PETA Wants Ben & Jerry's to Use Breast Milk in Ice Cream

I hate to beat a dead horse but I am so sick of PETA that I could scream.

Listen, I am 100% in favor of treating animals ethically, but I believe PETA should extend that courtesy to humans as well. Unfortunately, they continue to behave in poor taste.

I have made my distaste for PETA and their advertising campaigns know here before. Now they have once again crossed the line into the detestable.

What did they do this time?

PETA asked Ben & Jerry's to use breast milk in their ice cream.

Oh, PETA, you think you are so fucking clever. Let's say you get what you want - are you going to go out and supports Ben & Jerry's and EAT the breast milk ice cream?

I doubt it.

I understand what they are trying to say. They are saying that cow's milk is bad for you and inhumane and all of that jazz but how would human milk help the situation. Ice cream made with human milk is not vegan.  In my opinion this stunt is just stupid.

I agree that breast milk is best - for babies. I also hold that advertising and publicity stunts can be powerful and tasteful at the same time.

This isn't PETA's worst idea yet. Let us not forget Shirley Manson holding the skinned fox. (I won't make you look at it, but if you want to you can see the gore here.) I am not easily offended but PETA manages to just that on a regular basis.

Here is the thing, much like how those assholes in the TRUTH commercials made me want to start smoking again, PETA makes me want to go out and apply for a hunting license. If I have to see any more naked B-list celebrities naked or any more Holocaust on Your Plate garbage I am going to make veal for dinner every night for a week. And I don't even like veal.

Maybe instead I'll just go out and buy a bunch of Ben & Jerry's and treat all the neighborhood kids to an impromptu ice cream party.

Comments

[heels]

The answer to solving the problem of unethical treatment of milk cows is... the unethical treatment of women. Yup.

Dude- I admit to tasting my own breastmilk out of sheer curiosity, but I DO NOT want to taste anyone else's.

[Karen]

I was a member of PETA. I got their newsletters, and even saved up my allowance to mail to them.

I was FOURTEEN, newly (and righteously) vegetarian, and didn't know my ass from a hole in the ground. I can only assume that the leaders of PETA never really grew up and still snicker like Beavis and Butthead when they hear the word "breast".

At a certain level I am aware that they are trying to engage the public's collective mind through shocking and getting attention. The problem with that is, if you keep doing it over and over, you start to resemble a tantruming toddler.

I always picture the ad writers for PETA as being a bunch of guys sitting around, like in a Bloom County cartoon about comic book authors, where one says, after drawing a huge-breasted superheroine, "You know, none of us dated much in high school..."

[Sourire11]

A friend of mine was an accidental member of PETA... and when she applied for her hunting license she used a PETA return address sticker.

[Gray Matter]

Here's what I like best about the poster--we should treat animals with respect, but women as pieces of meat.

[Laura]

Gray matter...thank you so much! I thought the same thing.
PETA really helps a lot. When I worked with families often times they had neglected pets as well and PETA always helped me right away when I could never get help from the local shelters and SPCA's. HOwever with that said, it is shit like this that makes people forget all that!

[chatty cricket]

UGH. This is so obviously one of their shock campaigns aimed at getting people talking about acceptable cow milk alternatives, like, maybe soy? But it's just gross. And I am a lactating mother.

Stupid PETA. It just makes me want to dismiss them off the bat.

[Jane]

I believe in treating animals humanely. However, promoting animal rights at the expense of women's rights is wrong. Period.

Besides, constantly resorting to shock campaigns just makes them seem like their arguments can't stand on substance alone.

[b]

As a once and future Lactating American, I feel I have the right to slap the crap out any and all PETA personnel. Especially with the advertisement they chose to use for human milk. As if any lactating breasts look like that teenager's. Stupid fucks.

[Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah]

Exactly!

How is all the shock value helping anything. PETA may do wonderful work - I'll probably never know because I just can't get beyond the yelling in my ear.

[Stephanie]

i heard about this & was kinda hoping something SO STUPID couldn't be real;
only to see the advertisement.
nice PETA, way to circumvent your own efforts.

the board definitely must consist of a group of 14 year old boys who are hoping to get their first glipse of a real boob.

[Cheryl]

Oh dear heaven...the "ewwwww" factor was horrific enough and then the ludicrousness intensified one-hundred fold when I saw "Cow's milk is linked to colic, ear infections and diabetes"

Guess what? So is breastmilk! Those are aspects of babydom...liquid in general positioned poorly is an ear infection exacerbator...COLIC? REALLY?!?!? They think for one MICRO-second that colic could be lessened with the elimination of cow's milk? As a mom who DID breastfeed her twins, there is not a bat in he** that I would ever re-acquaint with a pump for any Chubby Hubby (and mine had better never ask me to....)

[Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah]

I breastfed my twins too, and I can tell you right now that my body never even resembled that woman's body when I was lactating.

[Rachele]

What about the mom's that MAY do drugs? Will we have tainted Chunky Monkey?

[AmyC65]

There's a group, I believe just local to my area, that sells PETA t-shirts that say, "PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals" Kinda gross, but I did chuckle the first few times I saw it. Seems PETA people come to their quaint little village every day-after-Thanksgiving and ruin the first day of their Dickens Christmas festival by picketing and throwing red paint at the fur store in town.

[Lori]

I totally agree to what everyone is saying, but alas, this is exactly what they were going for. Free advertising. I can imagine all the marketing guys sitting around reading this saying, "Whoa...huhu, she said BOOB, huhuhu...!!"

[theclevermom]

Wow. Society has really, really not got any smarter, have they? Nearly 300 years later and the intelligentsia still don't get Swiftian irony.

[BaltimoreGal]

Like I said on HBM...
Another case of PETA being COMPLETELY misogynistic.

[Katie Kat]

Gray Matter - that was so dead on!

I was a vegetarian for 12 years, and a RABID supporter of PeTA. Then I started to get a little tired of all the horrific pictures and videos, etc. that they inundated me with (I mean bloody hell, I was on THEIR side). As their focus turned more and more radical, I found myself actually unable to support them anymore. I mean, I do believe there needs to be a radical change in how we treat animals, but when their OWN STAFFERS were found to be killing cats and dogs, I lost it.

I have not been a member for 5 or 6 years because I just don't think they have a handle on the real issue anymore. It's sad, but I think they've begun to rot from the inside out because of their hatred and vitriol. I hope they can reel it back in and become the voice of knowledge and compassion they once were.

[Karen]

theclevermom---Swift was a brilliant writer and didn't limit himself to a one-off about using poor people as a food supply. PETA has been (pardon the expression) beating a dead horse for years now. People are tired of their attitude, and their message is being lost amid their hysterics.

If PETA wants to engage the public in intelligent, lively debate about animal rights and welfare, I'd listen. Stick half-naked women on billboards, and make stupid ads about using breastmilk for ice cream, and I tend to tune out.