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Would you eat ice cream made from human breast milk? [5 vote(s)]

Too right, I would! Mmmm.... Milk from boobies!
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Ew. By which I mean NO!!!
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[insert required 'opt out' option here].
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ddvmor


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PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk
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

So the big question here is... would you or wouldn't you?

And does it follow that having convinced B&J, PETA would then go on to persuade us to use breast milk in tea and coffee and on our cereal and in chocolate and cheese sandwiches...?

I see a whole industry of imported chinese breast milk developing! All supplied by 'volunteers', of course!

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Um, surely to produce enough for Ben & Jerry you'd need to replaced huge herds of cattle on milking machines to huge "herds" of lactating mothers on milking machines.

And I'm guessing (the ladies on the forum can confirm or deny this at will) that most women wouldn't want to voluntarily strap themselves into a mechanical milking machine pumping away at them for x hours a twice a day.

Given the lack of first world take up it would have to go thrid world, and then probably underground, which would lead to PETTWB (People for the Ethical Treatment of Third World Boobies) and while the adverts would be easier on the eye than a vivisection I'm guessing it's still not something we want.

Cat milk .. that's the way forward I tells ya

What? Yes doctor ... gotta go guys

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Edit : I should of course have read your last sentence before the diatribe ... I could have quoted that, said I agree and saved my typing fingers ...

-- Edited by Henglegert Rinkerdink at 13:04, 2008-09-26

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Henglegert Rinkerdink wrote:
I should of course have read your last sentence before the diatribe ... I could have quoted that, said I agree and saved my typing fingers
Yeah, but then you'd never have typed this:

Henglegert Rinkerdink wrote:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Third World Boobies
...and you'd never have got quoted at the top of the Bored Board, which is the single greatest honour a person can aspire to!

-- Edited by ddvmor at 14:11, 2008-09-26

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I am proud beyond all previous known levels :)

Much pleasedness!

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I was a bottle baby myself...I never had a tit in my mouth until I was eighteen...idea...Ben

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I was gonna answer "Ew... No way!" to that poll, but then I got wondering why I found the thought of human milk unpleasant. Thinking about it, milk from female cows could be considered much more grim than from female humans. Cows live in cow pat ridden fields, which they also eat grass from and hardly ever take a bath, and when they do it's more of a dip in chemicals with all the others... they probably eat a fair amount of their own poo... 



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