‘You Can’t Be an Egg-Eating Feminist,’ Proclaims PETA India’s New International Women’s Day Campaign 

For Immediate Release:

06 March 2023

Contact:  

Hiraj Laljani; [email protected] 

Sanskriti Bansore; [email protected]  

Bengaluru – Just in time for International Women’s Day (8 March), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India is erecting a towering message in Bengaluru as well as Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Kolkata, urging feminists to stand against the abuse of all females by not consuming eggs or dairy, which are the direct result of exploiting the reproductive systems of hens, cows, and other female animals. 

A copy of the billboard is available upon request. 

The billboard in Bengaluru is located at at KR Circle bus stop, Post Office Road, in the direction of the civil court, Ambedkar Veedhi, Sampangi Rama Nagar. 

“Just as female humans’ bodies are their own, so are those of other animals,” says PETA India Manager of Vegan Projects Dr Kiran Ahuja. “Humans violate female animals precisely because they are female – so that they can steal their eggs and the milk that was meant to sustain their babies. PETA India’s message encourages women to oppose the cruel misogyny and speciesism of the egg and dairy industries by going vegan.” 

In the egg industry, hens bodies are manipulated to produce as many as 300 eggs per year – far more than the 15 per year that they would lay in nature. Because of this, they often suffer from osteoporosis, infections, ovarian cancer, and reproductive tumours, and eggs can even become lodged inside them. If treated well, a hen has a life expectancy of about 10 years. On an egg farm, her body typically wears out after just two, if that. When her egg production drops, she’s considered “spent” and is thrown into a lorry full of other “spent” hens bound for a slaughterhouse or a live-animal market, where her throat is cut while she’s still conscious. 

Cows, like female humans, need to be pregnant or have recently given birth in order to produce milk, so dairy farmers repeatedly impregnate them by forcibly inseminating them – which is done by shoving instruments into their vaginas while they’re restrained in a device that industry insiders abroad have called a “rape rack”. The mothers’ beloved calves are torn away from them shortly after birth so that the milk that was intended for them can be sold for human consumption. 

There’s no nutritional need for humans to eat animal derived foods. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organisation of food and nutrition professionals, vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. 

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – 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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