PETA India Responds to Halal Meat Hubbub With New ‘Go Vegan’ Billboard

For Immediate Release:

23 April 2022

Contact:

Hiraj Laljani; [email protected]

Radhika Suryavanshi; [email protected]

Bengaluru – Amid calls for a ban on halal meat in Karnataka, PETA India has just placed a new sky-high message offering a solution that renders the whole debate moot: go vegan, and spare the life of a helpless animal who feels pain and fear every bit as much as you do.

The billboards are located at Anepalya, beside Cristian Cemetery, Adugodi Main Road, and on 16th Main Lakkasandra, Marigowda Road, Wilson Garden.

A copy of the artwork is available upon request.

“People who are fighting over how to kill an animal miss the larger point that no animal wants to die and that eating vegan is kinder, safer, and healthier for you,” says PETA India Senior Campaigns Coordinator Radhika Suryavanshi. “PETA India reminds everyone that whether it’s halal or jhatka, meat represents a sensitive animal who endured a miserable life and an unnecessary death.”

Vegan meals spare animals immense suffering. In today’s meat, egg, and dairy industries, huge numbers of animals are raised in vast warehouses in severe confinement. Chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious, cows and buffaloes are forcibly separated from their beloved calves, piglets are castrated without painkillers, and fish are cut open while they’re still alive. People who eat vegan reduce their risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and cancer and help prevent future pandemics – SARS, bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, and HIV all stemmed from confining or killing animals for food, as did COVID-19, as largely believed by experts.

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview – offers a free vegetarian/vegan starter kit packed with tips, recipes, and more. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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