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PETA's Proposed Cow Empathy Museum: Good for Cows and the Community
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PETA wants to lease the Portsmouth facility (located just across the river from our headquarters in Norfolk) and turn it into a Cow Empathy Museum, which would enlighten visitors about how cows and their calves suffer on dairy farms. The museum would offer interactive displays so that visitors could be hooked up to a milking machine or crammed into a small crate to give them a taste of the dairy industry's routine cruelty to animals. They'd also learn "cowlture" facts—for example, cows form social hierarchies within their herds, and many cows who have been separated from their calves will do anything they can to find their babies.
Once they are done learning about all the reasons that dairy is a downer, visitors could order soy ice cream treats and other tasty vegan foods in the Cow Empathy Restaurant. And everyone 12 years old or younger would receive a plush toy cow with a tag reading, "Cows Are Cool! Dump Dairy!"
Fingers crossed that the laid-off dairy employees will soon be toasting in celebration of their new jobs at the Cow Empathy Museum, with an ice-cold glass of Silk.
Posted by Karin Bennett
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This is a fantastic idea. A great way to educate the public and increase awareness regarding the dairy industry! Thanks for your commitment to this cause.
Posted by: charlene keraly | June 18, 2009 06:00 PM
Make sure to accentuate that enlightened Hindus and Jains revere and love cows.
Posted by: Brien Comerford | June 18, 2009 08:39 PM
FANTASTIC IDEA!!
Posted by: HEATHER KINCAID | June 18, 2009 10:43 PM
AWESOME IDEA! PEOPLE NEED TO SEE AND FEEL THE PAIN HUMANS INFLCIT ON THEIR "TASTY FOOD".
PEOPLE NEED TO CONNECT THE LIFE OF THE CREATURE BEFORE HE ORDERS IT FOR LUNCH!
ANIMALS ARE LIVING, BREATHING, FEEELING, THINKING AND CARING SOULS THAT WE SHOULD NOT TORTURE! KARMA ANYONE????
Posted by: CAROLYN | June 18, 2009 10:51 PM
Wow this is great! I hope the plan can be carried out so that more people can be converted...
Posted by: Patrizia | June 19, 2009 04:24 AM
I love this idea! I would make the trip from Charlotte to go see it!
Posted by: Andrea | June 19, 2009 10:18 AM
People have absolutely NO IDEA. Please, make this work. Cows are cool!
Posted by: Laura Hafer | June 19, 2009 01:11 PM
On the show "30 days," a hunter agreed to live with a vegan family to see if what they showed or told him would have any effect on the way he felt towards animals.
Surprisingly, the one thing that began to give the hunter a change of heart was seeing a dairy cow lying in the road outside the dairy farm, who had just been dumped there to die. The hunter kept saying "That's just wrong" and it was clearly very upsetting to him.
There's no such thing as "happy cows" on dairy farms. I hope PETA fulfills its dream of turning this facility into a Cow Empathy Museum!
Posted by: andi | June 19, 2009 05:46 PM
this is a great idea im sure the cows will love it they could put video in moooo language and have cows that tell there story. are you kidding please tell me so this would be so unproductive. and by the way hindus bath in cow urine im sure they will mention that. and cows are not cool i have 4 now three because our youngest was killed by its own mother trampled on. beacuse it was a different color. not kidding.
Posted by: justin | June 20, 2009 11:23 PM
Yes, good idea but then encourage the humane treatment of cows. Letting them graze on grass outside in the sun. They will be happy and the milk healthier.
Posted by: Sue | June 21, 2009 08:03 AM
peta should look into semen testing bulls now thats cruel
Posted by: Don | June 21, 2009 01:01 PM
Very thoughtful idea plus employment for laid off workers.
Posted by: Brooks | June 21, 2009 04:21 PM