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Submitted by Family Dad Of Five on Fri, 26/09/2008 - 17:01.

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If your a breast feeding mum then you may want to watch your back, or at least, your milk supply. PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants ice cream manufacturers to replace milk meant for calves with - you guessed it, breast milk.

The request comes on the back of an "innovative" move by a Swiss restaurant owner who will "begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," according to a PETA statement."

PETA is urging ice cream giants Ben & Jerry's to do cows a "big favour" and switch to human breast milk in their products.

In a statement, Ben and Jerry's said: "We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child."

Source: Breast Is Best For PETA

Wow! I hadn't heard about this one.

Submitted by P.J. Molinario (not verified) on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 22:35.

I'm a mom of two and an advocate for breastfeeding. The benefits far outway the inconveniences but this is taking it too far! Asking busy moms to pump out extra breast milk so people can eat it in their ice cream...wow, just wow!

breastfeeding mothers @ peta

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 06:20.

This is the first I've heard of this, don't they have any better ideas and causes, like help feeding starving children. Check out my site: How To Get Pregnant

Huh?

Submitted by Joey (not verified) on Sun, 28/09/2008 - 18:26.

I used to breastfeed my son and I totally think that breastfeeding is way better than formula, but I do not think we can convince breastfeeding mothers to pump out more just so we can have more ice cream. I don't think it will be widely acceptable for adults to want to take in breastmilk ice cream and other products.

Peta are left wing extremist

Submitted by benwaynet (not verified) on Sun, 28/09/2008 - 10:18.

Peta just tries to come up with the most extreme ideas and 'protest' they can think of just to get noticed. They don't have any realistic ideas, they are just as bad as the ACLU.

likewise

Submitted by Family Dad Of Five on Sat, 27/09/2008 - 01:29.

I am definitely with you on that one

Ick

Submitted by josie (not verified) on Sat, 27/09/2008 - 00:31.

I'm a really open minded person and I totally breastfed my kids, but I don't want to drink anyone else's breastmilk. Just thinking about it makes me feel a little squeemish.

Now that is going too far!!!

Submitted by Arna (not verified) on Fri, 26/09/2008 - 17:28.

Sure, I agree about the need to better educate farmers on the care of their animals, but trying to get a big named company to actively put farmers out of a job just to give the calves milk (which, by the way they get no matter what) is just ridiculous. I am actually sitting here laughing, because what is one of the things a nursing mother is encouraged to increase in her diet? Yep, COW'S MILK!!! So, that would then mean, these companies (if they agreed) would be providing human breastmilk that still has COW'S MILK proteins in it. And yes, I am a nursing mother myself, and yes, I am increasing COW'S MILK in my diet to better increase the calcium my body requires. Anyone else think that the plan needs to be thought through a little more? PETA- Start educating people on how to increase the quality of life of an animal and stop trying to turn the world against animal consumption. How you forget that we ourselves are animals, and that our bodies are not designed to an animal product free diet.