PETA Buys Starbucks Stock, Will Take Fight Against Nondairy Milk Surcharge to the Boardroom

KIRO Radio, PETA has purchased one $88.68 share of Starbucks stock, which will allow one of its representatives to attend the company's next shareholder meeting. Although it probably has a lot of suggestions for Starbucks, right now, it's focusing on the extra 80 cents it costs to swap cow's milk for a vegan or plant-based option.

"Many coffee drinkers are lactose intolerant, and PETA is intolerant of cruelty to cows, which is why charging extra for soy and nut milks is hard to swallow," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman saidImage zoomPETA told KIRO that a number of Starbucks' competitors, including Tim Horton's, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, and Whole Foods, do not charge extra for non-dairy milk.

This isn't the first time the Norfolk, Virginia-based activist group has challenged Starbucks' non-dairy surcharge. In mid-July, it encouraged "environmentalists, feminists, health enthusiasts, anti-speciesists, vegans, friends of cows, lovers of coffee, lactose-intolerant people, and those who just want to make the world a better place" to contact Starbucks on Instagram, on Twitter, or through its customer service number to ask the company to drop those charges.

"Don't get us wrong—we like it a latte that Starbucks offers so many vegan options, such as coconut, soy, and almond milk , but we don't like that customers are being made to pay more to get dairy-free milk with their drinks," PETA . "It's time for Starbucks to warm its cold brew heart and drop the additional fee that it charges for nondairy options."outside the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle, promising that its supporters would be holding signs that read "Vegan Surcharge: Udder Nonsense" and "Soymilk Surcharge Sux."don't seem to have convinced Starbucks to do...

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But Starbucks has redeem points though,I like the fact PETA went the extra mile.

PETA sure does love to discuss milking nuts

With one share they will not be heading to any board room. They can attend the stockholder meeting with hundred if not thousands of other share holders. And if they disrupt the meeting they will kick them out.

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