‘A Recipe for Cruelty and Chaos’: PETA India Blasts Supreme Court’s Unrealistic Animal Round-Up Order

The Supreme Court’s reported directive to round up millions of cows from highways and dogs from everywhere from bus shelters to college campuses—to be imprisoned in imaginary shelters—is nothing short of a recipe for cruelty and chaos. So detached from reality is the order that it even calls for bus depots and railway stations to be fully barricaded with boundary walls to keep out dogs, apparently by judges who forgot to factor in how buses and trains will get out. 

India has an estimated 52.5 million dogs living on the streets, 8 million already languishing in overcrowded shelters awaiting good homes, and around 5 million stray cattle—largely victims of the dairy industry that abandons male calves and ‘spent’ cows once their milk production declines. The only humane and practical ways to address these issues, grounded in science and reality, are the nationwide implementation of the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, and adopting a vegan (dairy-free vegetarian) lifestyle.