn around and ask people to go to ludicrous lengths to not harm animals.

I'm suspecting that they're a performance art group, like Flash Mobs, only retarted instead of clever.

My friend's dad used to do a pretty good business with People for The Eating Tasty Animals t-shirts till he got a nasty letter from a lawyer. 

Yeah a lot of times when they go in and 'rescue' animals from hoarders and such they turn right around and destroy them - and they in fact have a habit of working specifically and directly against the no-kill movement. It is utterly baffling to me.

It probably has something to do with the fact that they're insane.

Why? Did he infringe on any copyrights?

After Skyrim, I am now very completely inured to the brutal killing of dragons. I'd even eat their meat and wear their skins! I am contributing to the insane brutalization of dragons! I'm not even a young male, I'm an OLD MALE. OCCUPY the GREYBEARDS!

Edit: Heh wrong thread.

Probably not.  But it was around the same time that they managed to get peta.com away from a guy that used it for his People for the Eating of Tasty Animals website.  So he didn't feel like seeing what would happen if he kept on selling them.

That is... goddamn insane.

I think a lot of it gets sort of justified by them on the grounds that it is crueller for animals to be kept in captivity than to be killed and so cats and dogs will be better off destroyed than rehoused, which also goes to their long term goal of making keeping pets illegal. There's a lot of crazy shit when you get down to the people actually driving PETA's agenda way beyond a lot of their active membership being assholes who spend their whole lives protesting people for eating honey that involves the exploitation of bees or whatever.

I believe their rationalization is that keeping animals is slavery, but domesticated animals cannot survive well (or at all) without humans, so it's more "humane" to kill them. It's hard to track down an offical response, as PETA killing thousands of animals every year is something I imagine they don't want to comment on.

I'm a fan of hot naked chicks in cages.  Maybe that came out wrong....

--Dave

PETA is solidly positioned at the place where conferring rights on animals goes totally incoherent. E.g., it's one thing to say, "Don't be cruel" and another to say, "animals have rights substantially indistinguishable from those of humans". As soon as you even get close to that, all carnivorous animals become murderers unless you invoke the "it's in their nature" clause. But if you invoke that, then: a) domestic animals whose 'nature' is now to be co-resident with and dependent upon human beings ought to be a non-problem philosophically and b) at least some human consumption and use of animals ought to be as much of a non-problem as ants farming aphids is: e.g., it is in our nature.

No, because they'll counter-argue that getting protein from animals is only acceptable from animals because they have neither the cognitive ability or technology to understand they can get it from other sources.   It's in our nature to kill when angered but we don't accept that as unavoidable. We must advance past such a base reaction and move on to a more enlightened state and embrace plant protein.

 :awesome_for_real:

I always argued at least animals can run away. Shame on them for stalking poor defenseless carrots like that.