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Ben and Jerry's Breast Milk Ice Cream?

Fictional FlavorIce cream made from breast milk would benefit both cows and humans, according to a letter sent from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream:

If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.

Using cow’s milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer’s health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow’s milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease-America’s number one cause of death.

Hans Locher, owner of Storchen restaurant in Switzerland, made a big stir after announcing that he will be including dishes containing at least 75% percent mother’s milk to his menu. This spurred PETA on with the controversial idea of breast milk ice cream. Update on the letter from PETA.

This intrigued me. As a vegan, I don’t use any cows milk or dairy products, but I wondered if there were some people out there that did use breast milk in recipes. Here’s what I found:

Breast Milk Recipes:

  • Breast Milk Butter – Add several ounces of fresh breast milk to a clean jar with a lid and shake until you get butter.
  • Boobsicles – Freeze the milk in popsicle molds.
  • Mother’s Milk Smoothie – Add breast milk to fruit and blend.
  • Breast Milk Soap
  • Cheese – Follow your favorite cheese recipe, substituting breast milk for cow’s milk.
  • Sweet Potato and Breast Milk – Bake a sweet potato and mash with milk.
  • Sourdough Bread Starter – Use milk instead of water in your starter.

As a father of breastfed children, I believe that mother’s milk is best for kids, straight from the tap, as it were, and I’m not advocating for breast milk recipes.

By the way, Ben and Jerry’s answer was:

“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.”

So I guess we won’t be seeing the Mother’s Milk and Honey flavor after all…

Image: Ben and Jerry’s Flavor Generator

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  1. Derek Markham says

    October 12, 2008 at 9:12 am

    Leaning towards vegan? Watch this hilarious video: http://www.milkgonewild.com/

    Reply
  2. millie says

    October 12, 2008 at 11:12 am

    “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.”

    what a mind-blowing response! peta should follow up and say: “yes, exactly.”

    Reply
  3. Amber says

    October 12, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    Yeah, wow, that icecream would be SOOO expensive! Doesn’t breastmilk go for like $3 an ounce?!

    Reply
  4. Greg Udell says

    October 12, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    I think I’ll stick to soy milk.

    Reply
    • Adam says

      June 17, 2013 at 7:33 pm

      Umm hey Greg. Before you get stuck into the soy milk, do thorough research on it first. I was the same as you, stopped having cows milk and substituted it with soy, thinking I was doing a world of good to myself. I was then alerted to something about it and rather than give the typical defensive uneducated reply just to boost my ego without possessing the knowledge, I sought to prove him wrong and research the issue. What I found was simply astonishing. Soy was never really big in the western world, it was always an eastern food source. Clever marketing and opportunistic business people, mainly the highly corrupt Dupont family are very much to blame. Did you know that Soya beans are one of the main ingredient in…… Paint?! Yes that’s right, now it makes sense that Dupont, paint and soy come together too perfectly. An oversupply caused them to look for new markets, that market is now the vegan/vegetarian/health conscious exploding market who think they’re digesting something which is good for them. As a result of the changing market, the demand is rapidly outstripping the supply, to the point that Soy is now one of the most genetically modified foods on the planet. Prolonged consumption of soy has been proven to immasculate men and cause a raft of health concerns. Truth is often stranger than fiction. As a result, I’m off all cows milk AND soy milk. WHy do we need it anyway? Is it because our modern society has made us believe that we need to consume some sort of milk? This is a fallacy, our mothers produce it naturally for us as babies until we can ingest solids, after that, there is no logical reason to consume it. Mothers milk is for babies, cows milk is for their offspring and soymilk is just dangerous and not fit for anyone. Just consume filtered fluoride free water with whey powder or other natural protein powder and that can be your milk for the day, plus it’ll be much healthier for you!

      Reply
  5. Daftword says

    October 12, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Several other reasons.
    What was the first person thinking when they drank milk from a cow??
    Benefits of using breast milk as an alternative to other forms of dairy.
    Low transport costs.
    Home made.
    Get another reason to play with boobs.
    Hooray.
    But seriously, mothers milk is very nutritious and full of fat and sugars. We think we’ve got a fat population now, see what happens if we got back to breasts.
    I agree its a comfortable thought however our mothers weened us for a reason.

    Reply
  6. rosed1 says

    October 12, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Peta kills animals and is insane!http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

    Reply
  7. bob clark says

    October 12, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    that’s just ridiculous.

    Reply
  8. Derek Markham says

    October 12, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    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!

    Reply
  9. Sommer-Greenandcleanmom says

    October 13, 2008 at 10:07 am

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

    Reply
  10. Derek Markham says

    October 13, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    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.

    Reply
  11. Adamo says

    October 16, 2008 at 1:48 am

    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?

    Reply
  12. Matt says

    October 18, 2008 at 9:27 am

    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)

    Reply
  13. bela says

    October 21, 2008 at 2:43 pm

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

    Reply
  14. Judy says

    October 27, 2008 at 11:02 am

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

    Reply
  15. Che says

    December 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    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 😀

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  16. EauHaute says

    January 6, 2009 at 4:38 am

    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.

    Reply

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