PETA calls for...

daver · September 2008

...Ben & Jerry's to start using human breast milk in their ice cream instead of cow's milk.

September 23, 2008

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Cofounders
Ben & 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 breast milk 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 breast milk, 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 breast milk. 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 breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President

"The breast is best!"

Who's up for a trip to Storchen?

the invisible lines · September 2008

That's, uh . . . wow. PETA should start writing articles for the Onion.

calm head · September 2008

the amount of milk needed to make the amount of ice cream Ben & Jerry's produce can not be sustained by paying women to become cows. I'm not saying the conditions for the cows aren't bad but there is nothing wrong with using cows for food and milk. We are not designed to be vegitarians.

dapearl9 · September 2008

Will it have an interesting celebrity name, like "Pat Benatar's Chocolate Chip Me With Your Breast Shot"?

modsquad · September 2008

I think I'll be a goin' into agriculture.

stac0723 · September 2008

EEEW!

romana · September 2008

dapearl9 wrote: Will it have an interesting celebrity name, like "Pat Benatar's Chocolate Chip Me With Your Breast Shot"?

Ew.

My milkshake brings the boys to the yard

shishkab · September 2008

how about breast milk yogurt, or breast milk cheese? oh wait, here is one failed attempt...

http://www.indrani.net/index.php?q=2006/03/breast_milk_cheese

idlewild · September 2008

A Carton of Dolly Parton.

bohuma · September 2008

I think they've watched Borat once too often. I don't like PETA, I think they're extremists and I don't place any weight on anything they say, write or do. I take my animal care advice from the ASPCA and Humane Societies.