PETA Offers to Put the Brakes on Houston Car Thieves by Creating Can’t Miss “Dairy-Free” Hood Wraps

For Immediate Release:
December 29, 2025

Contact:
Hannah Nelson 202-483-7382

Following reports that Houston is the top city in Texas plagued with car theft, PETA is offering H-Towners a fancy vehicle upgrade: a custom hood wrap that warns thieves to leave both cars and calves with their rightful owners, making the point that baby cows are snatched from their mothers so that the milk meant for them can end up as pizza cheese. The one-of-a-kind wraps—which make vehicles easily identifiable—are available free of charge to the first 10 people who contact PETA.

“No one should be stealing anything or anyone, whether it’s another person’s car or a mother cow’s newborn,” says PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA urges everyone not to be that person in the glass house throwing stones by taking what doesn’t belong to them.”

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, but their beloved calves are taken away from them, often within hours after their birth. 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.

Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year, dramatically shrinks their food-related carbon footprint, and slashes their risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity. PETA’s free vegan starter kit is filled with tips to help anyone looking to make the switch.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or abuse in any way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.