PETA wants Ben & Jerry's to use human milk instead of cow's milk in their ice cream. "PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health." No word on the deleterious effect it would have on dairy humans and their babies on factory farms.
Even if we ignore for the moment the revulsion factor in drinking some strange woman's breast milk, there are practical matters that make this infeasible. First, all the donor women would have to be restricted from using any sort of drugs or anything that could cause untoward effects on the milk. Second, there is the whole thorny problem of diet. Unless you force all the women to eat grain like we do cows, you are going to get undesirable inconsistencies in the milk. Third, the same factors that make milking cows, it seems to me, would come into play with women, that is, degradation and all the forces of mass-production.
This is just another example that when you start treating animals like humans, you start treating humans like animals.
Yuck. That's all, just yuck...
Rae
The big diff between the cows and humans is that the humans would be doing by their free will and only if they choose to be in the industry. PETA believes cows have the same rights as humans and since they can't decide weather or not to donate their milk, and aren't properly compensated for such, it's enslavement. Using humans would fix that aspect of the dairy industry.
Is Caleb for or against this monstrosity? I can't tell if he is very sarcastic or a closet-PETA.