PETA to Ben & Jerry's: Replace milking cows with milking mothers

[Jojo]

@Sol Invictus

I’m not drinking anyone’s breast milk, especially since doing so when you aren’t a baby can cause cancer.

Yes. And it makes you gay.

[Jojo]

@Armando Penblade

Presumably, the cows got along fine without humans to milk them for a couple million years or so, salwon.

Do I have to explain how dairy farming works? Just go look it up on the internet :)

[stillgray]

@Athryn

Considering PETA’s own history of mistreatment of animals, I find little that they have to say to be worth much. All they care about is pulling political stunts and drawing attention to themselves.

I’m gonna have to say, “So what?”

Nobody was going to take care of those animals, and strays are bad for everyone because of their tendency to act as reservoirs for the lyssavirus (rabies).

That article tries to demonize PETA for spaying and castrating animals, too. What’s the deal with that? Is the writer offering to take care of the unwanted kittens and puppies? I didn’t think so.

[stillgray]

Presumably some people think that freeing the billions of cows that populate this earth, thanks to farming, is a good idea. Never mind the fact that they’ll destroy all vegetation.

Well, I don’t think that the people running PETA actually believe that, and the conditions that many of these large farms are abysmal and cruel. I applaud them for bringing up issues like these.

It’s not unknown for workers to spend some of their time committing abuse just to deal with the annoying conditions that you have to get used to while working with so many dumb, smelly, noisy animals.

If they weren’t so dramatic about their press releases, they wouldn’t be able to bring any coverage to these issues. Can you really blame them?

[Athryn]

@Sol Invictus

I’m gonna have to say, “So what?”

Nobody was going to take care of those animals, and strays are bad for everyone because of their tendency to act as reservoirs for the lyssavirus (rabies).

That article tries to demonize PETA for spaying and castrating animals, too. What’s the deal with that? Is the writer offering to take care of the unwanted kittens and puppies? I didn’t think so.

So what: because it shows that they don’t actually care about animals, especially, as I have stated before at least 2 other places in this thread, that running no-kill shelters are a completely viable alternative.

If I had the money? You bet your ass I would take all those animals in. Since I don’t, I donate what little I have to places that do offer truly humane treatment of animals.

[Jason_McCullough]

@Athryn

Yes, as someone who worked with a no-kill rescue group, what they do is they place the pets with volunteers to foster them until they can be adopted. I fostered for a long time, and it was a very rewarding thing to do.

The group I volunteered for specifically takes animals that are “out of time” at the other animal shelters and gives them the chance they wouldn’t have had otherwise (they do take other rescues as well.) The SF SPCA is the model on which most other no-kill animal shelters are built. These animals are treated very well, and PETA is full of shit. They would rather they be dead. How is that ethical?

“The shelter I volunteered for didn’t do that and PETA sucks” isn’t a general answer to the question of nationwide no-kill shelter policies, you know.

[Aleck]

@~EFG~

Humans are the dominating life form. We have the intelligence (and sentience, to boot!) to exploit the rest of the world to our own benefit, and as long as the exploitation isn’t senseless and without human benefit (ie, shooting cows in the knees and laughing maniacally), and isn’t going to bite us in the ass (will: fossil fuel consequences, won’t: cow uprising), then I am all for it.

How little you know, my friend. How little you know.

[unbongwah]

@salwon

Do they have any (reasonable) ideas for where all this breast milk is going to come from?

You’re kidding, right? This isn’t the Flat Earth Society, it’s PETA - “reasonable” isn’t in their dictionary.

Neither is “hypocrisy,” apparently.

[Leah_C]

I think this is a fantastic idea and can’t wait for the naming contests for new flavors. Coming this December, in peppermint: Mammary Christmas.

[Athryn]

@Jason McCullough

“The shelter I volunteered for didn’t do that and PETA sucks” isn’t a general answer to the question of nationwide no-kill shelter policies, you know.

PETA claims that the quality of life in no-kill shelters is so bad that it is preferable to have the animals killed. I happen to disagree with that, based upon my first hand experience with one of the more prominent no-kill groups in California. I don’t like PETA, I don’t like their tactics, and I think that they do more harm than good. That’s my opinion.

[Moore]

@~EFG~

And we’re back to my plan involving Dobermans.

ew… doberman milk??

[Staff_Sergeant]

Oh god is Sol Invictus on the same side as me? I’ll have to rethink this.

[Jason_McCullough]

@Athryn

PETA claims that the quality of life in no-kill shelters is so bad that it is preferable to have the animals killed. I happen to disagree with that, based upon my first hand experience with one of the more prominent no-kill groups in California. I don’t like PETA, I don’t like their tactics, and I think that they do more harm than good. That’s my opinion.

Oh, fair enough, I’m just surprised there’s no immediatelly obvious good information available about the nationwide overall impacts of no-kill vs. kill. Wikipedia isn’t much help.

[Jojo]

@Leah C

I think this is a fantastic idea and can’t wait for the naming contests for new flavors. Coming this December, in peppermint: Mammary Christmas.

Would you like your ice cream in A, B or C cup? Or there’s the family-size FF.

[magnet]

@Jojo

Would you like your ice cream in A, B or C cup? Or there’s the family-size FF.

2girls1cup plz

[Robert_Sharp]

How can I get my wife to lactate without making her pregnant?

[krise_madsen]

@Robert Sharp

How can I get my wife to lactate without making her pregnant?

Simple. Get someone else to make her pregnant.

Respectfully

krise madsen

[Robert_Sharp]

@krise madsen

Simple. Get someone else to make her pregnant.

Respectfully

krise madsen

Are you hitting on my wife? How much money do you have?

[krise_madsen]

@Robert Sharp

Are you hitting on my wife? How much money do you want?

Fixed that for you.

Respectfully

krise madsen

[Enduro_Man]

At least he insulted your wife respectfully.