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Should Ben & Jerry's Use Breast Milk?
Posted by TheBigRuski • 9/24/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: animal rights, food, ice cream, milk, peta
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.
source: www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail.html
So?
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It sounds like something they would do. I would suggest trying it in one test product and see how well it sells. I could see Ben & Jerry's "boob-berry" Ice cream doing very well.-
damn I was going to make the boob berry comment too... -
I was gonna go with Toffee Titties but I thought it would get removed
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nutty nipples maybe?
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Step aside all Chubby Hubbies!
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The CDC would have a hay day with all the outbreaks of disease that could result from that...humans are so much dirtier than cows! The CDC would never allow for this. 4oz of breast milk costs around $50 to buy...the ice cream would be unaffordable if this were even being taken seriously.
Drink almond milk, soy milk, or rice milk...they have versions of ice cream that are pretty good too...better for your body and the environment and our animal friends.-
"humans are so much dirtier than cows!"
Finally, some justification for my cow fetish. Did you hear that, the Doc thinks I'm normal? -
I's gots some news for you. That wasn't a cow.
Heh, Good point though. I made the point of the expensive issue and limitations in another post but never thought about the regulation and filtering it would also take to make a proper batch of milk. Plus you'd be mixing various human fluids together? Yeah thats a smart idea.
Think about the various diets women have, Plus history of abuse from chemicals in their foods, drinks and drugs. -
Yeah and would it be organic? You would have to get some women that only eat a certified organic diet. I wouldn't want to eat fast food breast milk ice cream...that would defeat the purpose.
Pro's: Immune enhancing molecules and omega 3 fats are richly found in breast milk
Con's: Hepatitis, HIV, and other communicable disease with serious long term ramifications are also found in breast milk and communicated to others...HIV would be less likely because it is destroyed by UV light, but hepatitis B can stay active in a drop of dried blood for as long as six months researchers have found. Ick...I would never drink a strangers breast milk.
@ekim: happy to help enable you whenever I can...he he
P.S this is the most ridiculous topic in the world and PETA is just doing this for publicity. It would NEVER and I mean...NEVER EVER EVER actually hit the shelves...If I were anymore bored out of my mind and procrastinating doing stuff I should be doing...I would write up more reasons why this is just a beyond ridiculous ploy for attention on PETA's part...
Trust me I love animals too, but this is just about the stupidest thing I have ever heard of as far as usability, feasability, safety concerns, etc. Let's just not eat any milk from any mammal unless the only words we know are "ga ga". -
The thing is that the people running PETA know how to run a good cult well. They've been involved in some shady stuff and stupid tatics to get their points across.
Funniest thing is that they try to act like they have the power to march into a private buisness and tell them what to do.
The ironic thing is that PETA members would be the first ones to get eaten/killed if nature was as wild as some of them wanted it to be. The craziest one I heard from them is that they wanted all dogs being kept as pets to be let free. Imagine the fun as a wild rotty rips into their hemp pants.
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lol
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I will return later.
I am dying to see if most of the comments about breast milk will come from the Guys.
We all know how Guys have a fascination with Boobs.-
I am more of an ass and leg man myself
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Yes but you're here and this is your 3rd comment.
Nice try sucker....lmao -
I can't help but think what a poor choice of words "Sucker" is at the moment.
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Muuuuaaaahahhhhhh
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Eh, I like my boobs like I like my coffee........... Venti, From South America, Some sugar and no milk
Oink?
Na, It's not about the boobs. I just feel like ranting today. Plus I hate PETA. They use a mighty weapon against men, Cute girls. -
@MPDZombie...Yeah what is the deal with PETA anyhow
using sexy women to pull worldwide attention?
Peta is prostituting our girls. Pimp Peta. -
I didn't say I didn't appreciate a nice set of boobs, just that I preferred a great pair of legs that go all the way up and make an ass of themselves.
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@bradhart...Fair nough
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I'm with bradhart - legs is my thing.
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I refuse to eat anything but bitch bag milk ice cream, it's tittylicious!-
Will you drink breast milk from a cambodian immigrant?
(Dave Chappelle Skit) "Breast milk you made my daaaaayyyyy" -
Hell yeah I'd even drink it from an American, I'm not fussy.
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umm gross...I can't believe that the Ben and Jerry breast milk saga was all over the news today. -
Does anyone else foresee PETA and a womens rights group in a steel caged death match over ice cream or is it just me?
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Are you trying to turn me on??
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Ice Cream?...no mud?...hmmmmm
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
I can teach you but I have to charge.
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I'd have to bet against PETA, they probably are vegetarians and the weaker of the two
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Yeah those fems are as deadly as a group of Mike Tyson clones wearing uni-sex pant suits, pearl necklaces, a bloaty feeling and cramps.
Tssssssssstttttt...... Just let that image set into your mind. -
Haha, you said pearl necklaces.
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Have we met?
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I thought this topic would be like throwing chum into a shark fest!
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@TheBigRuski....nice work...
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Sir, As a member of the PETA spam newsletter I don't agree of your use of chum. You would be better off using a tofu alternative for this sharkfest.
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Yes, I know...sharks are horrendously mistreated!
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This is how even the most sane PETA member sounds like to me when they talk about animals.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaHyzbqTA-
OMG, now I've seen everything.
Well, I'm gonna go have a steak cooked over some hickory. -
Thats the attitude soilder! Remember, If the cow was in your shoes they'd do the same to you.
Heh, Cows wearing shoes. How sillys they be.
Edit: Everytime you eat a steak a tree falls over. Just think, Maybe one of those steaks you eat will be in the path of a group of crying hippies. -
Would cow shoes be made out of humans?
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Another ridiculous stunt from PETA, though admittedly less offensive than asking Timothy McVeigh to eat a vegetarian last meal, or asking the Hamas not to hurt animals when it blows up buses....
Though not much for conspiracy theories, I strongly suspect that PETA gets funding from the beef, fur, and cosmetics industries to make people who care about animal welfare look like whackos... -
Yeah we had them whacko's up here in Boston
talkin bout "save the chickens", (their motto).
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what a completely ridiculous idea, are they not aware that breast milk is a bodily fluid??-
As opposed to cows milk?
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Oh, ekim, didn't anyone tell you? Cow's milk is not a bodily fluid at all.
It's simply called cow's milk because it is extracted from the cow, but the cow doesn't produce it. It only acts as an interdimensional teleportation device that brings the non-bodily-fluid milk from the magical, magical land of Milkatia. -
I always wondered who the first guy was to drink milk.
Squeeze that thing between a cows legs and drink what comes out.
Sounds like he lost a bet. -
bodily as in human ekim, as in passing nasty stuff to others as the doc stated earlier...
Hepatitis, HIV, and other communicable disease with serious long term ramifications are also found in breast milk and communicated to others...HIV would be less likely because it is destroyed by UV light, but hepatitis B can stay active in a drop of dried blood for as long as six months researchers have found. Ick...I would never drink a strangers breast milk.
Last time I checked you couldn't get that from a cow, well unless they were a ho, then maybe lol -
So, if my dog pees on your carpet, you're cool with that?
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Ummm I thought that was you pissing on my carpet and to think I have been punishing fido by confining him in the cage when it was you all along....now whose been crapping on the rug
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I can't help it. I was excited to see you.
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That video inspired me to let my dog off his leash.
He ran out in front of a car and died but at least he died liberated. -
Viva la roadkill revolution!
Don't you find the last part funny as hell though? I bet you if their staff got bitten by an infected spider monkey and had to feast on a monkey brain every day Indian Jones style to get the cure they'd hide behind the non-profit doors spoons ready in one hand, hammers in the other. -
It makes me want to show that video to a few of those protesters.
You know they are only there 'coz they think it's cool. They don't know the truth behind PETA.
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I wish that people would worry more about getting breast milk to human infants instead of infant formula and less about turning it into ice cream.
Maybe we should make ice cream out of formula and when people taste it and ssee how artificial it is, they would then support breast feeding.-
As Drjay said, It's just a scheme to get more attention hence get more funding. PETA never really takes any action to do anything. Even though they have more than enough funds to start their own projects they seem to waste more money buying naked models, salleries and propaganda.
The honest truth is PETA priority isn't children. It doesn't attract their target audience and it would get in the way of their goal if they helped out children without a PETA agenda behind it. -
Besides, those kids are gonna grow up and want a puppy, leather shoes and a cheeseburger. Does that sound like something PETA would support?
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Good point, nonanita!
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Alot of protestors actually go to protests without all the facts. It's a common thing. Thats the problem with the 20 somethings when they get active in protesting or supporting something.
Take marijuana for example, Thats the worst of the worst when it comes to not knowing the facts or even what laws they exactly want to be put into place. All you hear is make it legal but never more than that. There are logical supporters of it that just want it to have the same standards and control as alcohol or tobacco which are both just as dangerous. Sadly for every one person who speaks with logic you have 20 hippies behind him yelling fight the power.
That's what happens with PETA too. You have people who want to make better standards for Animal Treatment and alternatives that could actually work. Then you have people who dive right into the wall headfirst and tell you that KFC is just like the days of slaves.-
I agree with that. What starts out as a very good cause quickly becomes out of control. Like Einstein said, "Intelligence has it's limits, stupidity has no boundaries".
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very well said, MPD Zombie - very well said.
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No, humans should all just commit mass suicide so it will make these activists happy. Any volunteers to start the Kool-Aid line?? -
What if we quaranteened ourselves into half the world and the animals could have the other half?
Suicide just seems so dumb. -
I agree, Suicide just seems like it wouldn't do the job. I think we need to start hunting humans.
OH! Maybe we could even start real life gameshow versions of Battle Royale. 15 men and woman on an island. Only one can survive. -
Maybe we could get lions onto a football field with defenseless humans...
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Like the good ol' roman days?
I think PETA would be against that though. One of those poor lions will swallow a breast implant one of those times and have a tummy ache. -
Believe me, I have been campaigning for them to issue licenses for me to hunt those annoying eco-tourists that come up here to Yellowstone, but do they listen to me??
Ugh.
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Oh, please. I'm all for BF, have done it with each child, but I stop at sharing with Ben and Jerry.-
Goood one!
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Exactly let Ben & Jerry's grow their own B cups.
Check out Bob's....those must be B cups at least.
Now please excruze me, while I go barf.
www.gynecomastia.org/content/treatment/gynogallery.shtml -
I just wonder - why B+J's? Why not Breyers? Why not Good Humor?
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Because Ben and Jerry's has kinda been an open minded company.
You gotta be to even think of even releasing Gravy Flavored Ice Cream
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When I saw the title of this I laughed out loud. Then I thought about the women who might get "milked" every day, and how they would described their occupation on an income tax return, and I laughed again...
Interviewer: And what do you do for a living, M'am?
Mrs. L'Seedecow: I am a Bovine Replacement Expressor, also known as a Lactation Engineer. Some folks call me a Milk Maid. I don't like that.
Interviewer: So, um, how much milk do you express every day?
Mrs. L'Seedecow: I don't think that's any of your beeswax, buddy.
But seriously, this is just gross. I wouldn't consume human breast milk in any form unless I was starving to death. YUCKO. [Can you tell I was a totally bottle-fed baby?!!] -
And imagine if it becomes a norm. One day your wife is making some home made ice cream for the kids..... And the kids are in their 20s.
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Oh geez, hello, um, soy, that is disgusting. People are dirty. -
Whoa...that's crazy! Why not just use soy milk? I really don't think I want to eat something containing someone's bodily fluids... -
That sounds really disgusting.
Why must PETA always be so disgusting?-
Uh-oh. Seems that Ian hasn't read the PETA Rule List Thingy.
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HAHA!!!
That's fantastic - thanks for that
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Only if they intend to call the new ice cream "Baby Food." -
Yuuuuucccckkkkk
What a joke...
...and I'm a cat.-
meow! mee too
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Peta and the Industries that abuse animals are all a pain in the backside.
The whole title of this posting is making me sick
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Just when you think the moonbats couldn't be wackier they go and top themselves. -
Ben & Jerry's Mocha Mammary Delight.
Now why am I suddenly thinking of Halle Barry -
Seriously? PETA just doesn't have any sense at all. MILK COMES FROM COWS. (well, I prefer milk from cows, you can help yourself to all the breast milk you want...)
Ridiculous. -
www.howtonotsuck.com/viewarticle.php?id=54
I say they tell PETA to rot, then make an experimental Ben & Jerry's Tit-Cream for the sake of marketing. -
O&A did a skit on their radio show about this just now. They made Ice Cream using breast milk and the results came down to this.
"It tastes good..... GAH, Oh no! It has an after taste"
"It tastes like bad melon"
"You know how you're at the beach and water gets in your mouth"
So yeah..... I hate things with strong after tastes so count me out on this one. -
I've never tasted booby milk, at least not since I was an adorable lil' baby. But the thought of tasting it makes me kinda squeamish. Maybe I'd be more inclined to try it if I knew whose boob it was coming from. I guess I'm kinda discriminative that way.
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One thing that i'm wondering about too is will there be different types of Breast Milk Flavors like there are Coffee?
Mmmmmm, This Irish-Brazilian Breast Milk is to die for.
Or.....
This Tennessee blend has a hint of Whisky and Newport Lights to it-
*Gag* LOL
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How true. Those flavors sound exotic and quite tasty, btw.
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How did DocNicole know breast milk costs $50 for 4 oz? Is there some breast milk auction site out there? lol : )-
AND IF SO WHERE IS THE ADDRESS! GIGGITY GIGGITY!
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Breast milk contains all chemicals that the person has. Any pills they take or medicine. Cows don't take pills for depression. Though in this day and age I am sure someone will make a pill for that also for the cows. They got pills for shyness now. Insane.-
Pills for shyness? I thought that's what Grey Goose was for.
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Funny, I just posted about this.
feel-like-complaining.blogspot.com/2008/09/mmmmmmyummy-breast-milk-ice-crea... -
i can not believe that this is a subject that fetches more than three responses, which should be close to the following:
response 1: what are you talking about?
response 2: it's just a question.
response 3: oh.
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