Posted by
Damien Blaze on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:33:24 PM
PETA Urges BEN & JERRY's To Use Human Milk...
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.
• Ad-table: class storyAd"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."
A few (not so serious) questions spring to mind:
- Is today April 1st?
- How can even the stridently PC crowd pretend to take PETA seriously after this?
- Where/how does one get enough breast milk to run an ice cream business?
- Is there even a market for breast milk ice cream?
- How long before the granola eating hippies, Ben & Jerry, get labeled as animal abusing, corporate fascists?