PETA India’s ‘Most Influential Vegan’ is … Vedanta Teacher Acharya Prashant!
For Immediate Release:
8 December 2022
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Mumbai – To celebrate his work to spare the lives of animals exploited by the meat, egg, and dairy industries by advocating vegan living, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has named Vedanta teacher Acharya Prashant its 2022 Most Influential Vegan. Meanwhile, Monica Shah and Karishma Swali have received the group’s Compassionate Designers Award for their leather-free design label JADE, and Maharashtra Additional Director General of Police IPS Dr Ravinder Singal has received the Humanitarian Award for promoting dog adoption, cracking down on cases of cruelty to animals, spearheading an initiative to feed community animals during the pandemic, and assisting with a raid on a notorious wildlife smuggler in Nashik.
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The award recognises Prashant’s efforts to encourage everyone to live a conscious, non-violent life and to respect all living beings through vegan eating. He has consistently advocated against the mistreatment of animals in the meat, egg, and dairy industries and made millions of people aware of the perils of consuming animals and “products” stolen from them, highlighting how vegan living and spirituality are solutions to the global crisis of poor health and environmental damage.
“Animals in need have heroes by their side in Acharya Prashant and our other award recipients,” says PETA India Manager of Vegan Projects Dr Kiran Ahuja. “Whether they are inspiring vegan eating or vegan fashion, encouraging dog adoption from shelters, or helping to fight crimes against animals, PETA India is delighted to recognise them for being the animal rights powerhouses that they are.”
In today’s meat, egg, and dairy industries, huge numbers of animals are raised in vast warehouses in severe confinement. As PETA India reveals in the video exposé “Glass Walls”, chickens killed for food are often shackled upside down before their throats are slit. 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.
PETA India offers a free vegan starter kit to help everyone embrace vegan eating, which also reduces the risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity; helps fight the climate catastrophe by reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and can even prevent future pandemics. COVID-19, SARS, swine flu, and bird flu have all been linked to confining and killing animals for food.
PETA India – whose motto reads, “animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
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