Raising Awareness and Turning Heads: PETA India’s Best Demos of 2018

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End Elephant Enslavement Demo (5th December’18, Jaipur): Wearing shackles and chains with her hands painted blood red in protest, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk sat beside two volunteers in elephant masks and called on the government to make elephant rides illegal next year. Newkirk also described to the media how she witnessed mahouts beating elephants at Amber Fort where more than 100 elephants are held captive, abused and forced to give tourists rides.

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Ahead of #InternationalAnimalRightsDay PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk is "chained" in India to show the plight of the abused elephants used for joyrides in Rajasthan.You can help: Link in bio!☝️ #demo #AnimalWelfare #elephant #elephantrides #campaign #PETAIndia #wednesday #animals #wednesdaywisdom

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International Animal Rights Day Demo (7th December’18, Mumbai): Newkirk also stopped traffic speaking up for fish: More fish are killed for food each year than all other animals combined, yet they have no legal protection from abuse. Newkirk encouraged Mumbaikers to spare these sensitive aquatic animals the agony of being suffocated, impaled, crushed and cut open – simply by choosing vegan meals.

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Ahead of #InternationalAnimalRightsDay PETA founder @IngridNewkirk shares fish are just like us in their desire to live. #GoVegan

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Children’s Day Demo (13th November’18, Nagpur): Volunteer “baby chicks” inspired Nagpur residents to go vegan by reminding them that the egg industry kills baby male and other unwanted chickens by drowning, burning, crushing and grinding them up. Workers also feed live chicks to other animals and chuck baby birds into rubbish bins.

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#MondayMotivation ???A group of children wearing chick costumes volunteered for PETA India reminding passers-by that baby chicks are killed in gruesome ways by the egg industry and to let people know that the best way to help stop animal suffering while improving their own health is to go vegan. #WorldVeganMonth

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World Vegan Day Demo ( 31st October’18, Chandigarh): Volunteers from PETA India and Rotaract Club Chandigarh Himalayan wore “bloody” bodysuits to encourage the public to wear only vegan materials, not cruel leather. Cows killed for their skin are crammed onto vehicles so overloaded many do not survive the trip, and are skinned and dismembered while they’re still conscious.

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PETA India & #RotractClubHimalayan volunteers speak up for animals used for leather in time for #WorldVeganDay. Pledge to #DitchLeather today: http://petain.vg/40b (link in bio)

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Gandhi Jayanti Demo (1st October’18, Delhi): To reinforce Mahatma Gandhi’s dedication to nonviolence, PETA India supporters wearing elephant, horse, cow, chicken, lion and other animal masks called on the central government to protect animals from continual violence by strengthening animal-protection laws. The penalties for violating the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960—our nation’s chief animal-welfare legislation—are ineffectively weak and fail to deter violence against animals.

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In the memory of #MahatmaGandhi, ‘Father of the Nation,’ and in respect of ahimsa, PETA India's 'horses', 'elephants', and 'cows' remind people animals need our protection. Join us in our call for stronger animal protection laws: http://petain.vg/2xd [Link in bio] #GandhiJayanti #GandhiQuotes

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World Vegetarian Day Demo (28th September’18, Bangalore): Our supporters wearing cow, buffalo, goat, pig and chicken masks denounced killing and eating animals by unleashing clouds of red powder, reminiscent of countless animals’ blood whom the meat industry murders every day. Inside slaughterhouses, workers hack at animals’ throats with dull blades, usually while they are still conscious and able to feel pain.

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For #WorldVegetarianDay, Bangalore skies were made 'BLOODY' by PETA India members representing the blood of animals who are violently killed in slaughterhouses every day. #WorldVegetarianMonth #WorldVegetarianDay

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World Environment Day Demo (4th June’18, Kolkata): PETA India’s “dead cow”—whose stomach was ripped open and packed with plastic—alerted Kolkata that countless vulnerable land and sea animals suffer and die every day after ingesting huge amounts of plastic trash instead of food, and to responsibly dispose of waste so it doesn’t harm animals.

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PETA India and @veganindiamovement make a replica of a real life cow who had 47 kg of plastic removed from her stomach! #WorldEnvironmentDay #SayNoToPlastic

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World Week for Animals in Laboratories Demo (25th April’18, Delhi): Our lifeless, injured “horse” urged the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to stop antitoxin producers from using horses like blood banks and leaving them to endure slow, miserable deaths from untreated illnesses and injuries.

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PETA supporters request the Environment Ministry @moefcc to end the suffering of horses used for drug production this #WorldWeekForAnimalLabs #WW4AIL2018 You can help horses too. Take action now: Link in bio petain.vg/3d0 . . . . . #GoVegan #PETA #StopAnimalTesting #notourstoexperiment #notourstoabuse #veganofig #animalrights #vegansofinstagram #crueltyfree #saynotomeat #voiceforthevoiceless #againstanimalcrulty #endanimalcruelty #fightforanimals #saveanimals #compassionateliving #animalrescue

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Easter Egg Demo (28th March’18, Bangalore): Adarsh Institute of Management and Technology students crammed themselves into cages to remind Bangalore that mother hens on egg farms are locked in cages so small they cannot spread their wings, maimed shortly after birth and sent to the slaughterhouse when they stop producing eggs.

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Imagine living your life in a cage so small you can hardly move. That's life for hens used for eggs. #Bangalore . . . . . #vegansofig #vegan #govegan #veganlife #vegansofinstagram #PETA #animalrights #vegancommunity #crueltyfree #voiceforthevoiceless #againstanimalcruelty #endanimalcruelty #fightforanimals #saveanimals #compassionateliving #animalrescue @radhica_suryavanshi @aayushee_sharma_

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International Day of Forests Demo (20th March’18, Delhi): Our “tiger”, “zebra” and “giraffe” let Delhi know that killing and eating animals is the single largest driver of habitat loss and is directly causing species extinction, especially as meat producers expand their operations in countries with the highest percentage of unique plant and animal species.

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A "tiger", "zebra", and "giraffe" warn that eating meat contributes to species extinction because of land use and pollution. Blog link in bio ? #internationaldayofforests #saveearth #govegan #gogreen #vegansofig #wednesdaywisdom #activism #animallovers #animalrights #animalwelfare #forests #globalwarming #petaindia #peta

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St. Patrick’s Day Demo (16th March’18, Kochi): To highlight that eating meat, eggs and dairy “products” wrecks the environment and causes climate change, PETA India members dressed in green encouraged passer-byers to eat healthy, eco- and animal-friendly vegan foods instead.

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Check out PETA volunteers who were in Kochi today ahead of St. Patrick's Day. Did you know plant based eating lowers our risk of obesity heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer? ? #veganism #activism #stpatrickday #fridayfeeling #animallovers #vegansofig #peta #petaindia #animalwelfare #animalrights

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Holi Demo (28th February’18, Kolkata): PETA India members painted to look like tigers, cheetahs and zebras took to Kolkata’s streets urging residents to steer clear of cruel zoos, which keep animals in horrific conditions and deny them adequate food, water, housing, veterinary care and environmental enrichment.

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'No More Cages, Say NO to Zoos' PETA volunteers in Kolkata today say animals don't want to be jailed.???? #peta #petaindia #animals #animallover #animalactivists #activism #rights #animalrights #animalwelfare #demo #holi

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National Science Day Demo (27TH February’18, Hyderabad): To raise awareness of how cruel and archaic dissecting animals is—which the government instructed higher education officials to prohibit in 2012—a PETA India volunteer took an animal’s place on the dissection table, urging the public to denounce dissecting animals and to report any cases of it in schools and universities to PETA India.

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Today in Hyderabad! PETA speaks up against animal dissection for #NationalScienceDay. Does your school/college still use animals for dissection? Tell us about it at [email protected] and we will work to stop it. #animalrights #animalwelfare #animalrightactivists #peta #petaindia #vegansofig #nationalscienceday #animaltesting #dissection #animallovers #crueltyfree

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