Breast Milk Ice Cream? September 24, 2008

Well, I hate milk. I am lactose-intolerant. And I don't ever drink milk from the bottle. If I have any in food, it's always in a pie or cake when I haven't baked it like birthday cake. If I do bake it I put soy milk in.

I wonder why people eat meat if they wouldn't eat their own flesh and why people would drink milk if they wouldn't drink breastmilk? It follows the same path as eating eggs that come from human ovaries.

I think this campaign is great (:

People are most likely so turned off by this because it seems so Taboo. Anything people hear that's not the ordinary is always a huge deal, or hard to comprehend. Most people would probably think "EW HOW GROSS?! Drinking human milk?!?". But what they aren't realizing is that this is the same as drinking a cow's milk right?

:D

I agree completely. When I tell people I'm vegan, they just find it really weird that I don't drink milk or eat dairy cheese or any of that! They don't understand how unnatural and how unhealthy consuming dairy is. I was talking to one of my friends the other day and she said that she thinks dairy is a good source of nutrients, and I was like "if you're a baby cow maybe!".
Why drink the milk intended for a calf when there are healthier, more ethical options out there?

Sorry guys, but this is super-lame. I am with you guys for the most part, but this just turns people off and won't reach anyone.

Seriously, who came up with this awful idea?

well humans think they are the super species.
Ya know?
It's ridiculous though.
We really are no different from animals.

I'm more concerned about who is giving the milk and where exactly can I join the 4H Club in helping with the processing of said milk for said ice cream?

I think people are sometimes ignorant.

Milk isn't even good for humans, especailly since their drinking milk from cows that aren't treated well && basically eat their own crap

I think this campaign is a good idea

I bet if Ben && Jerry's switches them secretly no one would even know the difference

i love peta loads, but this is the stupidest idea ive heard in ages. where do you suppose you'll get the breast milk? you gonna start farming humans? soya/rice milk yes, breast milk? just no.

I'm a vegan and like most I've come to believe that at a certain age we no longer need milk, no matter the source. The suggestion that we now reintroduce human milk into our diets is, to me, completely absurd. I believe a suggestion of adding soy or coconut milks to their menu would have been much more helpful.

If PETA's intent was to bring about light to the absurdity of drinking cow's milk and not honestly suggesting we drink human milk than they should have clearly said so. As for now, all I feel they have accomplished is further fueling the mindset that vegans are crazy and we shouldn't be taken serious.

Your an idiot,
Thanks for wasting your time complaining about something only people who know nothing about animals could care about.
You do know that cows have very little memory and cannot distinct one death from another or one life from another. Also cows emit methane gas, which destroys the ozone. If you dumbass vegans and vegetarians took over the world, our planet would be screwed. We would run out of space because the natural order of things is messed up.

That's what I love about PETA, they come around within the past 100 years and think their warped ideas are going to fix the world that has been fine for millions of years.

Good job PETA,
way to be a douche.

while i think peta is doing good by trying to change the fact that the ice cream is made with cows milk from poor tortured cows, i don't believe breast milk is the answer.
I understand the point of cows milk is for calves and breast milk is for babies, but i think there are better alternatives. kudos to peta for raising attention on the issue.
i think that ice cream companies should switch to soy milk instead of cows milk. this would help the poor cows, be healthier for everyones bodies, and people woud not think oddly about what kind of "milk" they are consuming.
some people would have an issue with consuming breast milk. not alot of people would have problems with soy milk. try the soy milk campaign and i think it would be more reasonable to the companies and it would still raise awareness!

i've seen it on the news today! i was so happy, first time i ever heard about peta on tv :) ! good job guys!! personnaly i'm in love with the concept of this :P !

While I agree that dairy farming is horrible and should be stopped, this campaign only perpetuates the average citizen's belief that Peta is nuts. I've already had to try to defend myself against dairy-lovers multiple times today since this letter was released.

I think its great. I mean, they drank it as a baby growing up. actually, doesnt drinking milk from your spieces sound a little better than drinking pus stolen from a baby cow? people need to grow up and start thinking.

Seriously? Breast milk? I'm a very active animal rights supporter and vegetarian, and I can see where soy milk is a WONDERFUL idea, but not breast milk. Way too many negative associations. Plus can anything be transmitted through breast milk? When I'm eating a sundae, I don't want to look at the woman next to me and wonder if what I'm eating came from her.

We at Mother's Milk Ice Cream Company would like to applaud PETA for recognizing the irony of bovine milk ice cream as well as the glorious potential of a human milk alternative. It is the mission of MMICCo. to challenge the traditional paradigm that there is nothing abnormal about conversion of non-human mammalian milk into luxury food items.

We wish you the best of luck in actual implementation of the plan!

Sincerely,

Chip Fisher
C.F.O

Mother's Milk Ice Cream Company
http://www.bio.miami.edu/muscarella/mothersmilkicecream.html

I love this campaign idea!!:) People are brainwashed by the cruel dairy industry so that's why they think it's okay to consume the milk from cows. People need to start thinking for themselves already.It's common sense that baby cows are suppose to drink cows milk. There's no excuse for consuming cruel and unhealthy dairy.

I would never drink humans milk. That is so disgusting. The campaign is great.

I think its funny and actually makes a lot of sense. I think humans should understand that cows milk is meant for cows and human milk is meant for humans. Cows suffer too much in the dairy industry and its time they were given some helping hands.

hahahaha I saw that on the news i thought you guys were serious.....that’s the best campaign idea I’ve heard in a long time. but you need to make sure people don't think you think we should drink breast milk. it turns people off. but if they know what you mean it could really get people thinking

I think this is a great idea!

People need to understand that drinking the milk of another species is just weird!

Why are we freaked out by the though of drinking milk from OUR OWN species, but totally okay with drinking milk from a COW?
I think the campain is brilliant!

I love it, I've just been answering a question on Yahoo Answers about it, and everybody seems to be really grossed out by the thought of drinking milk that's meant for another human's baby, so hopefully it'll click with them that cows milk is meant for baby cows and not humans.

SWITCH THEM SECRETLY

This is ridiculous,
how about they use SOY milk?
I'm vegetarian but I don't drink milk and such and soy ice cream is delicious, breast milk sounds way too expensive and disgusting to me.

I really do think PETA is going overboard with this one, soy milk is a much better alternative.

Why not start a campaign to convince Ben & Jerry's to create a non-dairy ice cream?

Thank you for contacting PETA about our tongue-in-cheek letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield asking them to substitute breast milk for cow's milk in their Ben & Jerry's ice cream. We agree that using human breast milk to make ice cream is absurd. What is more absurd, however, is using a different species' breast milk for nourishment.

Our letter was designed to raise awareness about the cruelty inherent in the dairy industry, which exploits animals in order to produce foods that humans were never intended to eat. For more information about the dairy industry and to learn why humans should avoid dairy products, please visit http://www.DumpDairy.com.

PETA's purpose is to stop animal suffering, and we use all available opportunities to reach millions of people with powerful messages—and the fact that you contacted us about this is a sign that our efforts are working. We have found that people do pay more attention to our more provocative actions, and we consider the public's attention to be extremely important. Unfortunately, getting the animal rights message to the public is not always easy and straightforward. Unlike our opposition, which is mostly composed of wealthy industries and corporations, PETA must rely on getting free "advertising" through media coverage.

The dairy industry spends more than $160 million per year on efforts to hook humans on cow's milk, but people who care about maintaining good health for themselves and their children—and who oppose cruelty to animals—should never consume dairy products.

Besides humans, no species drinks milk beyond infancy or drinks the milk of another species. Cow's milk is suited to the nutritional needs of calves, who have four stomachs and gain hundreds of pounds in a matter of months. The diet that is healthiest for infant humans is a natural one that consists of their own mother's milk, just as cow's milk is also best for baby cows.

Dairy products are hazardous to human health. They 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. He said that it sets kids up for obesity and heart disease—America's number one cause of death. Cow's milk is the primary cause of food allergies among infants and children, according to the American Gastroenterological Association.

Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, farmers forcefully impregnate cows every nine months. The cows are impregnated year after year, but they are never allowed to nurture their calves. They are treated as nothing more than milk machines, and they are genetically manipulated and given hormone injections to force them to produce more than three times as much milk as their babies would naturally suckle. 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 to 17 weeks of torment chained inside crates so small that they can't even turn around.

To learn more, please visit our Web sites http://www.DumpDairy.com and http://www.GoVeg.com.

Thanks for giving PETA the chance to address your concerns. We appreciate your interest in our work!

Sincerely,

Pulin

i dont want you guys hating me,
but i really don't think this is a good idea either.
mainly because it would take a LOT of humans,
and they can't be in a factory or something with things to pump it out.
i mean, i feel bad for the cows too, but would YOU like to be in a room filled with other women pumping breast milk out? idtsss. lol.

:/ thats just my opinion.
i'm actually not sure what to do about ice cream.
i don't even eat it anymore though. so, idk.

Great idea! I think it's hilarious that people are taking this clever PR move so seriously... Hey, what if PETA had taste tests on the street between rice milk and "organic milk" and then after the people drink the "milk" you tell them it was organic *human* milk.

Lot's of people don't realize that not only do humans drink the milk of other species, they also breast feed the young of other species.
http://eco-health.blogspot.com/2008/09/got-breast-milk-interspecies-suckling.html

we were talking about this in my art class the other day, it is drastic but we do drink our mothers milk when we are young so it does make a little sense. i think it would be more sensible for ben and jerry;s to make their ice creams out of plant based milks.

Really, this was a good demonstration to bring attention to the absurdity of drinking another specie's milk when we refuse to drink our own...however you should have clearly stated that this was purely demonstrational....I'm pretty sure everyone I know think I'm even crazier and more insane than before when I say I side with Peta. Soy milk, rice milk, a-okay, but why did you have to say breast milk? I understand the idea behind it but honestly it just makes us all look crazy now. Great demonstration....if only the world knew it was a demonstration!

THIS HAD BEEN MY THOUGHT FOR A LONG TIME. WHEN WE ARE BABIES WE DRINK THE MILK SO WHY DO PEOPLE THINK IT IS SO GROSS TO DRINK IT NOW?!?!?! YOU DON'T SEE THE COWS DRINKING OUR MILK WHY SHOULD WE DRINK THEIR MILK, I THINK EVERY ANIMAL/SPECIES SHOULD CONSUME ITS OWN SPECIES' MILK.

It is a good idea..but why not have them use soy milk..People aren't that "turned off" by it..
=)

I'm sorry, I love peta but this is just ridiculous, i mean seriously guys, this is the most revolting thing i've ever heard. It's just disgusting, it's not right and you guys keep saying this is a great idea, but really...is that what you really think?! Can you possibly bring yourself to drink from your mom's boobs as an adult or a friend's?! I mean, come on that's just wrong. This is the sickest idea ever!!!

This is really weird. I can't imagine everyone drinking human breast milk. I think I'll stick to drinking soy milk.

This reminds of a book I was reading recently. These kids are locked up by their father in this giant underground building with tons of food and such. But the father "accidentaly" miscalculated the supply. So when they run out of milk, he uses his wifes breast milk and gives it to the older children. Then he tells them where the milk came from and the one boys goes as far as throwing up. I think it is so wrong that people drink cows milk but won't drink their own mothers milk. I mean, I'm not saying I would go and drink my mothers breast milk, soy is a great supplement, but I just don't understand it.

The book was called The Compound, by the way.

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