For Immediate Release:
August 13, 2003
Contact:
Anuradha Sawhney (0) 98201 22602; AnuradhaS@peta.org
Mumbai - Despite facing stiff competition from hotties
like John Abraham, Bryan Adams, Pamela
Anderson, Joaquin Phoenix and Diya
Mirza, Bollywood made a clean sweep of last year’s inaugural
online poll conducted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) when more than 15,000 visitors to PETAIndia.com crowned actors
Amitabh Bachchan and Esha Deol the
‘Hottest Vegetarians Alive’. This year’s contest promises
to be even steamier than last year’s. Hot on the heels of our
hot-vegetarian reigning royals are supermodels Yana Gupta
and Christy Turlington, musicians Sir Paul
McCartney and Shania Twain, actors Richard
Gere, R. Madhavan, Aditi Govitrikar
and Mahima Chaudhary, designer Stella McCartney
(Sir Paul’s talented daughter) and many more.
Why are vegetarians hot and meat-eaters not? There’s nothing beautiful
about the heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, cancer
and other diseases associated, in study after study, with eating flesh.
Some of our nominees show that, even into their 50s and 60s, a vegetarian
diet keeps them trim and attractive. Also, vegetarians have a performance
advantage in the bedroom: The artery-clogging fat and cholesterol found
in meat and other animal products impedes the flow of blood to all the
body’s organs, not just the heart.
‘There’s no hotter combination than passion and compassion’,
says PETA India Chief Functionary Anuradha Sawhney. ‘The trend
toward a healthy and kind vegetarian lifestyle is starting to spread
to every corner of the country.’
For more information and to vote, please visit PETAIndia.com.
PETA’s nominees for
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Abdul Kalam (President of India)
Richard Gere (actor)
Dustin Hoffman (actor)
John Abraham (actor/model)
Moby (musician)
Mahesh Bhatt (director)
Bryan Adams (musician)
Anil Ambani (industrialist)
Amitabh Bachchan (actor)
Alec Baldwin (actor)
Feroze Varun Gandhi (poet)
David Duchovny (actor)
Anil Kumble (athlete)
Jude Law (actor)
R Madhavan (actor)
Tobey Maguire (actor)
Paul McCartney (musician)
Rider Strong (actor)
Hemant Trevedi (designer)
Joaquin Phoenix (actor)
Jackie Shroff (actor)
Orlando Bloom (actor)
Harsha Bhogle (Cricket
Commentator) |
Manpreet Brar (model)
Liv Tyler (actor)
Alicia Silverstone (actor)
India.Arie (musician)
Brigitte Bardot (actor)
Kim Basinger (actor)
Angela Bassett (actor)
Ruby Bhatia (model)
Lauren Bush (model)
Mahima Chaudhary (actor)
Juhi Chawla (actor)
Esha Deol (actor)
Aditi Govitrikar (model/actor)
Yana Gupta (model)
Rajlaxmi Khanvilkar (model)
Hema Malini (actor)
Stella McCartney (designer)
Diya Mirza (actor)
Natalie Portman (actor)
Christy Turlington (model)
Shania Twain (musician)
Gwyneth Paltrow (actor)
Amala Akkineni (actor)
Pamela Anderson (actor) |
