It’s Bovine Mammary Secretion Day! PETA Wants ‘World Milk Day’ Renamed

It’s Bovine Mammary Secretion Day! PETA Wants ‘World Milk Day’ Renamed

London/Rome – Ahead of “World Milk Day” (1 June), PETA sent a letter to the Food and Agriculture Organisation – the agency in charge of the “awareness day” – urging them to stop hiding what cow’s milk really is and rebrand with a more transparent title: “World Bovine Mammary Secretion Day.”

As PETA points out in its letter (available here), cows secrete milk for the same reason that humans do: to feed their babies, but calves in the dairy industry are torn away from their mothers often within hours or a day of birth so that the milk meant to nourish them can be stolen and sold to humans.

“This rebrand reflects the fact that cows don’t make milk because they’re cows, but because they are mothers,” writes PETA Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen. “What you call a ‘global food’ is really a food intended for baby cows and bulls only.”

The dairy industry’s whitewashing of its abuse of animals and its detrimental impact on the planet and human health is misleading consumers, argues PETA, pointing out that the dairy industry – in addition to exploiting cows – releases massive greenhouse gas emissions, and humans who consume milk increase their chances of developing heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and many other ailments.

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. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

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Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]

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