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PETA at the World Dairy Expo
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Yesterday was a big day for the dairy industry. People across the nation were getting their first peek into what dairy farming actually looks like as media outlets covered PETA's recent, revealing undercover investigation into the putrid living conditions and the abusive treatment of cows on one Land O'Lakes supplier's factory farm. At the same time, PETA was dropping in on the first day of the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.
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A couple of passionate ladies were on hand at the Expo to let attendees and passersby know that the dairy industry is dreadful for cows and disgusting for humans. Our undercover investigation revealed that cows at milking stations were caked in feces and urine. It also showed that many of these gentle animals had untreated abscesses that sometimes burst and oozed pus as cows were being milked.
After hearing stories like these, people in Madison were quick to take home copies of our "Vegetarian Starter Kit." Why don't you do the same?
Posted by Shawna Flavell
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Cows' milk is for calves and rice and soy milk are for humans.
Posted by: Brien Comerford | September 30, 2009 08:07 PM
You rock, PETA!
Posted by: Arun | October 1, 2009 12:15 AM
Brilliant!! Everyone knows meat means DEATH to a wonderful animal, but milk is TORTURE to a mother cow. Eggs represent the DENIAL OF FREEDOM to a beautiful female hen.
If we can survive as vegetarians, we will THRIVE as vegans!
Posted by: Brian | October 1, 2009 08:35 AM
Why don't you ever post about protests before they happen? All I ever read about it after the fact. I'll bet a lot more people would come out if you let people know what was going on.
Posted by: Michele | October 1, 2009 10:02 AM
High five Brian - Peta - you rock and Land o Lakes - you suck!!!!!!
Posted by: carla loves soy | October 1, 2009 10:33 AM
@ Michele: If you want to hear about upcoming demos in your area, please visit http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/activist-network.asp to join our Activist Network.
Posted by: Shawna Flavell | October 1, 2009 11:54 AM
"Eggs represent the DENIAL OF FREEDOM to a beautiful female hen."
You don't seem to know that not all eggs are fertilized.
Posted by: Max | October 1, 2009 02:56 PM
Max,
It's got nothing to do with fertilization, and everything to do with battery cages.
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | October 1, 2009 04:38 PM
Max.
you neeed to learn about the egg and dairy industries.
and the best way to learn is to start at the begining: in this case the biology of the animal.
no matter how much we objectify these animals and what they produce, they are still living, breathing biological beings.
cows can only produce milk if they are pregnant. They produce the milk for 6 to 8 months after the calf is born and enough for the calf. In order for (even small dairy operations) to be able to have milk to put in the bottles or cartons they must remove the calf. CALVES DO NOT GET TO DRINK THEIR OWN MOTHER'S MILK because YOU are stealing it.
And cows would not usually be CONSTANTLY pregnant, which IS a life of torture...and I am not even getting into the conditions, milking machines, cramped stalls, shit all over the place, poor access to the outdopors, tethering, etc.
hence, " milk is TORTURE to a mother cow."
Hens produce eggs to REPRODUCE, and NOT for your omelet. NORMALLY if a rooster is present, every egg is fertilized (or most) and after about 6 to 8 weeks, the hen will roost on her eggs (AND STOP LAYING) until the eggs hatch.
Then once the eggs hatch she will RAISE the babies until her next egg cycle the following season, (which means that she would lay between 12 and 16 eggs A YEAR.
but when the rooster is removed, each egg she lays is not fertilized SO, she just keeps on laying and laying and laying (which depletes her little body)
then after about 3 or 4 months she will stop (her body can only take so much) and enter what is called a brooding cycle. But in order to SHOCK her back into laying ALL egg producers (big, small, "free-range", whatever) us a technique called FORCE-MOULTING which consists of starving the hen for two weeks so that her body is forced to start another laying cycle. And so her poor body lays eggs more than 6 times than what is was DESIGNED (by nature, God, whatever) to do.
add to that the factory farms in which hens are kept in cramped confinement and go insane with fear and boredom, and the fact that as soon as the egg is layed it rolls out under the cage, which speeds the process up even more...and now this hen is laying almost 10 times the eggs that she should normally lay...
which means that "Eggs represent the DENIAL OF FREEDOM to a beautiful hen."
and I didn't even get into the size of the cages, the fact that they are stacked together in disgusting shit-filled sheds, and that hens can live up to 4 years in these horrible conditions.
MAX, you need to learn to THINK critically. Do your research and learn. The peta website is a good place to start...and if you want more information about anything that you see here, just google it...and you'll see, we are right, and we are telling the truth.
Posted by: Antoine | October 1, 2009 04:52 PM
I am of the belief that no one over the age of five needs to be ingesting dairy. I know many children who are being raised on a vegetarian or vegan diet and they are the healthiest kids in the neighborhood. They never seem to be sick and they sure aren't fat; their weight is proportionate to their size. Two of them are the neighborhood dog walkers, tending to their own and their neigbor's dogs after school until the guardians get home.
Posted by: Rev. Meg Schramm | October 1, 2009 06:45 PM
PETA is just like sweet Angel to innocent defenseless millions of animals who were born in wrong time and wrong places.
What I like about PETA is power to save/protect animals in large scale.
God bless courageous PETA!
Posted by: Sumiko Kanda | October 2, 2009 01:04 AM
I am very happy with PETA's success....you guys rock!!! I support you guys 100% and many farm animals, wild animals along with domestic and those not mentioned DO NOT STAND ALONE!!! THE WAR IS ON!!!
Posted by: Myrna | October 2, 2009 02:53 AM
what do males do to substitute dairy since there is increasing evidence that soy decreases male hormone? What do you substitute then?
Posted by: Tom | October 2, 2009 11:22 AM
Awesome! The World Dairy Expo was a lot of fun and very interesting. Good dairy products comes from happy and healthy cows! Thanks Peta for making the industry keep the well being of our bovines in mind-keep up the good work!
Posted by: Milk Man Dan | October 2, 2009 03:56 PM
@Tom: If you don’t want to drink soy, you should try rice milk, hemp milk, almond milk, or one of the many other delicious vegan options available.
Posted by: Shawna Flavell | October 2, 2009 05:39 PM
Thank you PETA for standing up to the cruel cow-milk industry.
Humans forcibly-impregnate female cows to produce milk for humans to steal. Newborn male calves are ripped away from distraught mothers to be sold and slaughtered for "veal." Female calves born to mother cows exist in the same cycle of pregnancy and despair. When they no longer produce an economically-viable level of milk, all cows are sent to their early deaths in the slaughterhouse.
For the sake of the victims, don't drink cow milk and support abolition of this exploitation.
Posted by: Brandon Becker | October 8, 2009 01:22 PM
To Antoine, you, like so many others seem to be mistaken and think that mammals (and cows) need to be pregnant to produce milk. That is wrong. Mammals produce milk after they give birth, not only when they are pregnant.
Also animals in nature, such as cows, or their close relatives like buffalo or deer perhaps, reproduce every year (some animals reproduce 2 or 3 times every year) for wild buffalo and deer that is a 365 day cycle roughly. That means that they are pregnant most of their lives, and most of the year. Cows on dairy farms reproduce every 400 days (give or take a few) which is an even longer interval than in the wild! I can assure you that my cows are cared for, groomed, kept clean and comfortable. Our motto is "every cow is a mother and needs to be treated like one." Our cows lactate for some time of the year, then they are "dried off" (no longer lactating) for about 3 months (yes they get a 3 month holiday every year) and then they give birth (on a 400 day cycle) and lactate once again.
Hopefully some of the misconceptions of the dairy industry are cleared up.
Posted by: chris | October 15, 2009 05:51 PM