Comments on: Ben and Jerry's Breast Milk Ice Cream?

By: breast milk ice cream | Psychobabbling

breast milk ice cream | Psychobabbling — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:13:36 +0000

[...] cow milk but not human milk, when the latter is actually intended for us. As discussed on Eco Child’s Play, PETA wrote a letter to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream suggesting that they replace one with the [...]

By: EauHaute

EauHaute — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:38:21 +0000

I love ice cream, but have developed a systemic allergy to all products containing cow proteins.

If there were FDA approved (or known donor) ice cream made from human breast milk, I’d try it.

By: Che

Che — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:27 +0000

So, I happened upon this while looking for things to do with my leftover frozen supply of breastmilk(for my 10 month old son who will no longer drink from a bottle and only from the “tap”). I think I will make him some ice cream! Maybe we can serve it with the cake at his 1st Birthday Party! j/k

By: Judy

Judy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:02:17 +0000

Under kosher rules, human breast milk has been categorized pareve, fyi.

By: bela

bela — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:43:33 +0000

Heck I breastfeed my son.
If B&G is looking for breast milk… I’m selling!
This idea is funny… but not so bad.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:27:12 +0000

I wonder what Ben and Jerry’s thinks about a cows milk.
They say that they “… believe a mother’s milk is best used for her child”
[“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.”]
Isn’t it then the same they they should believe that… ‘a cow’s milk is best used for HER child’? (my emphasis)

By: Adamo

Adamo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:48:43 +0000

That’s hilarious. Great piece of stunt marketing I guess. I’m sure some smart-alec will come along and say that mother milks isn’t really vegan anyways as ‘human’s were used in the making of the product’! No?

By: Derek Markham

Derek Markham — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:25:13 +0000

I like Coconut Bliss vegan ice cream, and don’t ever buy Ben and Jerry’s or any other dairy product. I have issues with the entire dairy industry, even the organic “happy milk”.

I think the whole idea of breast milk ice cream was definitely very funny, but the funniest is the huge variety of reactions to it…

Try the Ben and Jerry’s Flavor Generator. You can name your flavor and take a screenshot of the ice cream container.

By: Sommer-Greenandcleanmom

Sommer-Greenandcleanmom — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:07:03 +0000

I guess I’m not really sure about eating ice cream made of breast milk. Thanks for this information. I’ll keep reading.

By: Derek Markham

Derek Markham — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:35:56 +0000

FYI, the PETAkillsanimals.com site is a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a front group for the restaurant, alcohol, and tobacco industry.

Check out SourceWatch’s page on the group, and look who’s funding them: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom

You really have to watch the spin on these issues, and Source Watch is a great place to start!