Seriously PETA? They send out this letter to Ben and Jerry’s:
Storchen restaurant is set to unveil 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. If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.
Apparently, PETA sends this giant letter to Ben and Jerry’s asking them to use breast milk instead of cow milk!??! I can’t believe this is real and I couldn’t find a copy of the letter on the internet, but who knows.
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This might have been useful when Ben and Jerry still owned Ben and Jerry’s.
Still would have been chillingly insane. But perhaps more useful. When I first saw blog post about this on another site, I actually checked The Onion for the “story.”
and if you’re feeling especially suggestible, you can use the pour-off from your bleeding heart as a sundae topping!
I am waiting for Cvillains to come up with the names of the potential new Ben & Jerry’s flavors.
“the dirty titty”
it has fudge and nuts sprinkled all over it.
i’m pretty much done here, i hope.
I know I will get flak for this being Charlottesville, but fuck PETA. If you take any time to look into the Organization instead of making a knee-jerk reaction that aww they love animals, you would understand.
They are run by psychos, and give animal rights activists a horrible name.
we must all remember the Milk-Bars in Clockwork Orange?
flavours:
Racky-Road
Bubble-Yum
Dugs-and-Bugs (vanilla with raisins)
Teets-and-Sweetmeats (whatever the hell sweetmeats are–Dickens’ characters are always eating them)
Global-Noble (like Fudge Royale)
Perk-n-Jerk (jamaican-rum flavoured)
Perky-n-Jerky (for the hunting-fishing crowd)
Funbag-Fig
Sacks-Momax (cutesy, for kids…prairie-dog logo and … can’t imagine what taste/texture to it…sand?)
Mamm-ary Cherry
i’m slow and not terribly inspired today.
Isn’t it sortof exploitative to pay people for their breast milk:
1) doesn’t lactating imply they’ve got a kid who should get the stuff instead?
2) isn’t it more likely the poor who are selling breast-milk, much as they are stereotypically tagged as the ones who sell their blood/plasma
also—what sort of medical screening is going on here—can’t Herpes Type A, B and AIDS be transmitted through breast-milk, as well as residual drugs-used? and aren’t pregant women given an insane number of pharmaceuticals to aid pregnancy, and antibiotics in massive broad-spectrum doses for recovery, which also would be carried in the stuff. This seems totally un-FDA.
ya’ll are LAME:
“I am waiting for Cvillains to come up with the names of the potential new Ben & Jerry’s flavors.”
we’re all too freaked out. it’s fucking gross.
@9 Yeah, I’m kind of regretting opening that door, now. Yeesh.
agreed. it’s the opposite of handjobbin. whether or not this is real, PETA is a insane. They make no distinction between small and large scale offenses, their protests are little more than publicity stunts and their rhetoric is too extreme to be taken seriously. then again, I kill puppies, so…
their protests are little more than publicity stunts
Except when they get hot naked people to sit in cages with painted on animal fur. I wish they would do more of that. That and the semi clad celebrity fur ads…
/the revolution will be teh secksay.
i saw this on aol a couple of weeks ago, except without the peta part.
from what i recall, breast milk tastes way better than cow’s milk. but, like many bodily fluids, drinking a stranger’s would be gross.
@5, 11 good thing shen is gone…
@12
MAN!!! I forgot about that—they had a delicious young thing sitting on the ground in front of the Mudhouse a while back, wearing a dog-collar and tied to a lamp-post, nude and though self-furred also painted with fur. that was a Moment In History…. I would have signed any damn petition they stuck in front of me. Maybe the obama-kids on the Mall should try this.
PETA is so extreme, it’s too bad cuz their heart’s in the right place but they just go the wrong way about getting their mesage out. This must be a joke though.
there was a miller’s PETA waitress for a while
who would give bitter and antagonistic lectures to anyone who ordered a burger.
lectures to anyone who ordered a burger
I’d recommend that anyone eating at Miller’s order their veggie burger. But that’s not for ethical reason. It’s because their veggie burger is straight-up baller declicious. So, while her motivations were off, this waitress really did know what was good for people, and we should all be thankful for that.
of course it’s delicious. the grill at miller’s is well-seasoned with all the delectable animal fat from the last few decades of serving delectable animal fat. mmm.
when I was vegetarian, I quickly discovered I could only watch videos or read articles from PETA on my “strong” days else I find myself sobbing for the fate of all mankind. they scare me like sarah palin.
ahem, sarah PARlin.
That’s not very nice. I serve people and never lecture them on what they eat, even tell them a dish is good even if it is meat and I am a vegetarian. You’re just supposed to bring the food, not tell people how to live their lives.
Ummm…ewwwwwww!
@20 sarah parlin was my secret name-switching thread name, which i never used because i am neither a girl, nor a terrifying alaskan imperialist.
you should be afraid of me though. i vote.
@23, you were the one I was referring to.
/run away!
@12 they weren’t very hot dude. The type of chicks that are into anarchical devotion to animal rights are the kind of chicks that don’t shave their legs and armpits or wear deodorant or shampoo their hair.
So only dirty hippie chicks are into animal rights? I doubt it.
@ 25 Alicia Silverstone, Dita Von Teese, Jenna Jameson (granted she looks like a monster now), Eva Mendes, Sophie Monk, Holly Madison, Kimora Lee, Jamelia, Charlotte Ross, Alyssa Milano, Imogen Baily, Famke Janssen, Sherlyn Chopra, Joss Stone, Joanna Krupa, Traci Bingham, Annaliese Braakensiek…
Yup. Fire up the google and get ready to behold the vast expanse of ugliness.
(thats sherlyn, fresh out of her cage)
/your pwnage, it feeds me.
Ahem, Pam Anderson. She definitely shaves and showers. Ethan you are wronnnnng.
Guys. GUYS! Ethan’s just riffing on his Glibertarian routine. It’s best just to leave him a tip for the performance and shuffle on by. I recommend a wittle-bitty kitty impaled on a pole (his fave!).
What’s with all the jokes about acts of violence against puppies and kittens Stanley? You are disturbing me!
@30: Ha ha ha. Just kiddin’ everyone! Man. You guys…
@27 are any of those women the type of women to paint their bodies up like tigers and sit in a cage all day to protest? There’s a difference between animal rights activism and the Animal Liberation Front. Besides it’s a little too much like being a furry. I don’t roll that way.
are any of those women the type of women to paint their bodies up like tigers
yes
there’s a whole book where veruschka collaborated with an artist who painted her to look like tree bark & stuff. it’s pretty incredible.
I stand corrected then.
Still a bit furry though.
I freakin’ hate pumping. Pumped breastmilk is liquid gold. That said, many women pump more than their children need, so it’s wonderful that they donate for NICU babies and mamas who have low supply. Milk bank milk is hella pricey, though. I’m glad my kiddo can get it out the standard way.
@7 Milk donated to milkbanks is screened (as are donors).
And I didn’t need pharmaceuticals or antibiotics for pregnancy. It’s not a disease. Sheesh.
@ 32 Oh ethan. I knew you’d end up playing the furry card. Always the furry card. Its like godwin lite.
/you win.
@37
makes more sense to donate to milk-banks than to sell it to Ben&Jerry’s.
but the FDA must require screening of that stuff, too.
how can you tell pregnancy is not a disease (other that antibiotics don’t seem to CURE it)? i mean elevated temperature and vomiting and weird cravings and mood-shifts and unsightly growths, dramatic weight-change, uncontrollable fluid excretions/secretions, increased reliance on healthcare, absenteeism from work, pariah status (like lepers), not allowed to be in bars or other places like that (is it communicable? i know you can catch it FROM bars), etc.
breast-milk carries antibodies for the wee-one’s use, i think.
@39, there are other pills that cure it.
@40
do you have to buy them from roving bans of gypsies or elves that only appear on the equinox?
seems like an awful lot of swelled-tum girls loping along the Mall these days.
Has anyone notified the CDC?
bands, bands of gypsies.
I once dated a girl who worked for PETA as director of something or other, she’d done a nude protest along with a girl known as the “veggie venus” and had once been given tickets to Japan or Hong Kong by a supporter so she could take part in a protest there. She shaved, she showered, and imho was pretty hot too. She was also a kick-boxing and range-shooting fanatic. There tactics are sometimes over the top, but its gotten discussions like this one to take place, so I think it may have worked?
@43 yeah we’re discussing, but how many carnivores here have reconsidered because of it? & is stanley not killing kittens anymore?
@43
and are we all sure that hawt-nudity is the way to turn humankind away
from a commitment to the pleasures of FLESH?
@27 True…but isn’t the real question now what’s the likelihood of any one average guy attaining a celebrity animal rights hottie whose image and body is meticulously maintained by a slew of insanely superfluous stylist people, makeup people, hair and skin people, agent people?
Just a friendly question. The majority of animal rights chicks (to be fair and to quote Ethan, the ones with anarchical devotion ) that I’ve met seem to appeal to a very small, select pool of men with particular tastes. Not saying all are granola-y trichophiliacs…
is stanley not killing kittens anymore?
Guys. Seriously? I haven’t event *started* yet.
/nor do I plan to
//hi, peta; don’t throw paint at me; is vegetarian for like muchos, muchos years
Otter, your comments @7 and 39 are really offensive to pregnant women.
OMFG… are you PREGNANT Caroline?
you should know
AHA…..I sneakily put a Trojan on my turkey baster which means YOU madam have been playing around on me.
Ruh-Roh
@46 well if you like furry armpits I’m sure the metaphor applies. @43. A little turned on..not going to lie.
ew, i know i for one am not going to ever go to B&J’s ever again if this is true. On the other hand, have not checked it on the so-not-true networks… (am totally blanking on the name), but in any case, NOT samplin’ folks…
@48
my sincere apologies to pregnant women anywhere. some of my best friends are, literally, pregnant women. or have been pregnant women, at one time or another. meant no offense, only good-natured japing, aping the chronicaly dumb lonely hermit single-guy naive to ways of world and biology and women generally and so on.
i was hoping it could substitute for wit. FAIL. it WAS funny though.
That said, i’m still pissed that in an entire day not one of you
could come up with some irreverent and funny names for flavors of funbag-icecream.
um, ok, gauntlet thrown down… but. no, I can’t come up with anything. thought of several things, but none of them worth commenting. I fail. sorry.
perhaps tomorrow, then. but remember that no joke based on lactating may in any way aver to pregnancy nor pregnant persons, per above censure. keep your wit on the tit; only this and nothing more.
/pushes play on BOOTY CALL dvd.
just for clarification, the word “titillating” is out, right?
/one sweet titillating whirled
way to rock the late night commenting - ddg!
too much to do otherwise (sorry, cvillain, i have other loves- but we can still be friends) i’m sure we’ll have our times to spend with a bottle of wine and reconnect- all my friends and i find it. but
wtf?! concur with @1. and i love ice cream, and i do not want it made any other way.
and you have to be kidding me.
Nipplelitan is the best. Peanut Butter B Cup is also good.
you didn’t like Racky Road?
I preferred the Chestachio.
Mammaraschino Cherry
Chocolate Nip Cookie Dough
Shhh…Top Secrete!
How did I not come up with chocolate NIP cookie dough? I am a failure. I don’t deserve to have breasts.
@65
yes-yes-yes!!!!!!!!!
gonna take the afternoon off and go ask the nice teenagers at B&J if they have any teat-treats.
y’all are really making me want ice cream now; i don’t care what kind of milk is in it.
Nipples’n'Cream… Melon-berry Mammary… Idk. I came up with chocolate nip just as i saw someone else had posted it. damn!