Got joke?
If your editors had done their homework, they would know that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has never seriously suggested that college students replace their milk mustaches with beer foam (“Wows and Scowls,” Sept. 27). We revived our tongue-in-cheek “Got Beer?” campaign to make the point that cow’s milk is so awful, even a glass of beer is a better choice. A recently released study suggests that moderate consumption of beer can help protect against heart attacks, stroke, hypertension, diabetes and dementia.
Cow’s milk, on the other hand, is loaded with fat and cholesterol and has been linked to prostate cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and even osteoporosis – the very disease milk is supposed to help prevent. A Harvard University study found that women who consumed the most calcium from dairy foods actually broke more bones than those who rarely drank milk.
Unlike drinking beer, eating dairy foods also hurts animals. Male calves born on dairy farms are taken away from their mothers just days after birth and chained inside cramped, dark crates to be killed for veal. Many of these babies wobble, rather than walk, to their deaths because their legs are so sore and swollen from balancing on slippery, waste-covered floors.
PETA urges everyone, beer-drinkers included, to drink responsibly. Where milk is concerned, there’s no such thing. For more information, please visit PETA’s Web site DumpDairy.com.
Paula Moore
People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals
Norfolk, VA.
Not enough news coverage?
I’m writing with disappointment regarding the news coverage of the opening of the Woodlands Outdoor World Sportsmen’s Center in Farmington. The traffic has been almost bumper-to-bumper for two days. We have something that no one has for several hundred miles around.
I can’t believe that the Herald-Standard didn’t give Mr. Hardy and his family more attention. The cameraman must have had his eyes closed, because the quality of the taxidermy is beautiful along with the facility itself.
With all that Mr. Hardy, his family and Nemacolin Woodlands have done for this area, he deserves more recognition. I’m sure that any school district, town or county would love to have the facility that we have in Fayette County. I’m sure there’s more to come.
Joe Hardy, his family and Nemacolin Woodlands have put Fayette County on the map. For many miles around, people have heard of Nemacolin Woodlands.
So come on Fayette County, let’s wake up and smell the roses and help promote the area, as we will all be winners in the end.
Chuck Craig
Farmington