Ice Cream, Ice Cream, We all scream...
Ice Cream, Ice Cream, We all scream...
In a recent letter to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman, asked that cofounders Ben Cohen and Jerry
Greenfield consider changing their use of cows milk in their ice cream recipes for breast milk from contracted women donors.
According to Reiman, there is an innovative restaurant in Switzerland called Storchen that has recently unveiled 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. Reiman reasons that this exchange of cows milk for women’s milk could be a beneficial and a unique twist for the Ben & Jerry’s brand.
I say, enough already! I’m not so sure which is more cruel to animals, the fact that if not milked, the dairy cows are going to have some pretty painful udders versus if milked by today’s industrial milking machines, the donating women are going to suffer some pretty painful ones too.
Can you imagine how this conversation must have started off that one fateful day earlier this month in the PETA board room? I’m sure it was on the heals of the final exhale as the PETA bong made its rounds - round the table. You know all those major PETA board members have got to be big pot heads too. Why else would they have contacted Ben & Jerry’s? Come on, other than the fact that their number one flavor of ice cream is named after Jerry Garcia (Cherry Garcia) of the Grateful Dead, need I say more?
Enough is enough, let’s keep the cow’s milk in my ice cream and the other, at home where it belongs, I‘m not even that comfortable when a woman decides to breast feed her infant in public (not that’s there is anything at all wrong with that), much less pour some in my morning coffee for heaven’s sake, The only ones partaking in a woman’s breast milk should be her children and of course her oddly curious husband once in a while, and that’s it.
Besides, I’m not an advocate for larger government. After this most recent discovery of the abuses that deregulation has caused in our nation’s financial sector, think how long the lines are going to be for the hiring of new agricultural inspectors to make sure the breast milk is being procured and processed properly.
