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Video: Artist living with cows on Anchor Sq
Political ecologist and artist Nessie Reid is living with two cows on Anchor Square for four nights.
Commissioned by international environmental arts organisation Cape Farewell, The Milking Parlour seeks to explore the values we hold towards our food, and our relationship with the people that produce it.
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The exhibition has been branded an “absurd publicity stunt” by animal rights campaigners.
A spokesman for Animal Aid told BBC Bristol: “The public should certainly be educated about the realities of milk production, but this absurd publicity stunt is highly unlikely to do that.
“The public will learn nothing about the darker side of dairy, such as the fate of male calves, who are often shot in the head at just a day old.”
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