Friday, September 26, 2008

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. "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." In a statement Ben and Jerry's 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." -------------------------------------------------------------------- How would ice creams produced with human milk taste? I think I'll definitely give it a try when I get the chance.

1 comment:

cybrbeast said...

OMG, that is ridiculous. Just imagine how much this would cost. Maybe as crazy luxury delicatessen.

And it would move from the exploitation of animals, though dairy cow are treated quite well (in The Netherlands at least), to the exploitation of humans. I would see most milk coming from China or other poor countries where they would exploit woman for this.

Would like to try human milk though :)