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[syciprider]

Someone Snope this. It's strange even for PETA.

http://www.wptz.com/health/17539627/detail.html
PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

POSTED: 2:21 pm EDT September 23, 2008
UPDATED: 10:28 pm EDT September 23, 2008


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."

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

[FL Knifemaker]

As whacky as Ben and Jerry are, they'll probably go along with it

[Phalex]

******* Hippies!

[baba]

True and hilarious. B&J may be whacky, but they aren't stupid. No one is going to buy breast milk ice cream!!

[sarcastro83]

I'm all for not being cruel to animals, but I think PETA are mostly impossible to take seriously.

[fitbass3p]

Originally Posted by sarcastro83

I'm all for not being cruel to animals, but I think PETA are mostly impossible to take seriously.

+1, except when they're naked...

[tplyons]

Originally Posted by sarcastro83

I'm all for not being cruel to animals, but I think PETA are mostly impossible to take seriously.

I agree. PETA makes a lot of animal activists look like nutjobs.

[Baryonyx]

PETA are dangerous, a terrorist threat that should be taken as seriously as any other.

[Mark Latimour]

Ordinarily I'd find this hard to believe, but it is PETA.

[syciprider]

B&J's would probably call breast milk ice cream:

[spade2you]

Not a fan of PETA after a member threatened to kill me once. Ethical.....right.

[sarcastro83]

Originally Posted by fitbass3p

+1, except when they're naked...

see, I'm also all for nudity, but not when it's being used as some cheap ploy to try to push their nutjob agenda. Bunch of patchouli stinking nutters...

[Webtroll]

Hell no, PETA gets little more than scorn from me. A noble concept warped by fanatics and extremism. PETA would be a decent organization if it weren't for it's members.

[bongomania]

They're just trying to make a point, and I think they're using humor -like an Onion article- to do so. They don't actually want breast-milk ice cream, they want to call attention to their core issue, the cruel slavery of animals. The negative health impact of cow's milk on human children, and the opening of a breast-milk restaurant, are just being used to buttress the position that cows shouldn't be treated that way.

I agree in general PETA does some highly objectionable stuff and makes other animal-rights activists look bad. But in this case it seems more like a humorous attempt to make a point, rather than "real" craziness.

[mrokern]

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

[guy n. cognito]

You gotta love those little fruitcakes. They're good for a laugh every now and then.

They set the animal-rights movement back 50 years every time they put pen to paper.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Originally Posted by bongomania

They're just trying to make a point, and I think they're using humor -like an Onion article- to do so. They don't actually want breast-milk ice cream, they want to call attention to their core issue, the cruel slavery of animals. The negative health impact of cow's milk on human children, and the opening of a breast-milk restaurant, are just being used to buttress the position that cows shouldn't be treated that way.

I agree in general PETA does some highly objectionable stuff and makes other animal-rights activists look bad. But in this case it seems more like a humorous attempt to make a point, rather than "real" craziness.

I'm with bongo on this one.

And, as a VT resident most of the time, I can safely say that B&J doesn't give anything about what PETA thinks.

[Gard]

Originally Posted by mrokern

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

Now, that's a "PETA" I would be a member of....



...as for the "real" PETA, well, check youtube out for the Penn & Teller Bull$h!t episode for my opinion, they pretty much nailed it.

[BELLATOR]

Originally Posted by Gard

Now, that's a "PETA" I would be a member of....



...as for the "real" PETA, well, check youtube out for the Penn & Teller Bull$h!t episode for my opinion, they pretty much nailed it.

I agree. Here's a link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exLa6saV9o

[Dangle]

if they had to hire thousands of pregnant or new moms to pump boob juice i just want to know how in the world anyone would be able to afford their ice cream, i bet it would be delicious tho