"The breast is best"

Daniel · 2 Oct 2008, 17:05

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.

guite · 2 Oct 2008, 17:26

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.

tomsdesk · 2 Oct 2008, 20:02

I don't understand why PETA doesn't think milking nursing mothers isn't cruel?

Stinkie · 2 Oct 2008, 22:03

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.

Phil Rader AIA · 3 Oct 2008, 04:12

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.

Gaieus · 4 Oct 2008, 06:33

@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!

remus · 4 Oct 2008, 06:43

I can imagine the headlines now "sudden influx of ice cream makers, for the breast?"

pbacot · 5 Oct 2008, 04:16

@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.

linea · 5 Oct 2008, 06:24

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.

Paris · 5 Oct 2008, 14:41

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

remus · 5 Oct 2008, 15:38

scream hint hint

Paris · 5 Oct 2008, 16:16

I volunteer to oversee quality control.

Mike Lucey · 5 Oct 2008, 18:34

.. 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!