Cow’s ‘Dump Dairy’ Plea: ‘Do I Look Like Your Mother?’
PETA Ads Near ‘World Cheese Dip Championship’ Encourage Everyone to Leave Cow’s Milk for the Calves
For Immediate Release:
October 18, 2018
Contact:
Audrey Shircliff 202-483-7382
Just in time for the eighth annual World Cheese Dip Championship in Little Rock, PETA has placed ads on streetcar and bus shelters near the event’s venue, the Clinton Presidential Center. They show a cow alongside the words “Do I Look Like Your Mother? Cow’s Milk Is for Calves. Dump Dairy. Go Vegan.“
The ads are located at the intersections of E. Markham and Scott streets, World Avenue and E. Third Street, and E. Capitol Avenue and Scott Street.
“Behind every bowl of cheese dip is a grieving mother cow and the calf who was torn away from her shortly after birth,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s ads encourage everyone to dump dairy ‘products’ in favor of healthier, cruelty-free cashew cheeses, soy yogurts, almond and coconut milks, and other vegan foods.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way”—notes that humans are the only species to drink milk beyond the age of weaning and to consume the milk of another species. In today’s dairy industry, calves are taken away from their mothers within hours or days of birth so that their mothers’ milk can be consumed by humans instead. Male calves are often shipped off to be caged and slaughtered for the veal industry, while females endure the same fate as their mothers: repeated artificial insemination in order to force them to produce a steady supply of milk until their bodies give out and they’re sent to the slaughterhouse.
The consumption of cow’s milk has also been linked to an increased risk for everything from cancer and heart disease to diabetes and strokes. Fortified soy beverages, however, contain high levels of essential nutrients like calcium, vitamin D, protein, and vitamin B12—with none of the cholesterol, hormones, or cruelty of dairy “products.”
For more information, please visit PETA.org.
