‘Dinosaurs’ to Urge Hyderabad Residents: ‘Go Vegan or Go Extinct!’ Ahead of International Dinosaur Day

For Immediate Release:

27 May 2024

Contact:

Hiraj Laljani; [email protected]

Atharva Deshmukh; [email protected]

Hyderabad – Ahead of International Dinosaur Day (1 June), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India supporters and the group Citizens for Animals will wear inflatable dinosaur costumes and brandish signs reading, “Stop Eating to Extinction. Go Vegan!” to urge the people of Hyderabad to help tackle the climate catastrophe by eating vegan.

When:             Tuesday, 28 May, 11 am to 12 noon

Where:           Outside Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana 500096

“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 Atharva Deshmukh. “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. New-born 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.

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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