Archives for the 'milk' tag
Where Soy Milk Really Comes From
Why Buy the Cow?
From today’s Wall Street Journal front pager on the stimulus bill:
Dairy and beef cattle producers butted heads over talk that the government might buy up dairy cattle for slaughter to drive up depressed milk prices.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the image of families scrimping and saving to buy milk for the children a classic Depression tale of woe? Here we are, with the 1930s foremost in everyone’s minds, and we’re going to legislatively order the deaths of a bunch of cows in order to keep prices high as a favor to a small but powerful group of dairy farmers?
Who will think of the children?
Breast Milk Update
Here’s an update on the Swiss restaurant owner who is replacing cow’s milk with breast milk in the food he serves: Apparently, he’s created a trend…
Yesterday, PETA wrote a letter to Ben & Jerry’s, urging them to replace cow’s milk with breast milk in their ice-cream:
Using cow’s milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer’s health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow’s 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-America’s number one cause of death.
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The breast is best! Won’t you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow’s milk to breast milk in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream?
Ben & Jerry’s response?
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.
We (Brad, co-guest blogger and I) agree . . . no thanks PETA. It seems like PETA is devaluing their own mission here by making ludicrous requests — do they really expect Ben & Jerry’s to go around the country gathering breast milk from lactating women? Cows are better suited for the job and it’s definitely cheaper. Plus, breast milk tastes best from the teat, which is why it’s for babies. So, let’s keep it that way.
Swiss Restaurant to Feature Dishes Made With Human Breast Milk
Human breast milk is coming to the menu of a Swiss restaurant, The Guardian reports. Owner Hans Locher explains why:
“We have all been raised on it. Why should we not include it into our diet?”
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Mr Locher attracted the attention of the leading media of the German-speaking world this week after he posted ads looking for women donors, who will receive just over three pounds for 14 ounces of their milk.
He said: “I first experimented with breast milk when my daughter was born.
“One can cook really delicious things with it. However, it always needs to be mixed with a bit of whipped cream, in order to keep the consistency.”
Yuck. I’ll pass, thank you. Though I am disgusted, I’m also heartened that Swiss regulations seem to permit a kook cook like Locher to whip up any sort of food he’d like, so long as it isn’t going to kill anyone and (creepy) customers might want to partake.
[Via Slashdot]
