New York – 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.
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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.”
In a statement Ben and 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.”
PETA happens to be right on most issues especially this one.
This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard!!! PETA people should start finding better things to do with their time!!!!
Holy Cow!!!
why should any one listen to a wacko group like Peta. whats next artificial meat plants and banning the kill of an animal in the usa
*I DON’T FEEL THIS IS APPROPIATE TO PUT UP IN A YIDISHA BLOC!!!!!!!*
Maybe they should be drinking donkey’s milk to match their own persona. Chamorim!
Is PETA serious?? first of all that is just disgusting second of all I highly doubt Ben & jerrys can get enough female Humans to produce the amount of milk needed for mass production for ice cream.
They are seriously out of their looney bins.
This sure is some good humor.
I can’t believe this a real event – I always knew PETA people were crazy – this just proves it!
What do takeh the baby cows drink? Are they dying from hunger or there is enough for them and humans.
anon 12:41
you are a sick person
when you are finished worrying about all humans you can move on to animals
you and peta are a bunch of misguided idiots
anon 12:41
you are a sick person
when you are finished worrying about all humans you can move on to animals
you and peta are a bunch of misguided idiots
So glad you posted this, it gave me the best laugh of the day
“Anei ksil ke’aclooso” says Dovid hamelech, answer the fool according to his folly. Ben & Jerry correctly answered that a mother’s milk is best used for her child. They are obviously more concerned for cows then humans, like all the “tzar baalei chaim” organizations who were the first to support genocide against the Jews. Nowadays too all these liberal wacky organizations SUPPORT the Arabs in killing Jews. Not one word against it has been heard from them, but they are the first when it comes to this milk nonsense.
I’m just wondering, where dose PETA draw the line? What’s there stand in killing bugs or killing LIVE germs like bacteria. Maybe ban all those mice traps and bug killing sprays .maybe no more using any form of soap that can hurt some LIVE germ. Also one more suggestion, we should prosecute any mosquito that drinks HUMAN blood!!
SICK is far from the appropiate word for these insane (so called) human beings.
They would be best served by being totally ignored….
I must admit though that i laughed outloud when i read this. The problem is that those sickos dont mean it seriously either, they’re just a bunch of attention starving sick liberals.
Enough said.
I applaud vosizneias for posting this, as it puts things in perspective when judging Peta’s constant harassment against the kosher meat industry and in particular, Agri. It’s good to see them for the true lunatics that they are!
It is also interesting to note who they have targeted for their message: an ice cream factory rather than the standard milk company for using cow’s milk when technically it shouldn’t make a difference if the calves are suffering!:)
are they pro-life when it comes to people?
I’ll tel you where they draw the line. Anything that affects them is permitted, therefore they will kill mice, mosqittos, cockroaches, etc., but anything affecting you is wrong. Once it was said that in a democracy your rights end where someone else’s nose starts; they would like to change it that your rights end where his nose starts.
I think PETA should start drafting woman, to supply the milk for this ultimate worthy endeavour.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
PETA has just submitted a request to McDonalds, in it they request of the managment to consider a great new idea which is actually being used in Germany (you know – the liberal utopia)…
…Please refrain from using cow beef, and use human flesh instead!
(come to think of it, when was the last time you heard a member of PETA condemming abortion???)
Unless they are really clueless, they did this purely to get publicity — and it seems to have worked.
anyone who understands anything about milking cows will be aware that it is extremely crual and painful for the animal if is not milked !!!
Disgusting. I hate PETA
*I DON’T FEEL THIS IS APPROPIATE TO PUT UP IN A YIDISHA BLOC!!!!!!!*
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It happens to be a bloG, So it does indeed belong here.
Why davka Ben & Jerry’s? Why not Breyer’s, Sealtest, Carvel, Nestle etc. ?
Because these PETA morons are anti-semites that’s why.
PETA certainly can’t provide the mother’s milk because their women either don’t lactate(because they don’t have babies) or for the same reason stingy people don’t give tzedoko, Veil a treifine bheima lozt zich nisht melken a treife animal does not let itself get milked
While I happen to be very pro breastfeeding and I have myself nursed my children for a long time, I find this totally bizarre. PETA is worried about the suffering of dairy cows. That is what dairy cows are for. Mother’s are not cows. I can’t even fathom mother’s turning themselves into human cows – to pump massive amounts of milk for commercial use. Oh, but I forgot – PETA doesn’t give a hoot about humans. I say let them eat tofutti.
Re: “Ben & Jerry correctly answered that a mother’s milk is best used for her child.”
Yes, and a cow’s milk is meant for her calf. It is ironic that we are repulsed by thinking of drinking human milk but we have been conditioned to not be repulsed when drinking another species’ milk. Think about it. Drinking cow’s milk is very disturbing.
By the way, the only way they keep cows continually producing milk is to keep impregnating them and then removing the babies(the male calves are killed for veal). Cows don’t just naturally keep producing milk. They are mammals like humans and only produce milk for their young. They are not milk machines.
Who is going to give the hechsher on the mother’s milk? Hechsher Tzedek?
stupid non sense
the more times a day a cow is milked the healthier and less stress it is.
if a PETA member is driving down a narrow road with a rabbit approaching in front and a group of humans on the left …they would rather plow into the humans then kill a rabbit.
Isn’t it a tzaar for the cows if they’re not milked
Why would anyone care what peta thinks? They are not normal, they trivialize the Holocaust and other examples of human suffering.
They should be ignored.
Maybe they will start protesting that tefillin may no longer be made with cow-leather, but it should be of plastic instead! Who cares what these meshugayim say about anything?
Anonymous 12:45 wrote:
Is PETA serious?? first of all that is just disgusting second of all I highly doubt Ben & jerrys can get enough female Humans to produce the amount of milk needed for mass production for ice cream.
They are seriously out of their looney bins.
This sure is some good humor.
GOOD HUMOR IS A DIFFERENT BRAND, THIS IS ABOUT BEN & JERRY’S.
Pets Killed By PETA 2007
Year 2007
Received 1,997
Adopted 17
Killed 1,815
Transferred 35
% Killed 90.9
% Adopted 0.84
Virginia Dept of Agriculture 5/24/2008
From July 1998 through December 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed over 19,200 dogs, cats, and other “companion animals.” That’s more than five defenseless creatures every day. PETA has a walk-in freezer to store the dead bodies, and contracts with a Virginia Beach company to cremate them.
On its 2002 federal income-tax return, PETA claimed a $9,370 write-off for a giant walk-in freezer, the kind most people use as a meat locker or for ice-cream storage. But animal-rights activists don’t eat meat or dairy foods. And during a 2007 criminal trial, a PETA manager (testifying under oath) confirmed the obvious — that the group uses the appliance to store the bodies of its victims.
In 2000, when the Associated Press first noted PETA’s Kervorkian-esque tendencies, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk complained that actually taking care of animals costs more than killing them.
Hypothetical questions worth having answered (though if PETA has their way it will not be hypothetical for long): Would such milk be kosher? Is it muttar to drink?? will cholov yisroel supervision be requried?
I thought this was a Purim spoof in Elul!
okay, this is not so appropriate, but you realize that the ice cream would be parve? gross.
what about the suffering of the baby
i guess cows are in a higher class then humans
NEXT THEY WILL KILL PEOPLE FOR THE MEAT
hey! is PETA the ones responsible 4 the shortage in honey. They probably ordered the bees not to produce honey!
This is almost as funny a story as the one about the guy with the fake parking pass. Keep me laughing durring the day in this great market. thanks VIN
At least the ice cream would be pareve.
So I should give my milk 4 ice cream and give formula 4 my baby? it doesnt make sense to me! or …. Maybe I should give my baby some ice cream which will be enriched breast milk!
Do cows a favor!!
What a joke!
You can pinpoint their absurd mindset with those few words!
McDonalds has responded positively to Peta’s request that yes, they will start using human flesh, especially those of humans that the cost of upkeep is more than killing them. They only requested to first use the dog meat in Peta’s refrigerators, as it’s baal tashchis to throw out precious money.
If PITA would feed the baby cows ICE CREAM, we’d have no problems.
At least according to halacha the ice cream will now be parve. One of the only reasons I eat cholov stam is because of Ben and Jerrys- it is the best ice cream in the world, and its too hard to give up.
Breast milk cheesecake has been an idea of mine for years. Then we could have cholent on shavuos. Who’s with me.
In a statement Ben and 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.”
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How dare you Ben and Jerry, how could you be so insensitive to baby cow’s? Don’t you know that baby cow’s/animals come before human babies?
Ha, Ha, Ha,
If this story is true, it is very good that it was published. now people will not take them seriously anymore
Now Im mad!!! Im gonna go get me some Red Steak to start grilling!!