Stupidity & the answer PETA is looking for
So, PETA thinks that Ben & Jerry’s should only use human milk to make their ice cream. Breast milk is liquid gold! If you think B&J’s is expensive now, you just wait!
“PETA points out to [Ben] Cohen and [Jerry] Greenfield that such a move on their part would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health at the same time.” Are you flipping insane? They care more about the utters of the cows than the breasts of a woman. The stress of a cow more than the stress of a woman….
In one day, the day my milk came in when my daughter was a newborn, I was not able to nurse her every feeding b/c she was in an incubator (very bad jaundice), so I pumped. That day, in about 15 hours, all I was able to pump was a little over 64 oz. That’s half a gallon. (Can’t you get that out of about 10 squeezes of an udder from a cow?) Remember, that was the day my milk came in, so of course that means there’s a lot of excess milk. Huge, swollen, tender, leaky breasts…and still only 1/2 a gallon. (B&J would probably spill a little her and there and then would only end up with 1/4 gallon…wow, 1/4 gallon of liquid GOLD!) On any normal day after that, I would manage to get about 8-10 oz of milk throughout the ENTIRE day b/c all of the rest went to my daughter. The same goes for years later when my youngest was going to be having surgery, I started pumping milk to put back just in case something were to happen and he couldn’t nurse after the surgery. I had to take some herbs to build up my milk supply. With nursing him all day long and pumping 3-4 times a day, I still was only able to pump 16-20 ounces of “extra” milk. Again, not enough to make a milkshake with.
Get over it, PETA!
Now, that you all know more about my milk supply than you ever needed to, I will move on to the other stupid story of the week….
A 26 yr old blogger, don’t know her name, don’t care to look it up, wants to have a baby. She doesn’t see marriage in her upcoming future, she doesn’t have a boyfriend; she just wants a baby. She is summoning her readers and Facebook followers to submit pictures and information about themselves so she can pick a likely candidate to father her child. She doesn’t want child support, or a father figure for her child; she just wants a baby. DO WHAT?????
Artificial insemination is out of the question b/c she’s a scientist and doesn’t think that buying semen is appropriate nor is the process of freezing, thawing and inserting. EXCUSE ME?? Not that I think that’s appropriate either, but at least that way the semen would be tested for all of those things we try not to think about. At least that way she could have been more discreet about her “plan” – but then again, like I said, I’m not too thrilled with either idea of hers.
Now if we sit back and think about both of these stories….Stupid is as Stupid does….this girl can be the answer for PETA. Lactation takes place with having a baby. And since she will only have a baby and no father-figure (except for the picture and personal details sitting in her Facebook inbox & the one-night-stand memories) to take up anymore of her time, she can take that extra time to pump her milk and sell to, oh, I don’t know, Swiss restaurant owners. AHA! Problem solved.
