Possibly the most bizarre suggestions in the history of bizarre suggestions after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals suggested Ben & Jerry's use breastmilk to make ice cream.The animal charity sent a letter to Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc urging it to replace the cow's milk they use (like normal people) in their ice cream products with human breastmilk.It is not only bizarre it is clearly stupid. Where are you going to get it all from as everyone knows that women don't exactly produce endless lakes of milk. I could be wrong on this, but I don't think they are holding much back. The whole thing was sparked by a Swiss restaurant owner who said he would begin purchasing breastmilk from nursing mothers and substituting breastmilk for 75% of the cow's milk in the food he serves.I have no idea why he would do that. He's Swiss maybe that's all you need to know. PETA's line is that a move to human breastmilk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and benefit human health. It's part of its Milksucks campaign.
What is it hoping for sheds full of women? Who knows, but would anyone drink it? Tracy Reiman, Peta executive vice president, said: "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. Everyone knows that 'the bre-ast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favour by making the switch to breastmilk."Fortunately while those good people from Ben & Jerry's have a care for the things that count (world peace et cetera) they see the problems with Peta's novel idea:"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," said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry's.Read PETA's letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry GreenfieldSeptember 23, 2008Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, CofoundersBen & 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 breastmilk 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 breastmilk, 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 breastmilk. 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 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can't even turn around.The bre-ast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to *** milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.Sincerely,Tracy ReimanExecutive Vice President
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PETA are all bonkers.
They tried to ban fish in the restaurant of the London Aquarium because it might stress out live fish if they saw people eating fish & chips.
Maddest charity on the planet.
That is a mad idea. I think Ben & Jerry's profits would plummet if they started using *** milk. No thanks.
Are they real?
Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breastmilk.
Let's see if that menu will be running in two weeks time. No I'm not taking any bets.
It sounds like some Hammer movie, Hans Locher, the owner of the Storchen restaurant, said: “The idea first came to me when I noticed that there were many young mothers in our village, some of them single. I thought to myself: why not make use of their potential? I served the meals to my friends without telling them about the new ingredient and the feedback was excellent.”
Without telling people? OMFG.
I just hope it doesn't find its way into the newly-revived Arctic Roll!
No that "natural" stuff would ruin all the tasty E numbers that kept kids bouncing around for hours in the 70s/80s.
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