‘Bloodied’ Woman ‘Served’ on a Plate in a PETA India and Vegans of Mysuru Pro-Vegan Demonstration Ahead of World Food Day
Ahead of World Food Day (16 October), a “bloodied” PETA India and Vegans of Mysuru supporter lay “lifeless” on a giant plate alongside vegetables and a huge knife and fork. Other PETA India supporters held signs that read, “Peace Begins on Your Plate – Please, Go Vegan,” urging people to ditch meat and follow a plant-based lifestyle. PETA India seeks to demonstrate that all animals – including humans – are made of flesh and blood, we all feel pain and a variety of emotions, and eating meat is literally consuming the corpse of a tormented animal.
PETA India raises awareness of the extreme suffering endured by animals bred and killed for food, as depicted in its widely publicised video exposé “Glass Walls”. On factory farms, chickens are confined by the thousands to severely crowded sheds filled with ammonia fumes from accumulated waste and deprived of everything natural and important to them. These chickens, along with other animals, are crammed into slaughterhouse-bound vehicles, where many sustain broken bones, suffocate, or die in other ways. At the slaughterhouses, workers often use blunt blades to cut the throats of goats, sheep, and other animals, while fish are left to suffocate or are gutted alive on fishing boats.
According to the National Family Health Survey conducted from 2019 to 2021, 81% of the population aged 15 to 49 in Karnataka consumes meat. Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals per year immense suffering and a terrifying death. In addition, raising animals for food is a leading cause of water pollution and water and land use, and a United Nations report concluded that a global shift towards vegan eating is necessary to combat the worst effects of the climate catastrophe.
