The milk thing doesn’t bother me either way…I don’t care for milk, so I could easily live without it. I do think that it can be good for a person, but I won’t dispute the notion that cow’s milk is also linked to health problems in humans…I don’t know enough about this, and I don’t doubt it, either. I don’t agree with PETA in most respects, but I completely disagree with the mistreatment of animals. I was going to give the arguement that if a cow is not milked, she will endure pressure, pain, and possibly infection; which is true. However I read PETA’s article and didn’t realize that milk cows are continuously kept pregnant. I guess it’s kind of naive of me to have thought that they just keep producing milk. So in a sense, it would benefit cows if people did not drink their milk, but it would also cause them pain (at least in the beginning until they become dry). http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1194,00.html
I absolutely love animals, but PETA is ridiculous! And they need to get their facts straight…humans are NOT the only species on the planet that drinks the milk of another species. There are plenty of animals that will willingly take the milk from animals of other species. It happens all the time. Mothers abandon babies and other animals will feed them. It happens in places like zoos, but it happens in nature, as well. I also read some of the other articles on their website and it seems that they often write without doing proper research. The article about the tattooed pigs is incorrect, in that the artist who tattooed them, first sedated them, so they were not being restrained and most likely did not suffer any anxiety or fear. I am in no way saying that tattooing pigs is ethical…I’m sure they were in pain when they awoke. All I’m saying is that PETA is quick to accuse without having (or heeding) the truth.
Regardless of the fact that this was only an ironic ploy used as a publicity stunt, PETA would be a much more credible organization if they included all of the facts in their articles. In my personal opinion, PETA is completely absurd and outlandish. But then again, that’s the way you get controversy and attract people’s attention, so they must be doing something right.