Post by Firebreath Fishslap on Oct 10, 2008 6:21:08 GMT -5
Directly from PETA's website:
Ben and Jerry's just had a WTF moment and sent this reply.
And PETA said in return:
What the diddly fuck.
Add this to the whole thing with the "Your Mommy/Daddy Kills Animals" pamplets, the claim that milk causes autism, the claim that meat makes you stupid, and their campaign to outlaw fishing, PETA's officially gone off the deep end.
Storchen, a (very innovative) restaurant in Switzerland, has just announced that they will be unveiling a new menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent human breast milk. Some folks might think that drinking human breast milk is strange … but really, what's even stranger is that humans are the only species on the planet that drinks the milk of another species.
Storchen's new menu got us thinking … which product would be fabulously awesome if it were made with breast milk instead of cow's milk? (Light bulb!) Ben and Jerry's!
So we wrote a letter to the good people at Ben and Jerry's, asking them to switch from cow's milk to breast milk. We explained that using cow's milk for their ice cream is a hazard to consumers' health. Even Dr. Spock spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in the onset of anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and, in the long term, can set kids up for a lifetime of obesity and heart disease (America's number one cause of death).
But it's not all about us humans. Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Because, like all mammals, cows only give milk during or after pregnancy, in order for humans to constantly milk them, they are forcefully impregnated every nine months. Many live in filthy conditions and are forced to give 10 times more milk than they would naturally. It's truly an awful life.
So think about it, Ben and Jerry's. We here at PETA would be super-stoked if your ice cream went vegan … we'd buy it by the truckload!
Storchen's new menu got us thinking … which product would be fabulously awesome if it were made with breast milk instead of cow's milk? (Light bulb!) Ben and Jerry's!
So we wrote a letter to the good people at Ben and Jerry's, asking them to switch from cow's milk to breast milk. We explained that using cow's milk for their ice cream is a hazard to consumers' health. Even Dr. Spock spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in the onset of anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and, in the long term, can set kids up for a lifetime of obesity and heart disease (America's number one cause of death).
But it's not all about us humans. Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Because, like all mammals, cows only give milk during or after pregnancy, in order for humans to constantly milk them, they are forcefully impregnated every nine months. Many live in filthy conditions and are forced to give 10 times more milk than they would naturally. It's truly an awful life.
So think about it, Ben and Jerry's. We here at PETA would be super-stoked if your ice cream went vegan … we'd buy it by the truckload!
Ben and Jerry's just had a WTF moment and sent this reply.
"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."
And PETA said in return:
Hey, guys, that's our point: Cow's milk is for baby cows.
What the diddly fuck.
Add this to the whole thing with the "Your Mommy/Daddy Kills Animals" pamplets, the claim that milk causes autism, the claim that meat makes you stupid, and their campaign to outlaw fishing, PETA's officially gone off the deep end.
