Photos: PETA Activist Drinks ‘Cows’ Milk’ From ‘Udders’ in Plea to Londoners to Ditch Dairy
4 September 2024
Photos: PETA Activist Drinks ‘Cows’ Milk’ From ‘Udders’ in Plea to Londoners to Ditch Dairy
London – This afternoon, a PETA activist drank “milk” from the udders of a life-size cow statue to protest against the cruel dairy industry, which forcibly impregnates cows and then takes their babies so that humans can drink their milk instead. A nearby banner reading, “Looks Weird, Right? That’s Because It Is! Ditch Dairy. Please, Choose Vegan,” and a floor sign reading “Not Your Mum? Not Your Milk!”how unnatural it is to drink the milk of another species. Animal rights activist Jamie Logan, who made headlines last year after crashing Coach’s runway show during New York Fashion Week, also got in on the action by engaging with passers-by about PETA’s demonstration and encouraging Londoners to choose plant-based milks.
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“It’s absurd for any human to guzzle the mammary secretions of a mother cow that are made to feed her own baby,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner. “PETA urges Londoners to leave cows’ milk for calves and opt for delicious, cruelty-free plant milks made for human consumption, like soya, oat, or almond milk.”
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – notes that cows exploited for their milk are artificially inseminated and their calves are taken from them shortly after birth so that their milk can be sold and consumed by humans instead. Male calves, who are considered a by-product by the dairy industry, may be shot in the head soon after birth or sentenced to a short, miserable life before being killed and carved up for veal. Most female calves are destined to endure the same fate as their mothers: they’ll be used as milk machines until their bodies give out and they’re slaughtered for meat.
PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow the group on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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