MILAN – As part of their campaign to get Starbucks to stop charging up to 80 cents extra for vegan milk, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has purchased the minimum number of shares in the company required to submit shareholder resolutions and to attend and speak at Starbucks’ annual meetings.
“Many coffee drinkers are lactose intolerant, and everyone should be intolerant of cruelty to cows, which is why charging extra for vegan milks is hard to swallow. We’re heading to Starbucks’ boardroom to urge the company to end this unfair surcharge” states the animal rights group in a press release
Peta also says the upcharge unfairly targets beverage buyers who refuse to drink cow’s milk “to reduce methane-gas emissions,” because “a single cow emits more of these harmful gases than a car does.”
“In today’s dairy industry, cows are artificially inseminated (raped via an inserted syringe) and calves are torn away from their loving mothers within a day of birth, the release also reads.
Earlier this year, PETA asked concerned citizens to call Starbucks or alert them on social media that this practice of upcharging has to stop
This isn’t the first time PETA has purchased shares in a company that may have questionable practices against animals. In 2011, PETA submitted resolutions to General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Bayer, Proctor & Gamble, and Covance and urged other shareholders to do the same.
