Der Peta-Brief an «Ben & Jerry's»

Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,

On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, Id like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerrys.

Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerrys replaced the cows milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.

Using cows milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customers health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, Americas leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cows 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-Americas number one cause of death.

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.

And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves cant produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to 17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they cant even turn around.

The breast is best! Wont you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cows milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerrys ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President