Calf 269

The website declares, "This anonymous male calf will be forever immortalized on our bodies, and hopefully this message of solidarity will somehow bring a new way of looking at non-human animals.

Folkard said that although the protest might be considered extreme, other methods such as fastening oneself to railings and stopping horses by standing in their way were used by women to force authorities to give them a right to vote.

PETA's spokesperson in a statement of support pointed that the suffering endured by non-human animals such as cows, chickens, or pigs when they are branded, have their testicles, beaks or horns cut, is no less than that of humans in a similar situation.

[9] Folkard's planned protests have been described as a disturbing community agitation opposing barbarity inflicted on industrial dairy animals.

[11] Joseph Keating, livestock adviser of the National Farmers Union is quoted in a Guardian story as expressing surprise in response to the English protests.