Breast-milk ice cream?

I pass along without comment the following, from the AP:

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Ice cream made from breast milk? That’s what the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream to consider making.

The Virginia-based nonprofit group sent a letter to company co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday asking them to use human breast milk instead of cow’s milk in their products.

PETA said the health of consumers and cows would benefit from the switch.

Ben & Jerry’s spokesman Rob Michalak said the company applauds PETA’s creative approach to bring attention to an issue, but believes that a mother’s milk is best used by a child.

Steve Barnes

10 Responses

  1. MandyB says:

    My breastmilk tastes delicious, but PETA are a bunch of radical wackos that I find difficult to take seriously. None of them have obviously breastfed b/c when you wean suddenly (which is what they want these cows to do) the mother is in immense pain! Hello, ever been engorged? Not fun. Anyway, they are so extremist they miss out on an opportunity to actually do good. Why not ask Ben and Jerry’s (and maybe B & J already do this) to use milk from family farmers who treat their cows well? Like Gumaer Farms and Homestead Farms do around here.

    Furthermore, there are HUMAN mothers out there who want to breastfeed their babies and are unable to for whatever reason. I think that enormous supply of breastmilk PETA assumes is just lying around going to waste would be better used at a milk bank for those families in need.

    PETA need to get real.

  2. Herbert says:

    I would buy a pint.

  3. jaime says:

    I wonder if they have a written recipe of if they’re doin it just by mammary.

  4. Safety Lady says:

    AMEN MANDY B! I am one of thos women. #4 is on the way and my body’s just never supplied the goods. I go through the motions for a couple of weeks, but I miss the actual benefit my body should be supplying my children. Not to mention it’s stressful. Let me guess – PETA wants to put women on growth hormones so we can supply the vast amount of milk needed for the ice cream? I get their point, but COME ON!

  5. wineguy57 says:

    Two of my favorite things….. breasts and ice cream!

  6. Gerry Erchak says:

    Totally disgusting. Hey, I belong to PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

  7. dc says:

    I don’t think you buy it by the pint, it’s probably by cup size.

  8. Em says:

    Oh Peta. So out of touch. Ugh.

  9. biodiva says:

    I am a breastfeeding mama and the thought has crossed my mind to make some homemade ice cream. No way I could produce enough to make a pint (or a cup – haha). I guess PETA isn’t aware that cows are larger than people and produce much more milk than a human does. Nor are they aware that Ben and Jerry’s uses milk without recombitant growth bovine hormone. It seems to go without saying on this blog, but PETA’s ideas about what is good for animals and the environment is misguided.