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PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:14 pm
by Kramer
Ummmmm.......

what the fuck.

WATERBURY, Vt. -- 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."

"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," said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry's.




Also, that Swiss restaraunt was banned from using the human milk...

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:16 pm
by Harrison
I fucking despise PETA.

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:17 pm
by leah
:ugh:

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:26 pm
by Drem
leah wrote::ugh:

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:27 pm
by ClakarEQ
I have to think peta did this just to get some headlines, although . . .

we are the only organism on the planet that "something elses" milk. LOL

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:36 pm
by Harrison
We're also the only animals that cook their food, so does that make cooking your food wrong?

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:42 pm
by Drem
when a cow can walk up to me and get pissed that i'm drinking his wife's milk i'll care

how long do you guys think it'll take til someone makes a stink about stepping on ants ? place your bets now

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:48 pm
by Kramer
this is what PETA is good for

Image

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:52 pm
by Drem
/fap

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:06 pm
by ClakarEQ
Drem wrote:/fap
Nnnnnooooo, think of the children

ok sorry LOL

I bet that chic got fired.

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:35 pm
by Harrison
I just ate steak to spite a hippie. It was fucking tasty.

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:53 pm
by Trielelvan
(edit: didn't mean to quote the first post)
We should start a letter writing campaign to the PETA stating how in horribly short supply human breast milk is already, making sure to bring attention to the fact that this request by them would be taking away from human children who are desperately in need of it..
The banks that supply it for mothers of sickly infants in the NICU, extreme premature babies, mothers who can not breastfeed or produce no milk, multiple births, etc. are constantly in need of suppliers.
Fight fire with fire :hiphop:

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:03 pm
by Blackdiam
Guess Pita doesn't know that Ben and Jerry don't own Ben and Jerry's any more

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:41 pm
by Tikker
I didn't want anything to do with my GF's breast milk, let alone random strangers...

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:59 pm
by brinstar
dumb idea PETA

i am highly against wearing fur as fashion though. i mean i obviously wouldn't dogsled up to the yukon and tell inuits to buy synthetic fleece instead, but millionaire fucks don't need to be buying that shit, it's retarded

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:38 pm
by Tikker
brinstar wrote:dumb idea PETA

i am highly against wearing fur as fashion though. i mean i obviously wouldn't dogsled up to the yukon and tell inuits to buy synthetic fleece instead, but millionaire fucks don't need to be buying that shit, it's retarded



I'm sure you own no leather belts or shoes then

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:10 pm
by Harrison
Animals are here for our uses. We got to the top of the food chain, not them.

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:10 pm
by leah
dude you don't make fur coats out of cow or belts out of foxes.

trust me, cows are a dime a dozen (come to rural nebraska and i will show you), unlike foxes and whatnot.

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:18 pm
by Arlos
The main issue with most fur is how the animals are trapped, etc. Many of them are made such that either the animal slowly strangles, or it's foot gets crushed and the bones shattered, while it's still left alive to slowly starve to death. Traditional trapping methods really are extraordinarily barbaric and cruel to the animals. That's the biggest reason PETA and so many other groups are so against fur coats, etc.

There are some fur farms, where animals are raised from birth to be killed for their furs and are killed in a humane fashion, just like cows and pigs and such are supposed to be for food, but there's not many of them, and the fur produced is more expensive, from what I understand.

So, they do have a point when it comes to fur, actually.

Idiocies like THIS one, however, are indefensible.

-Arlos

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:54 pm
by brinstar
Tikker wrote:
brinstar wrote:dumb idea PETA

i am highly against wearing fur as fashion though. i mean i obviously wouldn't dogsled up to the yukon and tell inuits to buy synthetic fleece instead, but millionaire fucks don't need to be buying that shit, it's retarded



I'm sure you own no leather belts or shoes then



did i say leather? no, i fuckin said fur

and while i do dislike the methods of harvesting fur, i mostly just think it's ugly and unnecessary clothing, bought and worn by assholes, for no other reason than to show off how much money they have

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:38 pm
by Drem
brinstar wrote:
Tikker wrote:
brinstar wrote:dumb idea PETA

i am highly against wearing fur as fashion though. i mean i obviously wouldn't dogsled up to the yukon and tell inuits to buy synthetic fleece instead, but millionaire fucks don't need to be buying that shit, it's retarded



I'm sure you own no leather belts or shoes then



did i say leather? no, i fuckin said fur


hahahaha

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:44 pm
by Tikker
brinstar wrote:
Tikker wrote:
brinstar wrote:dumb idea PETA

i am highly against wearing fur as fashion though. i mean i obviously wouldn't dogsled up to the yukon and tell inuits to buy synthetic fleece instead, but millionaire fucks don't need to be buying that shit, it's retarded



I'm sure you own no leather belts or shoes then



did i say leather? no, i fuckin said fur

and while i do dislike the methods of harvesting fur, i mostly just think it's ugly and unnecessary clothing, bought and worn by assholes, for no other reason than to show off how much money they have


doesn't make you any less of a hypocrite motherfucker

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:58 pm
by Arlos
Um, there's a rather huge difference between harvesting the hides of cows that are being slaughtered for food purposes anyway, and inhumane fur traps that cause immense pain, suffering and a slow death among the animals that fur is harvested from.

-Arlos

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:58 pm
by brinstar
listen up, i'll lay it out again:

fur: bullshit luxury items that rich assholes buy to show off how rich they are, tacky and obvious and ridiculous

leather: utilitarian, durable


now, do i like the methods used to harvest fur? nope. but i don't like the methods employed to make meat for my burgers either. however, i don't care enough about either to go vegetarian, or dump a bucket of blood on some piece of shit celeb wearing a mink boa. thus, the methods with which these products are obtained being on equal footing, all that remains is the difference in affected social class.

which brings me back to my refrain: fuck douchebags that wear fur :asthanos:

Re: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:13 pm
by Kramer
why not just post other nudey PETA ads? seems alot more fun and interesting