PETA Requests PM Modi To Serve Vegan Meals at Government Functions

In response to reports that the German environment minister recently banned meat from being served at her ministry’s meetings and events, PETA sent a letter requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead India in a similar direction.

In the letter, PETA notes that Germany’s ministry went meat-free because meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change, which is causing people throughout India to suffer through severe droughts, heat waves, and more. In addition to producing an estimated 51 per cent of worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions, meat production also uses a massive amount of water, land, and food resources.

While more than 194 million people in India are undernourished, 60 per cent of the world’s grain supply is used to feed farmed animals, as it takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce just 1 kilogram of meat. According to the United Nations, a global shift towards a vegan lifestyle is vital in order to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty, and the worst effects of climate change.

Eating meat also causes animal suffering on a massive scale. In today’s meat and dairy industries, chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious, fish typically suffocate or are cut open while they’re still alive, and calves are usually torn away from their mothers within hours of birth. At the slaughterhouse, animals are dismembered while they’re still conscious.

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