Breast Milk Ice Cream? Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream was asked by PETA to make its creamy delight from women’s breast milk, rather than cow’s, to bring attention to the fact that they believe that the milking of cows is cruel.
Now, I agree with B&J that they can be applauded for their creativity for bringing attention to this issue–but let’s put attention on WOMEN where it really matters. For example, in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Lyerly, Little, and Faden say to include pregnant women in research rather than exclude them because they unfairly never receive the benefits of research because none is ever done on them.
I say leave lactating women out of my ice cream and let’s put pregnant women in research. Everyone will be better off.
Summer Johnson, PhD