A Buddhist monk wearing traditional robes has superglued his hand to the caf\u00e9 counter at the Starbucks store at the intersection of E. Adams Street and S. Michigan Avenue downtown<\/b> and is surrounded by PETA supporters chanting, \u201cSave the planet! Save the cows! Stop the vegan upcharge now!\u201d The action is a continuation of PETA\u2019s campaign\u2014backed by Sir Paul McCartney and Succession <\/i>star James Cromwell\u2014calling out Starbucks for charging extra for <\/span>the vegan milks it agrees <\/i>are better for the planet<\/a>. It\u2019s being livestreamed on Facebook here<\/a>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cStarbucks\u2019 punitive price hike on vegan milks is bad for cows, bad for the planet, and bad for lactose-intolerant customers, many of whom are people of color,\u201d says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. \u201cPETA will stick to Starbucks like glue until it agrees to drop the vegan upcharge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n PETA supporters\u2014including Cromwell\u2014have held \u201cglue-ins\u201d at the Starbucks caf\u00e9 at the company\u2019s Seattle headquarters and at the Starbucks store in New York\u2019s Times Square to protest the upcharge. McCartney has written to former and current Starbucks CEOs asking them to drop the upcharge. Starbucks itself points out that the dairy industry is a top producer of the greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate catastrophe and encourages customers to choose plant-basted milks\u2014while continuing to charge more for them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Cows used for dairy are artificially inseminated\u2014workers insert an arm into the animals\u2019 rectum and a metal rod to deliver semen into their vagina\u2014and then sent to slaughter once their bodies have given out after repeated pregnancies.<\/span><\/p>\n PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to eat or abuse in any other way\u201d\u2014opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit <\/span><\/span>PETA.org<\/span><\/b><\/a> or follow the group on <\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/b><\/a>, <\/b><\/span>Facebook<\/span><\/b><\/a>, or <\/span>Instagram<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> The post Happening Now: Buddhist Monk Superglued to Starbucks Counter<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n This post was originally published on Animal Rights and Campaign News | PETA<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Buddhist monk wearing traditional robes has superglued his hand to the caf\u00e9 counter at the Starbucks store at the intersection of E. Adams Street and S. Michigan Avenue downtown and is surrounded by PETA supporters chanting, \u201cSave the planet! Save the cows! Stop the vegan upcharge now!\u201d The action is a continuation of PETA\u2019s… Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n The post Happening Now: Buddhist Monk Superglued to Starbucks Counter<\/a> appeared first on PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7722,2153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701398,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701397\/revisions\/701398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}