‘Every Animal Is Someone’: Animals Implore Public to Live Vegan in PETA India’s ‘World Day for the End of Speciesism’ Campaign
To mark World Day for the End of Speciesism (31 August), PETA India shared a sky-high message in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune as well as Chicalim (Goa) appealing to the public to leave animals off their plates, courtesy of new billboards that showed images of animals, including a chicken, goat, fish, buffalo, and pig and read, “Every Animal Is Someone.” PETA India’s campaign aims to denounce speciesism, the misguided human-supremacist belief that other species are inferior to our own and that it’s acceptable to exploit them.
As PETA India reveals in its video exposé “Glass Walls”, cows and buffaloes are crammed into vehicles in such large numbers that their bones often break before they’re dragged off to a 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. In the egg industry, chickens are kept in filthy cages so small they can’t spread a single wing, and newborn male chicks are ground up, burned, or buried alive since they cannot lay eggs, along with other unwanted chicks. Male calves in the dairy industry are commonly abandoned, left to starve, or killed since they cannot produce milk.
Mumbai – New Link Road, Sahakar Nagar, Azad Nagar, Andheri West.
Goa – Airport Road, Chicalim, Bagmalo
Hyderabad – Bhoiguda Road, Railway Officer Colony, Botiguda, Bhoiguda, Secunderabad
Pune – Air Force Area, Sakore Nagar, Viman Nagar
Kolkata – After the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Road junction from Maa Flyover
New Delhi – Vedant Desika Mandir Marg, at Jawaharlal Nehru University Old Campus, Munirka
