Will Ice Cream Made From Breast Milk Be Served in Two Scoops?
"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."
That's from the official website of PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It's apparently in the wake of news reports that a restaurant owner in Switzerland plans to buy breast milk to use in soups, stews and sauces.
Their site claims it's cruel to keep cattle locked up, forcibly impregnating cows every nine months just to keep up milk production.
Would their solution mean milk-supplying women would have to be impregnated every nine months?
Apparently not. It appears that woman will continue producing breast milk as long as they're nursing, as the Veronika Robinson case points out (she breastfed her daughters until they voluntarily stopped at age 7, one of them almost 8 years old who asked for it again on her 9th birthday.) PETA claims breast milk is not only better for the animals, but for people.
If this becomes a trend, it leaves us with a very large question: what about yogurt, or milk itself? A cow can produce many times the milk that a human woman can. Where would all that milk come from?
Read the PETA letter and comments at http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=11993
See a short video about Veronika Robinson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHRyRCHuQ7g and Robinson's corrections to some of the video at http://www.themothermagazine.co.uk/extraordinarybreastfeeding.html (thanks to Einley for pointing these out at http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=844263 )
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