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“Milk is Murder” in red paint stunt

Alf | 02.02.2007 18:06 | Animal Liberation | Health | Cambridge

Today animal rights protesters covered dairy products and beef with red paint in the ASDA supermarket in Cambridge. The action was in designed to highlight the link between live exports and the milk industry. According to a spokesperson for campaigners “when consumers buy milk products they are supporting the inhumane export of young male calves from the milk industry to other European countries, the animals, if they get there alive may be subject to conditions so inhumane they are illegal in the UK” . According to the protesters, they are exported in order to be raised in veal crates for their 'meat'. "This trade causes suffering and distress to both the baby calves and the mother cows, who have their babies taken at a few days old."





The action was planned to coincide with Jill Phipps Week of Action, Ms Phipps was killed under the wheels of live export truck whilst protesting against the trade. A spokesperson for the protesters says “Jill died trying to stop this terrible trade, we hope that everyone will keep her fight alive until the trade ends for good”.

The protesters are calling for a boycott of all dairy products as well as veal and say that they “hope that the people of Cambridge get behind the boycott in a big way and replace dairy with healthy non-animal products”.

Alf


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  1. Milk is suicide — Dan
  2. You really need to rotate and resize such pics before uploading — sid
  3. Wankers. — Mandy Osmosis
  4. I Agree — Welsh Andy
  5. . — .
  6. fuck the dairy industry go vegan — MILK is MURDER
  7. bootiful H5N1 — dp
  8. Prices — Steve Mclean
  9. dead birds — vegan earth
  10. Get a Grip — John
  11. dry your eyes — vegan earth
  12. People who should be shot — not Banksy
  13. vegan — AR
  14. Sorry... — Mr. Humph
  15. Property is theft? Milk is theft! — ARA
  16. vegan proposaganda is offputting — Not vegan
  17. Do they look at animals the same way too? — miracle to be alive
  18. Dead birds give away — Central
  19. "Why are animals so less important than humans are?" — Mr. Humph
  20. harsh punishments — Hammer Horror
  21. Meat and health — Mr. Humph
  22. interests — ARA
  23. So what if I do? — Mr. Humph
  24. intelligence — ARA
  25. Mr. Humph — DVD
  26. ALF/Bite Back — ALF are HEROS
  27. BiteBack and ALF sites — ARA
  28. What next? — DVD
  29. Build a bridge – get over it! — ARA
  30. Not very clever. — DVD
  31. Negative? — ARA
  32. PETA.... — DVD
  33. PETA — ARA
  34. I beg to differ. — DVD
  35. Promoted Newswire — ARA
  36. Idiots — Sarah
  37. You now question my activism? — DVD
  38. Any group could have done it. — DVD
  39. Direct Actions — ARA
  40. Movement unity??? — DVD
  41. netcu — piper alpha
  42. And another child creeps out of the woodwork. — DVD
  43. DVD?????? — ALFie
  44. Thanks ALFie — ARA
  45. Do something? — DVD
  46. Free speach. — DVD
  47. Go on then — ?Questions?
  48. Information maybe? — DVD
  49. animal rights movement — ARA
  50. Small movement? — DVD
  51. NetcuNTS — Earth Rising
  52. All mouth, no action? — DVD
  53. biteback — ARA
  54. Bite Back — DVD
  55. involvement — ARA
  56. Good target, bad job — sarah12
  57. The light at the end of the tunnel.. — DVD
  58. Good Job Good target — (V) (A) (E)
  59. Go (v) (a) (e) !!! — ARA
  60. You're all as bad as the meat-eaters — PJ
  61. To Steve Mclean — PJ

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