PETA After Ben & Jerry's

[Mouse House Mama]

Check this link out!
Bizzare!http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...erve-meals-cooked-with-human-breast-milk.html
I'm done nursing my youngest, but I'm not totally "dried up" yet, maybe I could get a bell & drive around in really cold weather with the windows down & be "Mrs. Softee"!!!

 

[cats7494]

OK -
So, I am an avid believer in breastfeeding and work very hard against the inhumane treatment of animals and even I find this to be incredibly insane! What are they even thinking!

 

[MrsKreamer]

Not really, yes they get press publicity but most people just and think wasa load of nut jobs, and considering members have been prosecuted for going to animal rescue pretending to rescue animals putting them down and dumping them rather hypocritical.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/index.cfm

PETA claims to be dedicated to protecting animals and treating them "ethically"—it’s right there in the group’s name. But killing animals that could otherwise be placed in adoptive homes isn’t terribly ethical, especially for a group whose $30 million annual income is more than enough to do the right thing instead.

In comparison, the Virginia Beach SPCA, right down the road from PETA’s Norfolk headquarters, managed to adopt out almost 70% of the animals in its care last year. And it did it on a relative shoestring budget.

Adding PETA's 2007 numbers to the mix, we can now document that the group has put down over 19,200 dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens. While it's possible that some of these animals were too broken or sick to be rehabilitated, humane societies in Virginia managed to save an average of nearly 65 percent of their animals in 2007. PETA found adoptive homes for less than 1 percent.

This is because PETA doesn't believe that animals should be pets. When they say "humane" treatment of animals, they mean just that, the same rights as humans.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

I wonder what percentage of it backfires. Personally I'm much more ambivalent about animal rights because of extremist groups like PETA then before I ever heard of them. I know I'm not alone.

There are a number of more rational animal rights groups who can't stand what PETA does. However, from what I understand, PETA does get the most attention, rakes in the most donations and leads the charge on what matters to them most. IMO, it's kind of hard to argue with that.

My wife was a member of PETA and is an ardent vegan and she loves much of what they do. However, a couple years ago, PETA came out with a campaign that compared what happened in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany with the slaughter of animals for food. She stopped donating then and there.

They definitely walk a tight rope with a lot of their campaigns and sometimes, they go over the edge.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

This is because PETA doesn't believe that animals should be pets. When they say "humane" treatment of animals, they mean just that, the same rights as humans.

Oooooohhhhh......so that is why people bring their dogs to the mall! They are actually humans in disguise! Now I get it! See now I just thought the "alleged owners" were idiots!

 

[declansdad]

This just confirms my opinion that these people are nut-jobs! I don't understand how people can support them.

What's next? Frozen yogurt?

 

[Handbag Lady]

OMG they are nuts......

Okay, I do NOT want to know where PETA wants B&J's to get their nuts from now.

 

[Barbossa]

Strawberries-n-Saline

That's good!

 

[Barbossa]

Okay, I do NOT want to know where PETA wants B&J's to get their nuts from now.

Sorry, I am not making a donation to Ben & Jerry's!

 

[eclairemom]

First off Ewwww on the breast milk in ice cream.

Second.....Poor cows last year I saw a Holstein at the state fair that had a baby with her. Her udder looked like it weighed 300 lbs and was almost dragging the ground. This was with a calf nursing. I spoke with a friend at work and asked her if this was normal and she said even with calves Holsteins need to be milked because if they aren't they will get terrible infections because of being engorged. So all you mom’s have breastfed remember what it felt like to be engorged and if you were unlucky enough get mastitis. Just imagine if your breast was a couple hundred pounds and throbbing in pain, I just don’t see how PETA would think that would be better than getting hooked up to a milking machine.

 

[TinkPinkPoem]

This is ridiculous!

 

[bumbershoot]

First, I'm sure that a lot of this is just so that they get people to think about what they are eating. Like the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin wonders who was the first to look at a cow and think of drinking whatever came out of the udder. It makes you think about what you're eating. And that's a good thing.

I guess the next thing they say is that all we're supposed to drink EVER is human milk..... WTH?? Last I checked, I ain't a baby anymore.

So you're a baby cow????


Don't get me wrong, I have my iced lattes with cow milk every so often, I'm too addicted not to, and I've tried to be vegan a few times but the addiction brings me back. But I know how completely ridiculous it is for adult humans to be drinking food that is made to cause baby cows to gain HUNDREDS of pounds in a short amount of time! NOT the best nutrition for a human who doesn't need to grow anymore.

...even cottage cheese?? Mommies and Daddies you know what I am alluding to that stuff already looking like.

Actually I don't. Hubby doesn't either, since he eats cottage cheese most mornings, and wouldn't do so if he thought it looked like something gross. So color me confused.

...and she said even with calves Holsteins need to be milked because if they aren't they will get terrible infections because of being engorged.

It's intriguing to think that evolution or creation caused something to happen to an animal where a human needed to come in and do something lest bad things happen. I know you were just told this...my head-scratching is at your friend's info.




Human milk tastes *different* than cow's milk (and since I've had raw cow's milk (prefer it) I am comparing the exact same thing from each species), sweeter and less mouth-coating than the cow's milk is. But it's not better or worse. Just different. Then again I rarely drink cow's milk straight, so I'm not used to that taste, and comparing them is comparing two tastes that I'm unaccustomed to. (note: the taste test was done a couple years ago, LOL)

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

Hubby doesn't either, since he eats cottage cheese most mornings, and wouldn't do so if he thought it looked like something gross. So color me confused.

I guess you've never watched an infant throw up partially congealed/digested milk then have you? In our house we call cottage cheese 'baby puke' and DH STILL eats the stuff. Bleh.

 

[Tantor]

Okay, I do NOT want to know where PETA wants B&J's to get their nuts from now.

 

[DrCavin]

How about:

Rack-E-Road

 

[Jennasis]

Don't get me wrong, I have my iced lattes with cow milk every so often, I'm too addicted not to, and I've tried to be vegan a few times but the addiction brings me back. But I know how completely ridiculous it is for adult humans to be drinking food that is made to cause baby cows to gain HUNDREDS of pounds in a short amount of time! NOT the best nutrition for a human who doesn't need to grow anymore.


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Are you saying that you have an addiction to milk? Or are you suggesting that humans only eat animal products because we are addicted to them?

And certainly I would never begin to suggest that anybody elses food preference was ridiculous. Vegan, vegetarian, carnivorous. Whatever works for you.

 

[Barbossa]

How about:

Rack-E-Road

Winner!

 

[Briarmom]

How about:

Rack-E-Road

 

[eclairemom]

"It's intriguing to think that evolution or creation caused something to happen to an animal where a human needed to come in and do something lest bad things happen. I know you were just told this...my head-scratching is at your friend's info."


Well they have been bred for many years with the sole purpose of making milk. So the milk production of dairy cows from today is much different than it used to be. I have a picture of this cow at the fair that sparked our discussion last year I was shocked at how full her sack was of milk. My friend currently raises beef cattle and is a graduate of VA Tech.

 

[RitaZ.]

Oooooohhhhh......so that is why people bring their dogs to the mall! They are actually humans in disguise! Now I get it! See now I just thought the "alleged owners" were idiots!