Friends NOT Food Cow T-shirt

Cows are intelligent beings who experience love, pain and fear, among other emotions. Yet, they are commodified for their flesh and their bodily fluids meant for their own offspring.

The beautiful girl featured on this shirt is a dairy cow that I spent some time with at the World Dairy Expo. I call her Bernadette, which means “brave as a bear.” Like the 2,300+ cows at this annual 5-day event, she was tied up with a very short leash preventing her from moving much. Typically curious as cows are, she managed to stick her nose into a large fan and slice it open. Do you see her stitches? My heart breaks for Bernadette and all the others brought into this world for the sole purpose of human benefit.

Many people, including vegetarians, are surprised to learn the truth about the dairy industry. The notion that animals are not harmed or killed to produce cows’ milk, ice cream, butter, etc. is a falacy. Inherent in this business is the separation of babies from their mothers shortly after birth, which is very traumatic. Male calves are of no use to the industry because they don’t produce milk. As a result, they are slaughtered as babies to become veal, after leading lives confinement and severe restriction which prevents muscle development. Female dairy calves follow in their mothers’ hoof steps and are repeatedly impregnated so that their bodies will continue to make milk. Like humans, they carry their young for 9 months, but have their children taken away. Once they are “spent,” or no longer profitable, dairy cows are killed long before living out their expected natural lifespans.

Please help spread the word that cows are our friends, NOT our food.

DETAILS

• Black shirt with Bernadette cow print on the front, Dirty Snouts logo on the left sleeve.

• 100% cotton. Available in adult (unisex), women’s cut and youth sizes. See the t-shirt sizing guide in the photo gallery and the tabs below for more detailed shirt information.

• Ten percent of all direct sales are donated to farm animal sanctuaries. See the Animal Friends page for current sanctuary recipient(s).

• Eco-friendly, printed by hand with water-based inks in Wisconsin. Ethically produced in WRAP-certified (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production), sweatshop and child labor free factories.

• Size exchanges only. Please contact me prior to ordering if you have any questions.

NOTE: Shirt and ink colors may vary a little bit from what you see here, as all monitors and screens are different.