Dairy prices are plummeting across the UK so PETA has proposed the dairy industry swap cow's milk for sustainable, cruelty free soya milk that is profitable.
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PETA has sent a single soya bean to the heads of the top UK Dairy producers- First Milk, M üller, Arla and Meadow Foods - with a letter suggesting change.
"We'd like to suggest that the future of milk is green , and we urge you to help dairy farmers transition into farming soya beans, oats or other plant crops that can be turned into kinder, nutritious, delicious, pus-free non-dairy milks", writes PETA . "We're all grown-ups - it's time to wean."
PETA reminds us that dairy foods are the most avoided foods in the UK and plant based milk sales are on a high.
"On British dairy farms, baby cows are stolen from their loving mothers, and all are subjected to a life of misery - just to produce an unhealthy food that British farmers can't even turn a profit on", says PETA Special Projects Manager Dawn Carr. " PETA hopes this single soya bean will blossom into a lucrative new cruelty-free future for UK farmers."
In the letter, PETA - whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way" - notes that cows often suffer from mastitis as their udders are unnaturally large.
When they are no longer able to produce milk- they are sent to slaughter for human consumption.
Heart disease, diabetes and cancer, among other illnesses are also more common in people who drink cow's milk.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk.
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