New York Students: Learn Unsanitized Dairy Cow Experience, Singer Billie Eilish Declares Meat Eaters Don’t Love Animals, Environment
Editor’s note: The “Mobile Dairy Experience” is an apparent propaganda virtual experience that perpetuates the same sustainability story that has been repeated by the meat and dairy industry, but it is not actually true. In places where dairy farms are, including Upstate New York as elsewhere, they use the factory farming model, not an open-pasture grazing-based model. Outside of their farms in general is one or more large vats of feces. Animal feces that smells really badly and that sits in pools exposed to the outside air and weather, and when it rains, they overflow, polluting local waterways and watersheds and causing environmental damage. These mobile events also focus on the businesses that sell dairy that will be present at the school event and who largely sponsor the organization that takes this story on the road to local schools. Some school districts in New Jersey actually take their kids to the factory farms, so they get to see what it is really like from the inside. However, that is not what this is. This is a curated, 3-D visual experience of life on the farm for dairy cows. Evidence continues to stack up that meat is not good for you, and that dairy is actually unhealthy for people to consume. Recent research is showing that dairy, along with meat, causes cancers of various types and severities. While it is not always sufficient once one has contracted cancer to simply change one’s diet to reverse it, prevention is always the best idea. Adopting a vegan diet, or at the very least a plant-forward pescatarian diet and avoiding meat and dairy – especially processed meats, the body will become less inflamed and cancer may be prevented. According to recent research, a high percentage of cancers are lifestyle-related, usually resulting from a lack of exercise as well as a poor diet. Only 6% of cancers can be attributed to one or more of the genetic defects that people are being tested for recently (BRCA1 and BRCA2). According to a 2008 study, 5-10% of cancers are genetically determined, while the rest are due to lifestyle: “Only 5–10% of all cancer cases can be attributed to genetic defects, whereas the remaining 90–95% have their roots in the environment and lifestyle. The lifestyle factors include cigarette smoking, diet (fried foods, red meat), alcohol, sun exposure, environmental pollutants, infections, stress, obesity, and physical inactivity.” From the Attica School District in New York about this dairy experience event:
PETA’s Talking Cow Tells NY Students What Big Dairy’s Promo Tours Won’t
New York — There’s a bovine battle brewing in New York classrooms. As the New York Animal Agriculture Coalition rolls its self-promotional 53-foot “Mobile Dairy Experience” trailer to elementary schools across the state, PETA is countering Big Ag’s propaganda tour with Carly the Cow—a talking, mooving animatronic cow who’s telling students the truth about who cow’s milk is really for—their babies. And the kids? They’re eating it up—along with the free vegan ice cream sandwiches.
TeachKind, PETA’s humane education division, has already brought Carly to more than a dozen New York schools this spring, where the life-size cowbassador has shared with the students fun facts (cows can smell up to five miles away) and similarities between cows and humans (all mothers love their babies)—while emphasizing that bullying is never OK, whether it’s a cow or a classmate. Students who’ve met Carly have told her, “I love you, Carly!,” and when asked how they can help cows, they often respond, “We can treat others the same way we would want to be treated” and “We can help by not eating dairy products!”
‘Billie Eilish Is Right’: PETA Backs Up Singer’s Vegan Appeal With Massive Times Square Message
After Billie Eilish sparked backlash for saying people can’t love animals while eating them, PETA is amplifying her message with a massive new billboard towering over Times Square.
PETA’s billboard in Times Square. Image Credit – PETA
New York — After Billie Eilish ignited a heated debate by declaring in an interview that “eating meat is inherently wrong” and that people can’t love animals and eat meat at the same time, a new nationwide blitz of messages in support of the singer’s announcement courtesy of PETA is going up around the country—starting with a sky-high appeal in Times Square. The gigantic display—next to McDonald’s and Popeye’s—is giving passersby food for thought, including fans headed to watch Billie’s new concert film at the AMC and Regal theaters on 42nd Street.
Eilish’s comments caused an uproar among defensive meat-eaters, prompting her to double down on Instagram and share graphic footage with her more than 125 million followers showing calves being kicked and thrown into trucks, twitching pigs being dragged across the slaughterhouse floor and bashed in the head, and other horrors of the meat and dairy industries.
“[G]o watch a documentary or two and some footage of what is done to the animals u claim to love and what it does to the planet u pretend to love as well,” she wrote. “[I]f that footage was hard for u to watch I encourage u to pls take a look at urself.” And many of her followers did—with people posting that Eilish opened their eyes, including, “Billie Eilish made me go vegan” and “Just saw Billie’s Instagram story. I am now a vegetarian.”
“If you claim to love animals but you’re still eating them, you’re lying to yourself, and Billie Eilish and PETA aren’t afraid to say it,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “Helping animals, the environment, and our own health is as easy as leaving animals off our plates, and PETA’s free vegan starter kit can help anyone make the switch.”
PETA points out that pigs are soothed by music, cows mourn when a loved one dies or when they’re separated from each other, and chickens enjoy taking dust baths, roosting in trees, and lying in the sun. Yet in the meat, egg, and dairy industries, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds; chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious; piglets are castrated without painkillers; and cows in the dairy industry have their babies torn away from them shortly after birth.
Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year, dramatically shrinks their food-related carbon footprint, and slashes their risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity.
Billie Eilish’s Instagram story.
PETA’s billboard is located at 1530 Broadway in New York.
Banner Image: Billie Eilish is right billboard. Image Credit – PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, and PETA entities have more than 9 million members and supporters globally. PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals. PETA works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.