I think PETA is trying to get people's attention about how crazy it is that we ARE drinking breast milk... from a different species.
Unfortunately, I think this message will be lost on the ignorant masses. PETA has to remember that people are so blinded by the crazy things they eat to know that they're being satirized.
Satire: Let's drink our own species' milk.
Genuine plea: Let's drink soy and other milk alternatives.

Ben and Jerry's or Gags by the pint. PETA is the green movement's problem child for certain.

I nearly threw up my breakfast when I read this. This is seriously the grossest and most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. PETA is freakin' crazy. I'm all about their "let's be nicer to animals and not cause needless suffering" message, but their tactics are awful and alienating.

with those stats there isn't even an incentive to use breast milk seeing as cows milk is slightly better. now i should go throw up for peta even THINKING about this. maybe tracy reiman should try making her own first then pitching the idea to ben & jerrys.

Ew this is disgusting. Breast milk is for babies and babies alone.

I think PETA would rather humans died of starvation and illness rather than animals.

I have heard that breast milk is actually quite gross. And I like my ice cream to taste delicious. The two just cannot mix. Like goat milk and cereal. Yuck. I think PETA is crazy. Mom thinks PETA is crazy. PETA is crazy. Thank god Ben & Jerry are sane or we'd be screwed.

i saw this on SNL the other night and i really did think that it was a spoof but i guess not. i don't know how into this i would be - but that's just me. i can't understand why PETA would think that this is hurting the animal at all...

let's just save it for our babies hmmm....if you're using it in your own cooking in your household thats fine...but in the mass production market...no way!...

I'm an adventurous eater so if it really did come out I think I'd try it. But the concept is pretty gross.

I guess what the first person could be true, but if we were to seriously request a different milk, I could easily list a couple that come from no animal in the first place.

do they actually make ice cream with 1% milk?

Ahem... see what I mean? People don't understand the satire in it.

Just think of the kind of people who would sell their breast milk as a career...now think of the lifestyle they may be living...now picture yourself consuming their lifestyle...yuck!

I like goat milk ice cream by the way!

Yeah, that's MUCH worse than the lifestyle diseased, beaten cows (who can't move in their body-sized stalls, mind you) live. Yum, sounds like a lifestyle we should all take part in! Oh wait, we do.

Ummm...who said there's only cow milk to drink? I'm a big fan of goat milk. They are allowed to free range...at least over here.

I'm not a vegan foxie so my thoughts will never agree with yours but I'm just saying there are alternatives.

I've never actually had Ben & Jerry's before! Damn nut allergies.

It's just funny to me that in a comparison of women's milk to cow's milk, people would be horrified by the prospect of a human (with human rights) giving milk and not even bat an eyelash at the truly sickening dairy industry.
Obviously I'm talking about the dairy industry at large, not the exceptions.

True enough foxie, but even looking at it that way doesn't change the fact that even thinking about breast milk ice cream makes me gag. It's just...ew. Just ew.

where will all the breast milk come from?

i mean, the quantity needed, will producing milk become a profession?

how much can one person produce?

and at the rate necessary, are there enough people to meet the production?

and is there standards set for quality?

My bf says he can't wait until I'm producing milk so he can reach over and put cream in his coffee...I'm sure he's joking but...wtf!

i always thought it was funny that PETA thinks its so horrible for cows to be milked. i worked with dairy cows for over 8 years while i was younger, and i learned that if the cow is not milked at least twice or three times a day, it can actually damage them. they need to be milked to relieve the pressure in their udders.

just my two cents - needed to vent that somewhere

I don't care how ironic PETA is trying to be, the idea itself makes me wanna throw up, and if they're trying to make a joke...well the joke is on them now. By the way soy milk is horrible and I have a pretty good health drinking "milk from other species"...

So basically, there is no good that can come from this. PETA will in turn HURT the cows because yes, cows NEED to be milked. Cows give us milk. We drink the milk. The end.

Yeah, PETA is trying to be satirical here. I guess they thinking about what it would take to mass produce ice cream made from human breast milk will make us think harder about our treatment of cows. I'm all for more humane treatment of animals, but trying to compare cows to humans is missing the point. PETA is retarded.

(I get my milk from well cared for 100% grass-fed cows btw)

I threw up in my mouth a little.

PETA is annoying. Remember, this is the same organization that does not believe in keeping pets. Peta also "rescued" shelter animals only to euthanize them, because it was the humane thing to do.

Having been a nursing mom, I hardly think milking a cow responsibly is torture. Cows are domesticated animals, so without work and humans to provide for them, they would fail to flourish as a species. Dairy was the main food source for many cultures for practical reasons.

"According to a new study, vegetarians and vegans are six times more likely to suffer from brain shrinkage than meat eaters."

Explains alot, doesn't it?

PETA's tactics are so completely ridiculous. They will seriously do anything to get attention. I get very sick of their anthropomorphosis of animals. Cows are NOT people, so why should they have human rights? Responsible dairy farms do not torture their cattle. Like cassedy04 said, if cows aren't milked, they leak milk and are in severe pain. Milking is not painful to the cows nor is it inhumane. Regardless of whether you drink milk or not, comparing cattle milking to "human milking" is probably one of the stupidest campaigns PETA has run. Makes me wonder if Pam Anderson had any say in coming up with it, lol.

@ Cassidy and Jyra = Um... yes.. the cows need to be milked if they're being forcefully impregnated so that they'll PRODUCE milk.
If we didn't inseminate them and cause them to give birth to veal calves over and over again they wouldn't need to be milked.
Nice try though. Gotta love that spin!

Maragon- That's only for vegans & vegetarians with negligent levels of B12. Besides, obese people are more likely to experience brain shrinkage, too, and most obese people eat meat, so.....

foxie you're taking the words right out of my mouth!

it's utterly laughable that people would find drinking milk from their own kind sickening when in reality, drinking milk from any other animal is just so wrong.

Milk is meant to be consumed when one is a baby. That's why mothers stop lactating-- their babies can now rely on other food for nutrients. In this sense, cows only produce milk for their own calves. The only reason we get cow milk is because they're forcefully impregnated.

As for 1%, 2%, etc milk.... they aren't good for you either. As I can't seem to stress enough- humans, animals in general, should NOT be drinking milk past a certain age. Milk is MEANT to make babies bigger/ grow,(if human breast milk makes babies grow how they do, think of all the calories in cow milk... enough to grow a calf!) which is why there's so any calories in it. Making milk 1%, 2% etc. is, essentially, taking away the whole point of milk.

Since fitsugar seems to be full of intelligent, health-conscious people, I would suggest you all read: Skinny b*tch.

No, it isn't about being skinny- it's about learning where your food comes from.

Wow, sippin on the Haterade are we omnis??? Oh the irony. They aren't serious, they just want to bring attention to the horrors of factory farming. foxie and funsized are right on all accounts, the brain shrinkage is from a lack of B12, not from being veg*n. Did you know that the USA drinks the most cows milk in the world, and we also have the highest rate of osteoporosis? The human body isn't made to digest animal proteins. The animal proteins in cows milk leaches the calcium out of your bones! Scoff all you want, but read Skinny B*tch or The China Study first. PETA goes a bit too far some times, THAT I will agree with.

Agreeing with the 3 previous posters.....

Pasteurized, homogenized cows milk is awful for your health!! Go learn about it people!

I think PETA should come up with a goal that can actually be achieved. Reducing the amount of animal protein served per meal. Most Americans eat way too much animal meat. I don't think it has to be all or nothing to make a difference.

I read that too much protein (any type)is what leaches calcium from the bones.

Foxie, funsized and lilruck44 are all in my camp, too.
While I still wouldn't drink the human breast milk, it's "utterly" hilarious to see people's reactions to this proposal. People find it SO DISGUSTING to drink milk from their same species after a certain age, yet the thought of consuming a different species' milk for an indefinite amount of time is SO comprehensible (mostly because of the NUMEROUS propoganda and false ads from the ever-so-rich milk industry who says that if we don't drink milk we'll fall down from osteoporosis - look at the statistics, the US drinks the MOST dairy per year and we have the highest rate of osteoporosis.)

Don't drink milk.

so... would we call it Nip Chip?

"T!t Bit Nipply"

Why do so many people think it's disgusting to drink breast milk because it's only meant for babies, but it's perfectly normal to drink milk from a cow? Shouldn't cow's milk only be for calves?

I doubt PETA was being serious, they are just trying to make people aware of how idiotic it is to drink the milk of another animal, especially here in the U.S. where that milk is full of antibiotics, hormones, steroids, and god-knows-what-else just so the meat and dairy industries can make a bigger profit.

And Kyko is right; if milk is so healthy for you, how come the United States has high incidence of osteoporosis despite the fact that it has among the highest rates of milk consumption in the world? USE YOUR BRAINS, PEOPLE.

I personally would love to see Ben & Jerry's start making rice or soy ice creams.

I don't think people dislike breast mink because it's "meant for babies". They dislike it because breast milk is taboo. Guys online get off on that sort of thing.