‘Dinosaurs’ to Urge Bhopal Residents: ‘Go Vegan or Go Extinct!’ Ahead of Earth Day
For Immediate Release:
21 April 2026
Contact:
Apeksha Tamane; [email protected]
Sanskriti Bansore; [email protected]
Bhopal: Ahead of Earth Day (22 April), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India) and Animals With Humanity (AWH) supporters will wear inflatable dinosaur costumes and hold signs reading, “It’s 2026: Time to Evolve! Go Vegan!” and “Eating Meat is Primitive: Go Vegan” to urge the people of Bhopal to help tackle the climate catastrophe by eating vegan.
When: Tuesday, 21 April, 12 noon sharp
Where: Boat Club, Shyamala Hills, Bhopal 462001
“Raising animals for food is a leading cause of environmental degradation, as it requires massive amounts of land, energy, and water while emitting enormous quantities of greenhouse gases,” says PETA India Campaigns Coordinator Apeksha Tamane. “PETA India urges people to help mitigate the worst effects of the climate catastrophe by choosing vegan foods.”
Meat, egg, and dairy production is a leading cause of pollution, ocean dead zones, habitat destruction from land use, and species extinction. It uses one-third of the world’s freshwater resources and, by some estimates, creates more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world’s transportation systems combined. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that every person who goes vegan lowers their food-related carbon footprint by up to 73%, making it conceivably the single biggest way to reduce one’s negative impact on the planet.
Vegan eating also helps animals. As PETA India reveals in its video exposé “Glass Walls,” chickens used for eggs are confined to cages so small they can’t even spread a wing. Cows and buffaloes are crammed into vehicles in such large numbers that their bones often break before they’re dragged off to the slaughterhouse, and pigs are stabbed in the heart as they scream. On the decks of fishing boats, fish suffocate or are cut open while they’re still alive. Newborn male chicks in the egg industry are ground up, burned, or buried alive since they can’t lay eggs, while male calves in the dairy industry are commonly abandoned, left to starve, or killed since they can’t produce milk.
Each vegan person spares the lives of up to nearly 200 animals per year. In addition, people who eat vegan diet reduce their risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Raising animals for food is also a leading cause of water pollution and water and land use, and a United Nations report concluded that a global shift towards vegan eating is necessary to combat the worst effects of the climate catastrophe. PETA India offers a free vegan starter kit for those ready to switch.
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, “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, Facebook, or Instagram
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