Proving they are just a bunch of boobs in need of attention, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals used a news release to urge the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream to replace cow’s milk in their products with human breast milk.
You read it right: PETA, whose antics been featured in several posts on this blog, wants the Vermont-based ice cream maker to use human breast milk — instead of milk from cows — as the key ingredient in their world-famous frozen concoctions.
After reading the PETA news release, I found myself laughing at the thought of liberal ice cream entrepreneurs Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield scratching their heads over the radical animal rights group’s latest publicity effort.
PETA’s opportunistic effort surfaced in the wake of news reports like this one about a Swiss restaurant owner who 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.
Fully acting the parts of the out-of-their-minds liberals they truly are, PETA points out that adoption of such a practice by Cohen and Greenfield would “lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health at the same time.”
“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.”
If Ben & Jerry’s opts to use human breast milk in place of milk from cows, two results are virtually guaranteed:
- The rate of employment among Vermont women of child-bearing age should rise; and
- The price of beef in Vermont should drop, at least for a short time, after most of the dairy cows previously used to supply the ice cream company become beef products.
[Editor's Note: I apologize that I could not find a way to weave my CO2ws merchandise into this story without it appearing to be a crass commercial plug. That aside, please know that I will make every effort to keep you abreast of further developments related to this story.]
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1 Paul Green // Sep 26, 2008 at 7:44 am
This innovative idea has a tremendous amount of potential. Women all over the world could supplement family incomes in the most natural way, making daily visits to milking stations to sell their surplus milk resolving the unemployment crunch and establishing an entire new industry.
Milking stations employing hundreds of thousands of workers world-wide could be set up for collection and processing.
The possibilities for restaurants are huge. The product line could be used for custards, cheese, yogurt, butter, creamy salad dressings, and sauces. Natural food stores would jump on this, too spurring the manufacturing and sales of new display cases and signage
2 whatinthenameof // Sep 30, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I am no longer a 1 year old baby. That’s about the time my taste for breast milk began to dissipate, and has yet to return. What’s next? The seem to have left out…. Breast milk shakes? Sour (breast milk) cream & onion potato chips? Bagels and cream breast milk cheese? Nothing like a big bowl of cereal with some nice cold breast milk for breakfast. YUCK! No. For me, hold the booby-juice please. PETA really are a bunch of whack-jobs. I mean, they always were, but, they are really going all the way here with this newest edition of idiocy. I really believe PETA values animal life ABOVE human. If they could, I think they would, have human dairy farms. Forcibly if need be.
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