Nearly Nude Pregnant Welsh Woman Slams Dairy Industry’s Cruelty to Calves Outside Cardiff Market

Cardiff – “Cows’ Milk is for Their Babies. Go Vegan.” That’s the message Welsh native and PETA Senior Campaigns Manager Kate Werner, who is 33 weeks pregnant with twins, delivered today (19 August) outside Cardiff Market. Wearing little more than earrings resembling the tags spiked through cows’ ears, chains around her feet, and a milk-pumping bra, she drew attention to a simple fact: just like humans, cows produce milk after giving birth to nourish their babies. The unmissable plea urges shoppers to leave cows and their calves in peace by going vegan.

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“Mother cows in the dairy industry are treated as milk-producing machines, forcibly impregnated again and again so the milk made for their calves can be stolen and sold to humans,” says Werner. “As I approach the birth of my babies, it’s heartbreaking to think of other mothers having theirs taken from them shortly after they’re born, and how this could be ended if everyone chose vegan.”

Mother cows, like mothers of all species, form instant bonds with their newborns, but in the dairy industry, their beloved calves are taken away from them, often within hours after their birth. Cows are forcibly inseminated by workers who insert an arm all the way up to the elbow into the restrained cow’s rectum and insert a metal rod into the cow’s vagina to deliver semen. Newborn males are usually slaughtered for veal, while female calves endure the same fate as their mothers, until their bodies wear out and they’re sent down the ramp to their own slaughter just like their mothers before them.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”— points out that when it comes to the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a cow is a dog is a boy. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

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