PETA is asking world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to begin using human breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product. "We're aware this idea is somewhat absurd, and that putting it into practice is a stretch. At the time same, it's pretty absurd for us to be drinking the milk of cows," said Ashley Byrne, a campaign coordinator for PETA. Um, I think human breast milk is way more absurd of an idea. Ben & Jerry's thinks the idea is udderly ridiculous, while some customers call it "creepy" and "nutty." ( AP)
This is merely the pathetic bozos at PETA sitting around dreaming up something that gets attention and boosts donation. Other than that it is nothing but, hey,it works.
Why is PETA asking for this. They are People Eating Tasty Animals, so I think they would love cow's milk.
Trust me, from experience, breast milk is best enjoyed by babies.
Sometimes PETA goes over the top. They could probably attract more supporters if they'd quit being so extreme.
I agree with PETA!! Let's enslave millions of women all over the world, instead of cows, get them pregnant and increase the world's population, just so Ben & Jerry's can use human breast milk instead. Good plan PETA!
BWAW HAW HAW!!!
How "udderly" laughable... In keeping with the "thought provoking" Joke PETA has played here (Mostly on themselves) and the creative names Ben & Jerry's comes up with for thier Ice Cream Flavors, what would they name the Breast Milk Ice Cream? "Memories of Mama's Mammeries"?
PETA, come on.. Focus on some real issues, like the fact that criminal dog fighting still takes place... Or is cooperating with law enforcement to save the lives of some animals too below you? Best leave the REAL fight for animals to the ASPCA... They would never make a joke of it.
I just had the vision of women with huge breasts hooked up to a milking machine while reading the Enquirer... oh my....
Are they accepting applications for milkmen?
I was a vegetarian back in the 80's (because I grew up on a farm in the 60's and 70's, and hated eating animals that I felt attached to), back when the popular definition of "vegetarian" was not eating red meat.
I used to tease my "vegetarian" friends relentlessly with the following: "If meat is murder, then milk is manslaughter."
Sometime in the 90's, all kinds of flavors of vegetarianism sprouted (haha) up, like lacto and ovo and pesco... Then, towards the very end of the 90's, the militant vegans showed up. Those patchoulli-smelling, non-showering, bike-riding neohippies ruined all of my fun.
I'm going to LMAO when iPhones are linked to increased risk of cancer.
PETA should focus on real issues concerning real animal cruelty(dog fighting, spay/neuter problems)and spend money on those issues. So why is it okay to hook a woman up to a machine and not a cow? GOD put animals on this planet for humans to use and consume. You can't fight GOD on that one.PETA needs to worry about real issues. It would be much less beneficial healthwise to use breast milk than cows milk. There are many diseases transferred through breast milk and I do not want to drink DNA from a person I don't know. Besides there alternatives like soymilk or almond milk.PETA may be trying to help but they need to try a little harder than that.
Yes we might be getting heart disease and cancer from steroid pumped cows but I would rather get that then get HIV(unknowingly)from breast milk. Atleast with cancer or heart disease you can't pass that onto someone else like you can HIV or some other disease(Hepatitis B,C).
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit....
Cost to produce Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry's, using human milk:
The standard for ice cream, to be ice cream, is that it must weigh 4.5 pounds per gallon. It takes 12 pounds of cow's milk to make one gallon of ice cream(IC). Now, assuming that human milk and bovine milk has the same density (which they do not due to diet and chemical make up differences), a gallon of milk weighs 8.61 pounds. So, using the formula; pounds of milk to make a gallon of IC divided by weight of one gallon of milk, that would equal 1.39 gallons of milk to a gallon of IC (12 / 8.61 = 1.39)
Using the standard conversion of 128oz per gallon, and the target human breast milk production for 24 hrs (~20oz) we find that it would require 8.92 women to create the milk needed to produce one gallon of IC. Simple extrapolation shows how this number becomes even more absurd when we see how many women would be required to fill just one of the four (4) six thousand gallon storage tanks at Ben & Jerry's Waterbury Factory in one day. 8.92 women per gallon/day X 6000 gal. storage tank = 53,521.5 women.
The numbers becomes even more economically unfeasible when we find out that the cost of human breast milk on the open market is ~$3 per ounce. A number assured to go through the roof when Ben & Jerry's starts to purchase the supplies in banks around the country. The cost to fill one storage tank at the Waterbury facility: ($3 X 128 oz) X 6000 gal. = $2.3 million.
What must we then do with all of those out-of-work cows? Can't afford to keep feeding them; I guess we'd have to eat them. Their plan has a somewhat sinister side to it... Do you suppose PETA is secretly invested in McDonald's?
We think too much. God forgive us if we ever make a mistake!!! Logic keeps us from enjoying the simple pleasures of life.