Will Ice Cream Made From Breast Milk Be Served in Two Scoops?
"This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cow's milk in their products with human breast milk."
That's from the official website of PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It's apparently in the wake of news reports that a restaurant owner in Switzerland plans to buy breast milk to use in soups, stews and sauces.
Their site claims it's cruel to keep cattle locked up, forcibly impregnating cows every nine months just to keep up milk production.
Would their solution mean milk-supplying women would have to be impregnated every nine months?
Apparently not. It appears that woman will continue producing breast milk as long as they're nursing, as the Veronika Robinson case points out (she breastfed her daughters until they voluntarily stopped breast feeding at age 7, one of them almost 8 years old who asked for it again on her 9th birthday.) PETA claims breast milk is not only better for the animals, but for people.
If this becomes a trend, it leaves us with a very large question: what about yogurt, or milk itself? A cow can produce many times the milk that a human woman can. Where would all that milk come from?
Read the PETA letter and comments at http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=11993
See a short video about Veronika Robinson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHRyRCHuQ7g and Robinson's corrections to some of the video at http://www.themothermagazine.co.uk/extraordinarybreastfeeding.html (thanks to Einley for pointing these out at http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=844263 )
Comments
Mother always said "breast is best!" But I don't know where all that milk will come from either. Women don't make it like cows!
Posted by: TawTew the Naturally Perfumed | September 26, 2008 05:25 AM
I'll have two scoops of vanilla, please.
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | September 27, 2008 05:38 AM
It seems weird having milk from a woman in ur ice cream. But really why is that weirder than having milk from a cow?
Posted by: Lorien Loveshade | September 28, 2008 06:19 AM
This might work if women were like cows with 4 breasts! lol
Posted by: Perlie the Pony Girl | September 28, 2008 01:22 PM
Personally, I'd rather get my milk from a chao. Unless I can get the milk personally. Got milk?
Posted by: Prince Discord | September 29, 2008 07:27 PM
This is just wrong. Wanting to drink a woman's breast milk? If that's not lust, I don't know what is.
Posted by: Christian Andy | September 30, 2008 11:31 PM
That's right, Christian Andy. We know all those babies sucking on Mommy's titties have nothing but sex on their minds.
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | October 2, 2008 03:58 AM
Is this for real? Is Ben and Jerry's really going to do this?
Posted by: Gary | October 2, 2008 06:35 PM
Doesn't say they'd do it, Gary, just said they've been asked. That's a PETA thing, always doing off the wallness for publicity.
Posted by: Hey It's Me Bob | October 3, 2008 04:36 AM
Please let it happen Please let it happen Please let it happen Please let it happen Please let it happen
Posted by: Harold the Blue | October 4, 2008 01:03 AM
Can I have my two scoops with two cherries on top?
Posted by: Purely Juvenile | December 24, 2008 02:34 PM
Personally, I'll take two scoops of chocolate.
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Posted by: For_ex_stra_tegy | December 2, 2009 11:30 AM
This blog rocks - I love the fact that you say it like it is! What this is a publicity scam. Two scoops indeed.
Posted by: Cortez | January 6, 2010 05:46 PM
ha? this is the first time i heard such a thing like this.. breast milk can be made to be ice cream.
just wondering what would be the taste on that...
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