Gold Coast group Coast to Coast Animal Friends to host Brisbane rally against cruel dairy practices

Hundreds of women are expected to turn up to a rally to protest the exploitation of dairy cows tomorrow, claiming the cruel practices are geared solely towards the “violation of the female body.”

FEMALE animal activists on the Gold Coast fighting for change in the dairy industry say its cruel practices are based upon the “violation of the female body.”

Coast To Coast Animal Friends will host their second rally, Women Against Dairy, in Brisbane on Saturday and are expecting to draw in about 200 people.

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Women Against Dairy rally in Brisbane 2018, hosted by Gold Coast group Coast to Coast Animal Friends. Picture: supplied

Campaign Director Linda McCarthy said the entire system was geared towards “the violation of the female body” through a continual cycle of impregnation and the immediate removal of their babies.

The cows’ milk, meant for their calves, is then used for human consumption instead, while calves are slaughtered soon afterwards as “wastage”.

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The animal activists say the practices are cruel to female cows. Picture: supplied

“As women we should be at the forefront,” Ms McCarthy said.

“We are sisters supporting sisters of a different species. We thought as women that we can identify with being pregnant.

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“It’s a horrific industry … and those suffering are the females, from the moment they are impregnated at 18 months and then sent to slaughter around eight years of age.”

Ms McCarthy said cows actually lived up to 25 years old.

“As women we should be at the forefront,” Ms McCarthy said. Picture: supplied

She said the suffering was often portrayed as happy cows in a paddock, with many people unaware of how the industry worked — herself included.

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After bringing up her children on three cups of dairy a day, 11 years ago her 18-year-old daughter approached her and told her how the cows were being treated, Ms McCarthy said.

Ms McCarthy said the rally was receiving positive attention throughout the nation and even across the globe, with Melbourne, England, Scotland and the US to follow next year.

Sydney will hold a rally tomorrow as well.

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Ms McCarthy said colour white was chosen for their cause because it was the colour of milk and the colour used by suffragettes and for those against domestic violence.

The rally will begin at 10.30am with women leading the rally dressed in white.

Men are welcome to attend and participate dressed in blue.

There will also be a non-dairy milk bar serving vegan milkshakes and ice-cream.