Heather, you are going to have to stop reading my mind.

I think we posted PETA stuff within 30 seconds of each other.

Weird.

I can't believe that anybody takes these wackos seriously...I suppose that when the children who don't like skim milk (but would drink chocolate or strawberry flavored milk) develop rickets, or even osteoporosis, they'll find a way to blame it on the parents....

I was always the weird kid (wow, funny how some things never change) who refused to drink the flavored stuff but devoured the normal like it was going out of style.

But, to each his/her own, no?

hln

Tsk, tsk, Heather. You protest too much.

Of course PETA is going to leverage its objectives off the childhood obesity concerns. Every political lobby does the same thing.

But you really can't deny PETA is right on this issue; obesity in children (and adults) is a problem. And many pediatricians advise cutting back--or eliminating milk--from childrens' diets. Kids will get all the nutrients and vitamins they need from a good diet, minus the fat from milk.

And comparing milk to soda is dishonest; PETA isn't advocating the substitution of soda for milk.

One can often criticize PETA for its occasional over-the-top publicity stunts and campaigns--but on this issue they're 100% right.

Not milking the cows would be cruel treatment of animals. They'd explode!

The fact is, when the milk is gone from the vending machines, there will be soda. The PETA attorney says complaining about the flavored milk is but a step toward banning dairy products from vending machines. Would that incude milk chocolate products as well? Really, candy should not be sold at vending machines in schools – but not because such activity is cruel to animals.

Animals were put here on God's green Earth for us to use (not abuse, I'll give them that).

JadeGold:

PETA may be right in its argument, but you KNOW its motivations, and it goes right back down to the vegan thing and nothing else. It aims to capitalize on the nation's/world's sudden frenzy about "obesity" and whose fault it is or isn't. So I still roll my eyes and call them PETA loons.

And I poke a lot of fun at PETA because I do some animal activism of my own and PETA makes all of us who care about animals look like nutbars, sadly. Radicalism helps no one.

Nice comment. Be mindful always of one thing. My site.

Texas T-Bone: If you follow the bible, indeed. PETA just likes to ignore that whole concept of the food chain, y'know.

hln

some of the posts here are ignorant. a person won't get osteoporosis or rickets. it's been found that women who drink milk get osteoporosis much more than vegan women. beer is more nutritious than milk, though i won't recommend that for kids.
the milk in the vending machines could be replaced with juices. i think it's best if the soda is also removed.
cows won't explode if not milked. the only reason they're in danger from not being milked is because they're given hormones that make them produce more milk than they naturally would, and because their calves are taken away to be made into veal. stop the hormones and let them have their calves and everything would be OK.

someone has to eat the cows though

How come I've never seen a healthy looking vegan? All the ones I know (which is a lot) are very pale and sickly looking. Most, but not all, are frail and don't have a lot of energy.

I've never met an actual vegan until i started the new job. I have to admit, the guy doesn't even have leather seats in his car...but yes, pale and a bit sickly looking.

The best way to combat the evil anti-christ known as vegans is simple..do like i do...and frequently walk in from your lunch break carrying a full rack of ribs, some chopped beef...eat a few bites of each, right in front of the vegan...then throw the rest away, making sure to waste as much as possible while still getting a good meal. If your resident vegan questions you about it or scolds you, remark to them "sorry, i really just don't like the taste of full grown cow. i prefer gutting young ones myself for fresh veal".

:)

Some of you need to wise up, and realize that vegans have more will and heart than most of you will ever have. Although the whole obesity thing, yeah i don't understand why the would they would say that. I myself am a vegatarian, and you have to understand most vegans and what not do understand that cows have to be milked or else it causes horrible pain for them. What you have to understand, it's the way that these coorperations do milk them. So why don't you all just look into what really happens before you go making fun of things you don't know about.