PETA: If Starbucks doesn't offer free plant milk! We'll glue ourselves to the cabinet!

Recently, two members of PETA in the United States staged a show of "self-touching" in a Starbucks store because they were dissatisfied with Starbucks' extra charges for plant milk, causing a heated discussion on the Internet.

On April 21st, PETA posted several protests on official Twitter about two members of its organization at a Starbucks store. The protest was staged because PETA was dissatisfied with the fact that its company charged an extra 70-80 cents for all plant milk, including oatmeal, soy, almond and coconut milk.

PETA @ went to Howard Schultz in several tweets, saying they were not going anywhere! They will connect closely with your (Starbucks) counter! If you really care about the environment, stick to your values and eliminate the extra charge for vegetable milk. In addition, when Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson retired last month, Starbucks paid him a bonus of $60 million, enough to cover the extra charge of 85714285 cups of plant milk. it also proves that Starbucks has enough money not to charge extra fees!

Several photos attached to the tweet show two protesters wearing black with the words "NOT YOUR MUM NOT YOUR MILK" written on it, and clothes with the words "cancel the extra charge for plant milk". One handle was glued to the glass food cabinet, and the other sat in the packing place and glued his hand to the bar.

PETA is so opposed to Starbucks charging extra for plant milk because they believe that milk production will cause global climate change, which in theory should be an extra charge for milk. Because raising cattle will pollute the environment, the breathing of cattle will increase carbon dioxide emissions, raising cattle and cattle also need to use more water, waste water resources and other environmental pollution problems.

But plant milk is different. Planting plants is much more environmentally friendly than raising cattle. Planting plants can not only reduce environmental pollution, but also reduce water use, but also balabala. And obviously it was you (Starbucks) who first promoted the use of plant milk in coffee shops, but now it's outrageous to charge for it? Must protest!

Indeed, Starbucks started offering plant milk options in cafes. But Starbucks offers plant milk so that lactose-intolerant consumers can drink coffee that needs milk, not for the sake of environmental protection. Later, almond milk and coconut milk were introduced to give consumers more taste choices. The promotion of oatmeal milk is also to promote healthy diet, Starbucks from beginning to end, not because of environmental protection to use plant milk.

PETA will protest at Starbucks in the United States this time because they know that Starbucks in the United Kingdom cancelled the extra charge for plant milk in January, so they think Starbucks in the United States should do the same. In fact, the abolition of extra charges for plant milk by Starbucks in the UK is a regional policy, so not all regions need to abolish the extra charges for plant milk.

Maybe PETA thinks that after the post, he will get a wave of netizens' attention and support. However, there is really a lot of attention, but not to come to support, but one after another in the comments section said:? Yes, this wave of operation makes netizens who drink milk or plant milk see that their heads are full of question marks.

Most netizens said they did not understand after reading it, especially protesting that Starbucks charged for plant milk and gluing their hands to their cabinets with glue. Some netizens also said that it is reasonable to charge extra fees for plant milk, because the cost itself is higher than milk, and the provision of plant milk only gives consumers more choices, which does not mean that they have to pay for it. Some netizens said, don't save them, just let them stick there for a day.

So what happened to these last two protesters? He was taken away by the police, of course, and will face charges of theft and destruction of property. Afterwards, a Starbucks spokesman also said that due to fluctuations in the market price of plant milk, it will not change its decision to charge extra fees for plant milk for the time being.

In addition to this incident, in mid-March, there was already a protest by PETA lying at the door of Starbucks in cow pajamas. Concurrent tweet @ Starbucks said that there is a cow die in front of your store!

PETA's series of operations make netizens wonder if they hope that if Starbucks cancels the extra charge for plant milk this time, then other coffee shops will follow, and they can save a lot of money on drinking coffee.

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