‘Polar Bears’ to Occupy Downtown Starbucks Over Earth-Killing Pro-Dairy Policy

For Immediate Release:
August 3, 2023

Contact:
Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382

On Monday, a pack of “polar bears” will pound the pavement to the Market Square Starbucks store and urge the company to stop charging customers extra for vegan milk—which incentivizes them to opt for dairy, even though the industry is a top producer of the greenhouse gases that are contributing to melting the ice caps, killing polar bears, and driving the climate catastrophe. The pleading “bears” are the latest action in PETA’s campaign calling on Starbucks to end the upcharge for vegan milks, which the company already agrees are better for the planet.

When:    Monday, August 7, 12 noon

Where:    7 Market Sq. (near the intersection with Forbes Avenue), Pittsburgh

“Starbucks admits it has a massive carbon footprint from its use of dairy, yet the company still refuses to put the planet over profits,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is calling on Starbucks to give a frap about the polar bears who die on melting ice caps and the forcibly impregnated cows whose babies the dairy industry steals from them by ending the shameful vegan milk upcharge.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

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