Valentine ‘Angels’ From PETA India to Descend on Bengaluru With Message of Compassion
For Immediate Release:
12 February 2024
Contact:
Atharva Deshmukh; [email protected]
Hiraj Laljani; [email protected]
Members of the Group Will Urge Passers-By to ‘Have a Heart: Try Vegan’
Bengaluru – Dressed in red gowns and angel wings, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India members will distribute red roses and Keventers vegan scoops to couples and other passers-by just ahead of Valentine’s Day. Holding a sign that reads, “Have a Heart: Try Vegan,” the Valentine “angels” hope to encourage everyone to show compassion for animals by switching to healthy and humane vegan eating.
Where: World War Memorial, 5 Brigade Road, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025
When: Tuesday, 13 February, 12 noon sharp
“Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to show love for all living, feeling beings by choosing vegan foods,” says PETA India Campaigns Coordinator Atharva Deshmukh. “By going vegan, you’d not only be saving the lives of countless animals but also doing your health and the environment a favour.”
The dairy industry separates frightened calves from their distressed mothers so that humans can steal the milk meant for them. Male calves in the dairy industry are commonly abandoned, left to starve, or killed because they can’t produce milk, and the beef industry is largely able to exist because the dairy sector supplies it with cattle to kill.
In addition, eating meat and other animal-derived foods has been linked to heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancer, and obesity, and confining and killing animals for food promotes the spread of zoonotic diseases, such as SARS, bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, HIV, and COVID-19. A United Nations report concluded that a global shift towards vegan eating is necessary to combat the worst effects of the climate catastrophe.
The classic milkshake brand Keventers, established in 1925, was honoured with a Best Vegan Ice Cream award by PETA India in 2023 for its exciting vegan scoops made from coconut milk.
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.
#
