‘You’re No Feminist’: New PETA Video Calls Out Trailblazing Female Runner’s Support of Dairy-Funded Marathon
For Immediate Release:
October 30, 2025
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Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382
In a new video released today, PETA is calling out the hypocrisy of Kathrine Switzer—the first woman to officially compete in the Boston Marathon—for promoting the dairy industry-organized Every Woman’s Marathon and serving as a running captain in the controversial race next month in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the video, PETA points out that there’s no such thing as a pro-dairy industry feminist, given that calves are torn away from their distraught mothers within hours of birth and that female cows are repeatedly forcibly impregnated so that the milk meant to nourish their babies can be sold to humans.
“This miserable milk race makes a mockery of women’s empowerment as it’s organized by an industry that exploits female bodies and slaughters them once their usefulness runs out,” says PETA President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is urging Kathrine Switzer to stand in solidarity with all females, cut ties with the cruel dairy industry, and dump this dairy-funded PR stunt.”
PETA notes that female cows produce milk only when they’re pregnant or nursing, for the same reason human women do—to feed their babies. Given the chance, mother cows form deep bonds with their young. In the dairy industry, cows are repeatedly manually impregnated (raped)—workers insert an arm into the cow’s rectum and a metal rod to deliver semen into her vagina. Newborn males are routinely slaughtered for veal, while female calves endure the same fate as their mothers until their bodies wear out and they’re sent to slaughter.
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