Amanda Gorman‘s landed in scorching water, or ought to we are saying heat milk … as a result of PETA’s coming after her for supporting a dairy industry-funded run.

The poet laureate and activist lately joined forces with MilkPEP — a advertising and marketing arm of the dairy {industry} that created the well-known “Received Milk?” adverts — to promote the inaugural Each Girl’s Marathon, that is touted as “the one U.S. marathon designed for girls, by girls.”

MilkPEP and Gorman launched an advert the place she recites a poem over totally different pictures of ladies working and coaching. Try the vid — it is a catchy poem and a fairly inspiring message.

However, not everybody’s giving it two udders up. PETA’s written a letter to Amanda questioning why she would help an occasion placed on by MilkPEP … primarily, within the org’s eye, cosigning the dairy {industry}’s alleged mistreatment of animals.

Lisa Lange, the animal rights group’s senior VP of communications and distance runner, wrote the letter and expressed confusion at Gorman’s partnership … including she’d “no extra drink cow’s milk on the finish of a race than I might smoke a cigarette.”

LL says any lady who participates within the occasion is a sucker, falling for a trick by the dairy {industry} — which she accuses of destroying the setting, inflicting the cows bodily and emotional misery and making a big a part of the American inhabitants sick, resulting from lactose intolerance.

Within the letter, PETA requires Gorman to again out of the occasion, saying the “voice of a technology” should see “exploitation” of a feminine of any species — bovine or human — as flawed.

FWIW … Gorman’s supported animal rights causes up to now, even encouraging others to rescue animals from shelters after her beloved canine of just about 20 years died just a few months in the past.

As a lot as PETA agrees along with her on that problem — they’re clearly not on the identical web page the place this marathon’s involved. Not even shut.

We have reached out to Gorman, however up to now, no phrase again.