# We all scream for ice cream...right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258 "2008-09-26T00:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/1 "2008-09-26T00:42:22Z")
How about Chunky Monkey PETA style? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow’s milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product. “If Ben and Jerry’s replaced the cow’s milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers - and cows - would reap the benefits,” wrote Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of the animal rights advocacy group. She said dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies and obesity. I love me some ice cream but I don’t think breast milk ice cream is the answer, do you? [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap\_odd\_breast\_milk\_ice\_cream.html?source=mypi](http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_breast_milk_ice_cream.html?source=mypi) ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/2 "2008-09-26T00:49:58Z")
I have to respond to this, because I have a child with type 1 diabetes - or what used to be called juvenile diabetes. I would love to see a study that proved a correlation to type 1 and dairy products. I personally think it’s a load of hooey. There are enough misconceptions about type 1: we don’t need these crazy people to create more. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/3 "2008-09-26T01:11:05Z")
It might catch on at one of those “Olde Tyme Farm” kinda places…you know, where YOU pick the berries, YOU plant the corn, YOU feed the chickens. YOU milk the woman, YOU make the ice cream…hey, get over here, that’s enough milk already!😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/4 "2008-09-26T01:17:31Z")
[Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484754) on this topic, displaying the Dope’s classic style of humor, creating possible names for such ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/5 "2008-09-26T01:25:52Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484754) on this topic, displaying the Dope’s classic style of humor, creating possible names for such ice cream. My bad, it showed up in my local paper 30 minutes before my post, thought I had a scoop. Mods feel free to close this. thanks ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/6 "2008-09-26T01:33:20Z")
Actually, I don’t see any need to close this thread. The other thread was just coming up with names, you seemed to want a discussion on the insanity. 🙂 I think PETA just put another nail into the “NUT” coffin. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/7 "2008-09-26T01:48:30Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Actually, I don’t see any need to close this thread. The other thread was just coming up with names, you seemed to want a discussion on the insanity. 🙂 > > I think PETA just put another nail into the “NUT” coffin. I think there’s always room for two threads about breast milk and the ice cream to be made from it on the Dope. Heck, why not breast milk cheese, breast milk yogurt, or other dairy products? Maybe we should start a crusade to impregnate women so we can stop mistreating cows? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/8 "2008-09-26T02:08:59Z")
PETA is obviously just trying to provoke a response. “EWWW, breast milk is groooss!”, “Yeah, well, why is cow’s milk any less gross?” Idiots. ---
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/9 "2008-09-26T02:18:21Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > PETA is obviously just trying to provoke a response. “EWWW, breast milk is groooss!”, “Yeah, well, why is cow’s milk any less gross?” > > Idiots. You know the old saying, “There is plenty of room for all gods creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes” ? I always thought PETA stood for People Eating Tasty Animals. It seems I was wrong. It really stands for (Poorly Educated Teen Activists) [http://peta-sucks.com/smf/](http://peta-sucks.com/smf/) Who knew? I’d love for a PETA person to defend this position. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/10 "2008-09-26T02:18:53Z")
Is someone working to destroy PETA from within? that’s my guess, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/11 "2008-09-26T02:24:45Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Is someone working to destroy PETA from within? that’s my guess, anyway. Not unless they always have been. This is par for the course, in my experience with PETA. The first I ever remember hearing about them was back around the mid/late '90s they wanted to put (IIRC) pictures of dead, bloody, butchered animals in (IIRC) Burger King kids meals. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/12 "2008-09-26T02:29:42Z")
> [@ShermanAter](#): > > You know the old saying, “There is plenty of room for all gods creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes” ? Or, “If God hadn’t wanted us to eat animals, He wouldn’t have made them out of meat.” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/13 "2008-09-26T02:53:31Z")
“Nut coffin” is another delightful name for ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/14 "2008-09-26T02:59:43Z")
> [@susan](#): > > “Nut coffin” is another delightful name for ice cream. Oh, now you’re thinking! I know what we should serve instead of Rocky Mountain Oysters at the next Dopefest! _waits as all the male Dopers cross their legs and whimper_ 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/15 "2008-09-26T17:54:38Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I think PETA just put another nail into the “NUT” coffin. Nuts go well with ice cream! Unless you have nut allergies, which are also probably caused by dairy products… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/16 "2008-09-26T17:57:05Z")
> [@ShermanAter](#): > > . . . thought I had a scoop. . . . Har. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/17 "2008-09-26T21:08:36Z")
What struck me as odd in PETA’s press release (well, what struck me as the most odd) was the statement about have to keep cows in a perpetual breeding cycle to continue milk production. [Milkproduction.com](http://www.milkproduction.com/Library/Articles/Cow+comfort_Reproduction.htm) agrees with this, but says for optimal milk production a cow should be having a calf once every year, rather than the nine months stated by PETA. Apparently, cows, like humans, will continue to produce milk so long as something is milking them. I’m curious if there are similar issues with human milk production. The internet loves a good six year old who still breast feeds story, but I wonder if the mom’s in those stories would have optimal milk production if they were more regularly reproducing. Hmmmph…the more I think about this plan of PETA’s, the poorer thought out it is. This isn’t particularly shocking, given the source. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/18 "2008-09-26T23:34:06Z")
You know, they actually do make one good point: Why is it considered bizarre for adults to drink human milk (from our own species), but we don’t blink at drinking the stuff that comes out of cows? If they actually did make human milk based iced cream, I’d definitely try it out! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/19 "2008-09-26T23:38:38Z")
> [@susan](#): > > “Nut coffin” is another delightful name for ice cream. Or a… wait for it… wait… wait… y’all ready?.. **BAND NAME!** What? _Somebody_ had to do it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-right/465258/20 "2008-09-26T23:58:35Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > You know, they actually do make one good point: Why is it considered bizarre for adults to drink human milk (from our own species), but we don’t blink at drinking the stuff that comes out of cows? > > If they actually did make human milk based iced cream, I’d definitely try it out! I bet most mothers have tasted their own, either deliberately or because sometimes it splashes and the nearest cloth is over…there…and it’s quicker just to lick it. Tastes like melted ice cream, actually. Very sweet, far sweeter than cow’s milk.