Quote Originally Posted by Catty1 View Post

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.