PETA is nucking futs.

[Evildrider]

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...   

[Cadaverine]

Penn & Teller: Bullshit on PETA

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

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

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

[Ookii]

A restaurant has been banned from serving up dishes containing human milk on the grounds that the "ingredient" derives from an unauthorised source.

The Storchen restaurant, in Iberg on the outskirts of Winterthur, had advertised for mothers to sell their breast milk for the special menu. But breastfeeding counsellors had labelled the project unethical.

The idea was eventually scrapped after canton Zurich food inspectors said it broke regulations, and threatened to take action. "Humans are not on the list of authorised milk suppliers such as cows or sheep," said department head Rolf Etter.

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

[Hawkbit]

In the right corner:  PETA!

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

Fight!

[Salamok]

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!

[Ingmar]

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.

[Mr_PeaCH]

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.

[Salamok]

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.

[Stormwaltz]

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

[FatuousTwat]

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!

[K9]

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.

[Samwise]

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

[Daeven]

In the right corner:  PETA!

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

Fight!

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

[Abagadro]

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.

[Jeff Kelly]

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.

[Tebonas]

Thats beyond retarded.

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

[K9]

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

[Tebonas]

Yeah, but Breast Milk Ice Cream?

[Hawkbit]

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. 

[Ironwood]

That's mostly because of the cold.

[Sky]

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



Also, PETA hates them some plants. Savages!

[Oban]

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

[HaemishM]

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

[Nebu]

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.

[Sky]

Maybe Janet Jackson could endorse a chocolate variety.

[Numtini]

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

[Merusk]

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.

[HaemishM]

Lactation porn. 

[Mrbloodworth]

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.

Look at your avatar.

[Samwise]

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.

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.

[caladein]

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.

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?

[Oban]

prions

[Cyrrex]

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.

[K9]

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

[Tebonas]

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.

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