Go away, PETArd. While you’re at it, stop using healthcare; most of your cures were made using animal experimentation.

Ryan, you are both a liar and a dork. And just how many lactating women would it take to make a gallon of ice cream? Can you imagine being a woman who must stay preggers to do that kind of work? Unless you’re a hot looking babe for whose breast milk wild horny men would pay top dollar to sip, forget it.

Yeah, Johnson totally needs a lesson in comprehension.

“Furthermore, using cow’s milk in ice cream, cheese and other products is hazardous to human health”

Eating ANYTHING is hazardous to human health. It all comes down to how many people get sick. Last time I checked there wasn’t any breaking news about hundreds of thousands of children getting diabetes from drinking milk.

This editorial is absurd. Peta is absurd. Refering to flat, tasteless, artificially extracted juice from soybeans or rice as ‘milk’ is absurd. Milk is “def: a fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young ; especially : cow’s milk used as a food by humans”.

Similarly, there is no such thing as ‘dairy-free cheese’. Cheese is “def: a food consisting of the coagulated, compressed, and usually ripened curd of milk separated from the whey”. What the anemic Mr. Huling and flacid Peta refer to as “cheese” is better fit by the definition “something cheap or shabby : i.e. cheesy material”.

Peta’s attempt to redefine milk or cheese in this fashion is the equivalent of packaging turds as PayDay bars. And just as tasty! Indeed, there has never been a better time to give Peta the boot! Don’t send these misguided, morally perverted mutton heads the time of day, let alone your hard earned money.

And remember, There’s room for all God’s creatures… right next to the carrots and potatos.

Invictus Maneo

Ryan, Thanks for the response. Your letter was sincere and true to PETA’s work. I think it elaborates on some of the things I was saying in my article about why PETA sent the article. In my defense, and in support of your article, I wrote “PETA most likely sent their letter as a rhetorical request, whose premise was flawed ad absurdum and ad nauseum. They created an analogy that made drinking another animal’s milk equal in displeasure to the milk of the breasts of a plethora of pregnant women. Most people, however, are too busy laughing in derision at the idea to see any logic in it.” I was just disappointed because especially with PETA, most people reject and even laugh at a great deal of earnest work they do because of the way they carry it out. -Patrick Johnson

All I could think about when this guy was talking about cows making milk and then being turned into beef is how delicious that all sounds. God I could go for a hamburger.

Is anyone else sick of Vegans trying to claim that Soy based products taste as good as dairy products? I am truly glad that to the vast majority of people, vegans; vegetarians; and members of peta are viewed as slightly crazy. I will stand by the longtime meat eater mantra “For every animal you don’t eat…I will eat three”.

For every animal you don’t eat, I will eat 3.

Anyone up for going to Five Guys? I think I’m gonna get a two paddy with cheese.

Vegan “Def: Ancient Native American term for lousy hunters”

I think it was an innovative way to raise awareness about the way cows are treated in the dairy industry, which most people seemed to understand. And yes, also to wake people up to how absurd the concept is in general. Humans are the only species to drink breast milk after weened as babies, which is probably why so many of us are lactose intolerant. Although it wasn’t serious, thinking about possible names of ice cream flavors was interesting!

It deeply saddens me to see so much closemindedness from my fellow midwesterners. Just because we were raised thinking all of this is normal does not mean it is—it’s effed up when you think about it, really. People in China are raised to think eating Fido and Fluffy is normal but we think it’s appalling. Step outside of the box for a minute and think past the gimmick to the real message. And watch the videos depicting the reality of hell these animals go through. As for PETA, whether you agree with them or not they do know how to raise awareness. I have seen many discussions come out of this about the effed up dairy industry (clearly not here, however) that somehow I don’t think would have taken place had they sent out press releases just about the cruelty that takes place. Catchy, cute little things like these ideas that get national attention are probably why groups like this are growing by leaps and bounds in membership and support. Now if only the nudists were so pro-active. ;)