Really PETA? Seriously?

[gamecat]

O.k., this might be the most rediculous thing i’ve read.

I’m all for vegetarians and vegans doing what ever they want.
But this is getting weird.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/17539627/detail.html

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.”

Read PETA’s letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

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 to 17 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_Sloth]

fucking tards

i’ll send PETA an e-mail saying stop being fucktards and leave us ‘animal haters’ alone

[goldenroad]

They should call themselves People for the Unethical Treatment of Women…but then that doesn’t make me nearly as hungry as PETA…

[charlieJack]

drinking human breastmilk sounds like a weird thing to start doing again.

[KDF4LYPHE]

man, this thread makes me want to suck on some titties

really bad

[charlieJack]

bon appetite!

[willbreathes]

Imagine what B&J’s prices will be when they have to find 18-year old virgins to produce the milk.

[drbadgely]

I say do it. Charge $100.00 for a limited-edition pint. Awareness is gonna cost you!

They could have a Pink Floyd endorsement and call it “Breast Milky.”

[El_Bastarde]

^Or Atom Heart Mother?

Yeah, I’m big on animals not being abused (anti-horse racing, rodeos, etc) but PETA makes other animal rights people look SO bad with this type of stuff.

I was seriously thinking of how they would pull this off? I mean cows that give milk basically spend their ENTIRE lives giving milk. I mean that’s ALL they do. Plus they do the milking with machines now. You’d basically have to employ a caste system in which the lowest of low class women get drafted to these milk farms where they spend their entire lives sitting on crappy, cheap houses and being hooked up to some machine a few times a day around the clock to produce milk…and you’d need a TON of chicks since there’s no way they’d produce as much milk as a cow. Glad to see that PETA is endorcing slavery. Good times…

Stevo

[Funky_Begonia]

How this really should have been dealt with…

Dear PETA,
Go fuck yourself.

Love Always,
Ben and Jerry

Seriously, I think PETA likes to think of the most ridiculous things just for the hell of it. Its like a big contest who can come up with the craziest complaints about animals. Thank you for playing!
And I wouldn’t even want anything to do with women who are desperate enough for money to milk themselves. I wouldn’t even want to drink out of the same glass as them, let alone give them a high five.
What is this world coming to.
And all this talk of cows is making me hungry!!

[jawbone]

being a vegetarian and part time vegan i can say that Ben & Jerry’s is awesome and promises on their cartons the humane treatment of the cows they get their milk from.

Peta just gets bored sometimes.

[the_Sloth]

Peta gets bored?

they get more desperate than an eunuch in a pool full of bare breasted virgins screaming “do me!”.

[goldenroad]

I finally read that whole article and I’ve got to say, I’ve never been so disgusted and turned on at the same time.

Doesn’t PETA realize that by sending this kind of letter, they are in essence making themselves into an irrelevant joke?

[lovelight]

Hmmm. My perception of PETAs intentions here are a bit different.
I think they were simply trying to shed light on the cruel conditions that unfortunately exist.
I am a vegetarian and when someone is curious or willing to listen, I will share what I know and believe to be true. I agree, sometimes certain organizations are a bit far fetched for most people… but please dont let it shape your opinion on the rest of us.

I send this out of love and respect. <3

[Killer_Rob]

I always wonder about where Peta stands on bugs. You know, like cockroaches, spiders, flies shit like that…

I always wonder if the Peta president is out on a 4th of July picnic, and a mosquito lands on his/her arm and bites him, does he smash the mosquito into a squashed pancake, or does he take the pain and accept the mosquito’s right to feed?

Basically, is the mosquito protected just like a cow, or does Peta help murder those little irritating bastards like the rest of us?

[gregradiohead]

Their organization gives true and sensible vegetarians and people who care about animals a bad name. Fuck Peta.

[El_Bastarde]

I heard some MLB player on the Phillies said that he liked some spam dish in his “player profile” as his favorite food and PETA sent him a letter about the horrors of spam factories and such. These people are nuts. Seriously, they really do give actual animal-lovers a bad name.

Stevo

[jamphandan]

shane victorino!!!

it’s ok though cuz he’s from hawaii

[Emmet_Grogan]

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.”

Well played.

[OlfactoryHue]

victorino is the man