Rebecca Romijn and Her Twins Star in New 'Got Milk' Campaign

ADORABLE LITTLE GIRLS!!!!

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A reviewer on Salon.com a few years ago dismissed "Skinny Bitch" as "a thinly disguised vegan manifesto." In the comment section, I responded, "What's wrong with a vegan manifesto?"

Why is it acceptable for Christians to tell others killing the unborn is wrong, but unacceptable for others to tell Christians killing animals is wrong?!

Regarding veganism vs. vegetarianism, man is the only species that drinks the milk of another species. All other species drink the milk of the mothers of their own species until they are weaned. Cow's milk is the perfect food--IF you're a baby calf!

To mass produce cow's milk on a large scale via factory farming, cows have to be kept continually pregnant, giving birth, and lactating. The cows are genetically bred to produce excess cow's milk for humans. Male cows (bulls) are useless to the dairy industry, so they become veal. By supporting the dairy industry, one indirectly supports cow killing.

One of the first books I read on the subject of vegetarianism while in college was A Vegetarian Sourcebook by Keith Akers (1983). Describing the environmental damage caused by raising animals for food: topsoil erosion, deforestization, loss of groundwater, etc. as well as the economic inefficiency and waste of energy and resources in raising animals for food in an age of exploding human population growth, Keith Akers foreshadowed John Robbins' Diet for a New America (1987), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

In A Vegetarian Sourcebook, Keith Akers writes:

"Using grasslands for livestock agriculture creates great environmental problems, which greatly limit its usefulness. Grazing systems require ten times more land than feedlot agriculture, in which animals are simply given feed grown on cropland. Grazing systems have to be extensive in order to avoid the catastrophic consequences of overgrazing--which renders a piece of land unsuitable for any purpose.

"Overgrazing and the consequent soil erosion are extremely serious problems worldwide. By the most conservative estimates, 60% of all U.S. rangelands are overgrazed, with billions of tons of soil lost each year. Overgrazing has also been the greatest cause of man-made deserts.

"Even if we grant grazing a role in a resource-efficient, ecologically stable agriculture, milk should be the end result, not beef. Milk provides over 50% of the protein and nearly four times the calories of beef, per unit of forage resources from grazing.

"'When only forage is available, then egg, broiler and pork production are eliminated and only milk, beef, and lamb production are viable systems,' state David and Marcia Pimentel, scientists and authors of Food, Energy and Society. 'Of these three, milk production is the most efficient.'

"An ecologically stable, resource-efficient system of grazing animals for human food could not be anything faintly resembling today's livestock agriculture. It would be a smaller, decentralized, less intensive system of animal husbandry devoted to milk production."

So it may be possible to have animal agriculture (devoted solely to milk production) on a small scale--like the Amish. But the rest of humanity, with an exploding population in the billions, will have to be vegan.

According to the editors of World Watch, July/August 2004: "The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future--deforestization, topsoil erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities and the spread of disease."

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, similarly says: "...the survival of our planet depends on our sense of belonging--to all other humans, to dolphins caught in dragnets to pigs and chickens and calves raised in animal concentration camps, to redwoods and rainforests, to kelp beds in our oceans, and to the ozone layer."

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Great, now this ad will convince young naive moms that cow's milk is good for babies when breast is best! Not only that they will look forward to the day that their babies can drink cows milk when there are proven links of autism with milk and that milk is the main cause of allergies.

Every time I see ads like this I realize how obese the future of our country really will be in the near future...it is quite sad.

Rebecca should be ashamed of herself, stooping this low for some money (which I am sure she has plenty of!)

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Simply adorable!

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What cute babies she has.They are clearly fraternal.She is better off without John Stamos.See if he ever settles down?

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She has beautiful children, a nice husband and gives to help animals. I'd rather see Rebecca on every magazine cover than most of the people in Hollywood.

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Vasu Murti has it right! I mean come think about it, why is it that humans are the only species to drink another animals milk! You dont see a cat drinking a deers milk! It does cause alot of allergies. Hello its from a whole different species! And for the record i have read the book Skinny Bitch, its a great book! I recently discovered coconut milk, its much better than cows milk, and its still creamy and refreshing. Try it, i'm hooked

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I hate these "Got Milk" ads. The milk mustache looks so fake.
The fake look is what I object to.
It certainly does not make me want to drink milk.
Come on, at least make the coating of milk look "real"!

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"...man is the only species that drinks the milk of another species. All other species drink the milk of the mothers of their own species until they are weaned." This is actually a false statement. Sit a bowl of milk in front of your pet cat and watch what happens. Many orphan mamals will drink milk from an adopted mother, just watch news from zoos on occasion. Ever watch farms animals in the fields? The young horse foal, has been known to suckle from a cow if his mother is not available....

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Wendy wrote that Rebecca gives to help animals. Drinking cow's milk DOESN'T help animals. They're exploited with 99% of them confined to factory farms, never seeing the outside, never breathing fresh air, never feeling the grass beneath their feet. Their horns are cut off without anesthetics; their male calves are taken away to be slaughtered for veal and when their milk-producing days are over, they're killed and turned into hamburger. If Rebecca, or anyone reading this cares about the suffering of animals, they'll go vegan.
Sorry Wendy, you brought it up.

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