Hi, this is Taylor Crumbi, senior producer.

You have one new message and no saved messages.

Yeah, good morning. This is Laura Slid from Bartlett, New Hampshire calling again, just leaving a general message on my way home from my little vegan cafe in Chikurwa.

There are only three vegans that I've come to know well in my lifetime.

First was my vegan bandmate, Chet, who I met working at a burrito joint.

Second was Chet's vegan girlfriend, Christine, she smoked American spirits.

And third is this woman, Laura Slit.

I heard Virginia Prescott interview Elaine Kossrova

regarding the virtues of butter.

Oh my God.

Laura is both impossible to avoid and easy to ignore.

She's been emailing me since I first started producing radio more than eight years ago.

Okay, so the other side of the virtues of butter is that it comes from the milk of pregnant lactating cows who are restrained, artificially inseminated.

Some emails are long threads.

Some are just one short sentence, stabbed out in all caps.

As I wrote this opening, a message from Laura actually popped up in my inbox,

the reality of nursing on bovine lac deal secretions, it said.

Attached was a jay peg titled fetal cabs.

It is not a cute picture.

In thanks for their service for providing the dairy industry

and the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industrial complex.

As you can hear, her voicemails, also somewhat regular,

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