mmm...Ice Cream

I'm a relatively open-minded person...but it has its limits. Messing with ice cream crosses the line. So when I read this, admittedly, it didn't really surprise me, but it does cross the "now you've gone too far" line...

You see, PETA is encouraging Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream to STOP using cow milk in their ice cream and instead replace it with...wait for it...breast milk. Yep...good old fashioned boob juice. Here's a link to the article: PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk. Lovely.

According to the letter from the Executive Director of PETA to Ben & Jerry's, dairy products are, of course, bad for us...they have "been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. "

BUT WAIT! There's more!

Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.

Friends and neighbors, I don't want to turn this into a rant, but it sure wouldn't be hard. I like good old, 100 percent cow's milk ice cream. The thicker, sludgier, wholer the better. :) It's nice to know that there's somebody out there that has enough time on their hands to care about cows more than they do people, but good grief. Leave me (and my ice cream) alone!