Our Mother’s Milk
Today everybody is talking about the federal government’s proposed bail out of our messed up financial economy … but I’m going to talk about PETA. Obviously I know about PETA – people for the ethical treatment of animals. I feel on the whole that they try to raise awareness about animal cruelty but sometimes are a bit drastic in their approach. Today my husband as well as friends sent me this great news article “PETA Urges Ben & Jerry’s To Use Human Milk: Group Says Move Would Help Humans, Cows.” Everybody was like … “PETA has gone too far”. But have they?
Now lets take a look at this and turn the tables for a minute. Let’s say dairy farmers started breeding humans instead of cows to produce milk. Just bear with me here. So these baby humans are brought into this world with no volition of their own. Their sole purpose is to create milk for other people to drink. What happens to the baby boys? Oh that’s right … there is no need for them. They can’t produce milk. So they’ll get shipped off to some strange confinement place where they get very little food and can’t move just so their flesh doesn’t develop muscles and remains delicious for consumers that like to eat little boys.
Ok … but the baby girls … they can stay because eventually they’ll be able to produce milk. They are separated from their moms at birth because the dairy farmers are convinced they can give the baby girls better supplemental formula than their moms could. When they mature, they are then put in the large “feed lot” type area where they get to live on hard, dirty ground for their entire lives. They live outside … no barn in sight … despite temperature changes that can range below freezing to over 100 degrees. Sometimes the adolescent girls have fans and misters in the summer if the farmers are nice. Then when they are ready, the farmer gets this friends together, mixes up a concoction of sperm from a donor male cow, sticks his hand up her vagina into her uterus to implant some sperm. Now if you ask me, this can’t be good for the farmer or the adolescent girl!
Wallah, in 9 months, the adolescent girl has a baby and that means she can produce milk! But she can’t give her milk to her baby, it’s for other people to drink. Her baby gets taken away … you know where the baby boys go and where the baby girls go. And her milk gets pumped twice a day so that other people can drink and eat it. Ttwice a day this adolescent girl is hooked up to a metal machine that pumps the milk out of her breasts and sends it down these tubes and onto a truck and eventually into the supermarket. If she has a little stray hairs around her nipples, don’t worry! They won’t contaminate the milk because the farmer comes by with a flamer that he blasts across her breasts to scorch off any bacteria or hair just before milking. Then when the adolescent girl becomes a young woman, after all her hard work, she is sent to slaughter so people can eat her flesh.
Ben and Jerry responded to PETA’s request. “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,” said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry’s. I do to which is why I’m writing this blog. Why is it that we take a cows milk away from her child to drink or eat for ourselves? It just seems strange doesn’t it? I mean there are so many other great things to drink like juice, water, soy milk that don’t involve the torture and abuse of sentient beings. Think about it.
The full article can be found at http://www.wptz.com/news/17539127/detail.html.