I could live with this.
Mammary Madness, Peanut Butter Double D Cup and Chunky Monkey Around… Seriously?!
You have to give it to PETA, they know how to get people talking. Their latest idea is refreshingly devoid of splattering fur-wearing models with blood and disparaging people who eat meat. No, the newest ingredient on the “cruelty-free” menu is, get this, breast milk. Click here for the article.
After I stopped laughing, I felt like I should go brush my teeth or powerwash the inside of my brain, its just so weird to me. As a mother who breastfed her child for as long as I produced milk, the idea of selling that milk to make ICE CREAM (Ben and Jerry’s) is just nasty… and foreign and weird. The more I thought about it, the more questions popped into my head. Questions like:
- Where are they gonna get all that milk?
- Are we going to let all the cows out of the Braums dairy farm and replace the stalls with lactating mothers?
- Who would actually eat this ice cream? I mean the grossness of it all is that it IS a human secretion… which I guess cow milk is a secretion too, but I dunno, its weird.
- I know “breast is best”… but isn’t that for BABIES?! Til they are TWO YEARS OLD at the latest?
Then there are the social implications of this. The fact that there might be companies out there paying for breastmilk could put many children at risk. Mothers who are on a lower income bracket, who don’t have the social awareness of needing to protect and take care of their children above all else… they might be the ones who “benefit” from the short term paycheck, but lose in the end when their children become malnurished or neglected. The social implications of this are broad and I would hope that those cases would be rare, but I believe there is an ethical side to this “silly” idea.
Haha. Breastmilk Ice Cream. What do you think?
