Last Day to Benefit Mothers’ Milk Bank of Ohio
[Note: post edited to censor the picture. I’ve been asked to take down the picture of the shirt due to a ridiculous claim by the National Pork Board that the humorous lactivist slogan “The Other White Milk” infringes on the Pork Board’s trademark “The Other White Meat.” Now I can understand if someone where trying to sell, say, goat’s milk on television as “The Other White Milk” that that might be a problem. But a lactivist joke t-shirt about breast milk? Lighten up National Pork Board!] My Lactivist t-shirt arrived the other day! Sorry Jennifer, I’m not the greatest model for your fabulously funny shirts, but I thought I’d show off my new shirt as a way to remind people that today is the last day that 100% of profits from t-shirt sales from the Lactivist CafePress store will be donated to the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Ohio. As I discussed yesterday in the article MilkShare Site for Informal Milk Donation, it’s important to support non-profit milk banks. Whether or not you attended the national nurse-ins at Delta airlines counters or will attend the Wal-Mart nurse-outs this coming Saturday, buying a Lactivist t-shirt to benefit the milk bank is one way you can participate in your own bit of lactation activism.
CafePress is offering free shipping on orders of $50 or more with the promo code VDSHIP at checkout. So if you were thinking of buying a shirt, now’s the time! To read more about Jennifer’s fundraising efforts, read Milking You to Benefit Donor Milk Bank. As promised, I’ll report back the amount of funds raised over the last two months!
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3 opinions for Last Day to Benefit Mothers’ Milk Bank of Ohio
Rosomaqa
Feb 1, 2007 at 3:20 am
Are you serious?! I suggest you contact some media (online or otherwise) with information about the absolutely ridiculous way the National Pork Board is behaving! Or maybe contact their management? Maybe it was just some officious low-level busybody who contacted you?
Angela
Feb 1, 2007 at 6:12 am
I know, crazy isn’t it? I don’t make the t-shirts, I just ordered one because I liked them and I wanted to benefit the cause of donation of breast milk to non-profit milk banks. The person who makes the shirts has been asked to destroy all evidence of them (or be faced with a lawsuit!) so she contacted me to ask me to take down the picture. Hopefully she will be able to work out a resolution with the National Pork Board.
Sinead
Feb 1, 2007 at 8:00 am
I like the idea of getting the media involved. There would be uproar - look what happened with the whole airlines thing!
It’s just incredible that they are being so petty about it - after all, if they think it’s too similar to their own slogan isn’t that like getting some free advertising for them from a great cause!
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