Sanders interrupted by anti-dairy industry protesters during Nevada rally

[left-of-center2012]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was interrupted by anti-dairy industry protesters at a presidential campaign rally in Nevada on Sunday.
“Bernie I’m your biggest supporter and I’m here to ask you to stop propping up the dairy industry and stop propping up animal agriculture,” one protester, Priya Sawhney, said after taking the microphone from Sanders. Sawhney was part of a demonstration by the animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere.

Three other topless women also crashed the stage with the words “let dairy die” written on their chests, before pouring milk cartons full of fake blood on themselves. The women who were topless were arrested for indecent exposure and are held on $2,500 bond each, according to Direct Action Everywhere.

“If Bernie truly cares about justice, he will stop propping up the dairy industry, which relies on the abuse of female cows,” Sawhney said in a statement shared by Direct Action Everywhere. “I love Bernie, but we must hold abusive industries accountable, not shield and subsidize them. Animal farming is an industry which gives welfare payments to millionaires,” Sawhney added. “People are fed up. Like the Sanders campaign itself, animal rights is a burgeoning mass movement.”

The animal rights group claims “the dairy industry remains notably absent from” Sanders’ “condemnation” of factory farms.

A spokesperson for the Sanders campaign was not immediately available for comment.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/483323-sanders-interrupted-by-anti-dairy-industry-protesters-during-nevada-rally

[Blue_true]

1. I am no Bernie fan, but what is he supposed to do, not support an industry that provides

lots of jobs in his state? This is analogous to Booker and pharmaceuticals or Warren and Biotech.

[dware]

2. In Nevada also.

There's a huge dairy operation in the Amargosa Valley in S. Nevada that provides hundreds of jobs, it's the one of the biggest employers in Nye County and it pays a lot of taxes to the coffers of Nye County.

I've made a few deliveries to the Ponderosa Dairy and it's a huge operation.

[Blue_true]

4. Funny how real life don't simulate fantasies.

Things aren't evil because they exist.

[left-of-center2012]

3. "what is he supposed to do, not support an industry that provides lots of jobs"

How about coal miners in West Virginia, PA, KY, etc ?

[Blue_true]

6. You make a good point.

Some things have broader damage than their financial contribution to society. Whether dairy farming falls into that category is debatable.

I am a meat eater. I eat 25% of the meat that I used to. A large amount of my diet now is plant based.

How would I handle industries that cause some or a lot of harm? I would slowly wind them down, being careful to insure that people get new employment or retire comfortably. I wouldn't demand that they shutdown immediately like the woman that talked to Bernie seemed to have done, or how Bernie himself talks about fossil fuel industries. Now my method would not be perfect because those industries will still pollute as they are wound down to zero, but nothing in life is ever perfect.

[delisen]

5. Or financial industry in NY?

[Blue_true]

7. Yes. Or the defense industry in some places.

Before we demand immediate shutdown, we have to have jobs that people put out of work can move into.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Oookay!

A topless woman protesting dairy. You can't make this shit up. (mixed emotions)