I didn’t believe the blog posts talking about how PETA sent a letter to the ice cream company, Ben & Jerry’s, asking them to consider using breast milk to make their ice cream. YUCK! So, I went online and THERE IT WAS in plain sight!

I am aware of how healthy breast milk is for your infant. I breast fed my own children. But it’s pretty gross to think that you are consuming some else’s antibodies, inheriting the bacteria, etc., even though I would imagine the milk would need to pasteurized? Yes, no? What are your thoughts?

SOURCE: PETA.com Posted by Carrie Ann Harris

Update: In response to our letter, Ben and Jerry’s issued the following statement: “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.” Hey, guys, that’s our point: Cow’s milk is for baby cows. Do you think Ben and Jerry’s should use human milk in its ice cream?

Storchen, a (very innovative) restaurant in Switzerland, has just announced that they will be unveiling a new menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent human breast milk. Some folks might think that drinking human breast milk is strange … but really, what’s even stranger is that humans are the only species on the planet that drink the milk of another species.

Storchen’s new menu got us thinking … which product would be fabulously awesome if it were made with breast milk instead of cow’s milk? (Light bulb!) Ben and Jerry’s!

So we wrote a letter to the good people at Ben and Jerry’s, asking them to switch from cow’s milk to breast milk. We explained that using cow’s milk for their ice cream is a hazard to consumers’ health. Even Dr. Spock spoke out against feeding cow’s milk to children, saying it may play a role in the onset of anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and, in the long term, can set kids up for a lifetime of obesity and heart disease (America’s number one cause of death).

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