GoPokes83
09-25-2008, 09:32 AM
WTF??? Honestly. W. T. F. !!!!! These people should be stopped. I don't even want to think about their suggestions to Oscar Meyer's!
I'll go throw up now.
PETA wants Ben & Jerry's ice cream to use breast milk
Posted to: News Norfolk
By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 24, 2008
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has suggested that a famous ice cream company replace cow’s milk with human breast milk in its products.
In a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream, PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman writes that the suggestion is based on an idea from a restaurant in Switzerland.
Storchen, Reiman wrote, is set to unveil a menu that includes food made with at least 75 percent breast milk. The humans who donate the milk are paid, according to the letter.
“If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers – and cows – would reap the benefits,” Reiman wrote.
In the letter, Reiman also said that cow's milk is a hazard to the health of the ice cream company’s customers because of the link between the dairy product and maladies including juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, anemia, certain types of cancer and other problems in children.
Cows only produce milk before and after pregnancy, the letter says. They are forcefully impregnated every nine months in order to be constantly milked, Reiman wrote.
“The breast is best!” Reiman wrote. “Won’t you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow’s milk to breast milk in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream?”
The animal rights group is based in Norfolk.
Edit* Here's the PETA press release.
For Immediate Release:
September 23, 2008
Contact:
Ashley Byrne 757-622-7382
Burlington, Vt. - This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cow's milk in their products with human 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 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves. PETA points out to Cohen and Greenfield that such a move on their part would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health at the same time.
"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."
For more information, please visit PETA's Web site Blog.PETA.org or click here.
PETA's letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield follows.
September 23, 2008
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Cofounders
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.
Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,
On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I'd like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry's. Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers--and cows--would reap the benefits.
Using cow's milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer's health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease--America's number one cause of death.
Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.
And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can't produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can't even turn around.
The breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President
I'll go throw up now.
PETA wants Ben & Jerry's ice cream to use breast milk
Posted to: News Norfolk
By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 24, 2008
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has suggested that a famous ice cream company replace cow’s milk with human breast milk in its products.
In a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream, PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman writes that the suggestion is based on an idea from a restaurant in Switzerland.
Storchen, Reiman wrote, is set to unveil a menu that includes food made with at least 75 percent breast milk. The humans who donate the milk are paid, according to the letter.
“If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers – and cows – would reap the benefits,” Reiman wrote.
In the letter, Reiman also said that cow's milk is a hazard to the health of the ice cream company’s customers because of the link between the dairy product and maladies including juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, anemia, certain types of cancer and other problems in children.
Cows only produce milk before and after pregnancy, the letter says. They are forcefully impregnated every nine months in order to be constantly milked, Reiman wrote.
“The breast is best!” Reiman wrote. “Won’t you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow’s milk to breast milk in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream?”
The animal rights group is based in Norfolk.
Edit* Here's the PETA press release.
For Immediate Release:
September 23, 2008
Contact:
Ashley Byrne 757-622-7382
Burlington, Vt. - This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cow's milk in their products with human 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 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves. PETA points out to Cohen and Greenfield that such a move on their part would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health at the same time.
"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."
For more information, please visit PETA's Web site Blog.PETA.org or click here.
PETA's letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield follows.
September 23, 2008
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Cofounders
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.
Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,
On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I'd like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry's. Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers--and cows--would reap the benefits.
Using cow's milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer's health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease--America's number one cause of death.
Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.
And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can't produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can't even turn around.
The breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President