PETA's latest campaign...make ice cream from human breast milk

[Miss Z]

PETA wrote a letter to company founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield on Tuesday, telling them cow's milk is hazardous and that milking them is cruel.

This part is so typically overboard PeTA. The milking process isn't cruel at all - on farms I've visited, the cows run willingly down to the milking shed in the morning to be milked. There is also no shame in utilising an animal product, unless it harms the animal, which is my belief as a strict vegetarian. If I for one second thought cows suffered as a result of being milked, then I would avoid milk completely.

What PeTA should have done was address to Ben and Jerry's that it is the conditions in which some dairy cows are kept in which are cruel, instead of suggesting such a ludicrous idea to use human breast milk in their product. Had they done this, then maybe people would listen to them. They should have promoted farms which treat their livestock with kindness, rather than make up stupid suggestions that milk is slowly killing us all, and asked Ben and Jerry's, as well as other companies who use dairy products, to boycott farms which keep animals in cramped conditions and pump them full of gawd-knows-what and generally are making the animals' lives miserable. This would have been so much more effective, and if the businesses had taken note, led to better living conditions for animals as trade would have begun to favour the kinder farms. Yet, as it is, PeTA have once again just humiliated animal-lovers everywhere and gotten nowhere.

[RICHARD]

What PeTA should have done was address to Ben and Jerry's that it is the conditions in which some dairy cows are kept in which are cruel, instead of suggesting such a ludicrous idea to use human breast milk in their product. Had they done this, then maybe people would listen to them. They should have promoted farms which treat their livestock with kindness, rather than make up stupid suggestions that milk is slowly killing us all, and asked Ben and Jerry's, as well as other companies who use dairy products, to boycott farms which keep animals in cramped conditions and pump them full of gawd-knows-what and generally are making the animals' lives miserable. This would have been so much more effective, and if the businesses had taken note, led to better living conditions for animals as trade would have begun to favour the kinder farms. Yet, as it is, PeTA have once again just humiliated animal-lovers everywhere and gotten nowhere.

Thank you for keeping us A BREAST on the treatment of farm cows.

I heard about a farm that will automatically milk cows! How? They have stalls the are computer operated that will be able to hook the cow up to the milking machines and get the milk with no hooman hadns involved! The cows will put themselves into the stalls!

I thought that was a neat idea and amazed that the cows were smart enough to get themselves milked!

[Catlady711]

There were a couple of you that mentioned if only Peta had handled things better/differently.

Apparently they don't want to and will go out of their way to be outrageous on purpose as part of their mission.

Taken from their webpage 'tactics'
http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petatactics.asp

Our gimmicks may sometimes seem silly, but they are vital if we are to reach the masses and initiate discussion, debate, questioning of the status quo, and, of course, action. The current situation is critical for billions of animals, and our goal is to make the public aware of the issues—even if it means stripping for our "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" Campaign.

The fact is that in this tabloid era, the media usually do not consider the facts alone interesting enough to cover. Colorful and controversial gimmicks, however—such as jumping on stage at a fashion show to protest a designer's shameless promotion of fur—consistently grab headlines, bringing the animal rights message to audiences around the country and often the world.

Experience has taught us that provocative and controversial campaigns make the difference between keeping important yet depressing subjects invisible and exposing them to the public.

PETA makes a point of offering something for all tastes-from the most conservative to the most radical and from the most outrageous to the most refined-and this approach has proved to be very successful. In the quarter-century since PETA was founded, it has grown into the largest animal rights group in the world, with more than 2.0 million members and supporters worldwide. PETA has achieved countless victories for animals as a result of both undercover investigations supported by careful documentation and a tireless pursuit of justice through the courts and through colorful demonstrations, stunts, and campaigns that drew international media coverage to previously hidden issues.


Seems to me every time people get into a debate, conversation, or whatever it's just giving Peta what they want.

[columbine]

PETA's appeals to the lowest common denominator make me crave a big fat juicy burger, because they assume that getting intelligent people to respect animals is just fargin' impossible.

Love, Columbine

[RICHARD]

PETA's appeals to the lowest common denominator make me crave a big fat juicy burger, because they assume that getting intelligent people to respect animals is just fargin' impossible.

Love, Columbine

You can has cheezeburgur, if u liek!

[Miss Z]

There were a couple of you that mentioned if only Peta had handled things better/differently.

Apparently they don't want to and will go out of their way to be outrageous on purpose as part of their mission.

Taken from their webpage 'tactics'
http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petatactics.asp

Our gimmicks may sometimes seem silly, but they are vital if we are to reach the masses and initiate discussion, debate, questioning of the status quo, and, of course, action. The current situation is critical for billions of animals, and our goal is to make the public aware of the issues—even if it means stripping for our "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" Campaign.

The fact is that in this tabloid era, the media usually do not consider the facts alone interesting enough to cover. Colorful and controversial gimmicks, however—such as jumping on stage at a fashion show to protest a designer's shameless promotion of fur—consistently grab headlines, bringing the animal rights message to audiences around the country and often the world.

Experience has taught us that provocative and controversial campaigns make the difference between keeping important yet depressing subjects invisible and exposing them to the public.

PETA makes a point of offering something for all tastes-from the most conservative to the most radical and from the most outrageous to the most refined-and this approach has proved to be very successful. In the quarter-century since PETA was founded, it has grown into the largest animal rights group in the world, with more than 2.0 million members and supporters worldwide. PETA has achieved countless victories for animals as a result of both undercover investigations supported by careful documentation and a tireless pursuit of justice through the courts and through colorful demonstrations, stunts, and campaigns that drew international media coverage to previously hidden issues.


Seems to me every time people get into a debate, conversation, or whatever it's just giving Peta what they want.

Thanks for the link.

I understand that radical seems to equal getting noticed, but you can be radical and effective, just as much as you can be radical and end up making a fool of yourself.

I thought their 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur' campaign was a rather good idea. That's radical, and gets them noticed by many people who wouldn't have given head nor tail about fur to begin with. It was to the point, with just a smidgen of humour to get people interested in a very serious point. I actually think that was one of PETA's better 'stunts'.

Incidences more like the one in question, however, just makes animal lovers in general out to be crazy, which instead discourages the masses to listen to what an animal lover's real message is; harmony between the human race and animals.

JMO.

[caseysmom]

I have heard that dairy cows do experience cruelty at least at some dairies..perhaps not so much in the UK. I have heard their udders drag on the ground and become bloodied, not that I condone PETA in any way but its good for people to live with awareness.