The Drop Dairy Challenge
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What a week! Oprah hosts a show on food with bestselling author Michael Pollan and The Kind Diet author Alicia Silverstone, who goes vegan food shopping with Oprah’s camera crew. And Mercy for Animals’ new shocking dairy farm investigation lands stories on Nightline and ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer. Today Marisa Miller-Wolfson of Kind Green Planet challenges you to drop dairy for one week!
Those who’ve seen footage of dairy farms wouldn’t have been surprised by the cruelty depicted in the footage. Not only are many of the practices common throughout the industry, but they’re not even illegal, including:
• Calves having their horns burned off without painkillers.
• Calves having their tails cut off without painkillers – a practice opposed by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
• Newborn calves dragged away from their mourning Mothers.
• Cows living in overcrowded sheds on manure-coated concrete flooring.
But it’s the stuff that didn’t land on the news that hit me in the gut. Check out the investigator’s diary for a more complete picture of daily operations.
Read the full post on GirlieGirl Army.
Photo by canadianfamily, flickr.
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