"The breast is best"
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September 23rd PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cow's milk in their products with human breast milk. 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. PETA points out to Cohen and Greenfield that such a move on their part 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."
@unknownuser 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," spokesman Sean Greenwood said in an e-mail.
I can just see the slogan if they actually complied:
"It's Double D-licious" -
I saw that last week - got quite a laugh in the office. What I can't understand is why PETA thinks milking dairy cows is cruel.
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This is sick! Starve our babies for the sake of calves? Just because they got their priorities wrong does not mean they should try to force it on others.
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I don't understand why PETA doesn't think milking nursing mothers isn't cruel?
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Errr ... anyone else seeing a whole new kind of career opportunities at the horizon? "Hold still, ma'am, this won't hurt a bit."
Animal rights peeps - I love 'em.
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I thought women have spent countless years trying to get us to think about them as whole human beings and NOT to treat them as an assembly of body parts.
Having said that however There are numerous ideas floating in my head right now involving the process of making ice cream in this newly proposed manner that I find quite appealing.
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@unknownuser said:
...Having said that however There are numerous ideas floating in my head right now involving the process of making ice cream in this newly proposed manner that I find quite appealing.
Yup, too scoops for me!
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I can imagine the headlines now "sudden influx of ice cream makers, for the breast?"
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@unknownuser said:
This is sick! Starve our babies for the sake of calves? Just because they got their priorities wrong does not mean they should try to force it on others.
No-- it's for the sake of ICE CREAM. Where are your priorities?
Seriously, although I have been into organic foods, and was vegetarian for quite awhile, I never understood these "natural" arguments. I would encounter many people who would say it is not natural for grown people to drink any milk--look at other animals.
Other animals don't drink milk because THEY CAN'T GET IT! Humans do a lot of things other animals don't. Most omnivores would love milk if they can get it, and possibly herbivores too.
And on the other hand, animals in any situation can be abused. Dairies can be good and bad. PETA should concentrate on those issues (if this is indeed a real situation and not a joke). If it was a real campaign, I think it was meant to be absurd on purpose.
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I don't think drinking milk is wrong or unhealthy but the fact that no other animal drinks it after infancy can't just be put down to them lacking the opposable thumbs to open the cartons. Or maybe it can. But adult animals could still suckle other animals if they wanted milk.
I'm not a pillar of health but I haven't drank milk for about 20 years (no particular ethical reasons, just don't like the stuff) and I don't have any deficiencies that I know of.
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
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scream hint hint
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I volunteer to oversee quality control.
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.. this is very funny. I needed a laugh. I can't see
it taking off though. Opps, no matter what I saw here
its going to have a double meaning, Oppps again!All joking aside, I think we tend to laugh at this
subject because breasts and usually hidden but at the
same time made quite obvious that they are there, well
most of time anyway! I remember reading that the human
female is unique in the animal world in so far that
they have enlarged breasts permanently!I wonder how some Amazon Tribe would look at this
proposal? Like the Jaguar People below!
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