Make Ice Cream From Breast Milk, Says Peta

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24404821-38198,00.html

September 26, 2008

PEOPLE for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged US ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's Homemade to replace cow's milk in ice cream products with breast milk.

"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 per cent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the animal rights group said

PETA officials say a move to breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their calves 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," PETA spokeswoman Tracy Reiman said.

"Everyone knows that the breast is best, so, Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favour by making the switch to breast milk."

Ben & 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."

[hanno]

Much as I care for animals it is statements like these that make me not take PETA seriously

[PhilHarries]

Great idea except the Swiss restauranteur has been stopped from doing it on public health grounds. Anyhow even if it were implemented we'd please PETA but have hordes of women's rights protesters screaming on about abuse of women.

If they object to the exploitation of animals to the extent that they find the use of cows milk in ice cream abhorrent is the concept of not eating ice cream too f###ing difficult to get into their thick heads.

Tracy Reiman must go down as numpty of the year.

btw how many women going for how long would it take to produce enough milk for a litre of ice cream?

[britmaveric]

Great idea - heaps of things are passed through human milk.

[lazeeboy]

i'll stop eating ice cream when that happens