‘Meat = Heat … Go Vegan!’ Warns PETA India as Temperature Continues to Soar
As a record-breaking heatwave continues to sweep across the country, causing droughts and wildfires and lining up 2024 to be the hottest year on record, PETA India’s new sky-high appeal is calling out the culprit – a global climate catastrophe fuelled by animal agriculture. In Amritsar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Lucknow, and Nagpur, the temperature has exceeded 45 degrees.
Sector 52, Kajheri Village, Chandigarh
VR Ambarsar, at the intersection of Basant and White avenues, Amritsar
near Ispat Bhavan on Lodhi Road, when travelling from the Golf Links junction towards India Habitat Centre/Jor Bagh, Delhi
Ram Niwas Garden, near Masala Chowk, Kailash Puri, Adarsh Nagar, Jaipur
Aishbagh Flyover, near Aishbagh Eidgah, Rajendra Nagar, Lucknow
Chatrapati Square, Wardha Road, Chhatrapati Nagar, Nagpur
The United Nations states that animal agriculture is responsible for nearly a fifth of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions and that raising animals for food is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”. The production of meat and dairy, including curd and cheese, accounts for about 60% of all food-related greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have discovered that going vegan is the single most effective thing anyone can do to help save the planet. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that not consuming meat and dairy can reduce an individual’s carbon footprint from food by up to 73% and that a global switch to vegan eating could save up to 8 million human lives by 2050 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two-thirds.
Eating vegan spares animals immense suffering, including in the dairy industry, in which calves are torn away from their beloved mothers so that the milk meant for them can be sold to humans – and such cruelty is the norm, even in India. Globally, an estimated 92.2 billion land animals alone are slaughtered every year, and most of them are raised in severe confinement. Chickens exploited for their eggs are kept in cages so small they can’t spread their wings, male piglets are castrated without painkillers, and fish are yanked out of the water and crushed, suffocated, or cut open and gutted, all while they’re still conscious.
