World Environment Day Prompts ‘Go Vegan or We All Die’ Warning From PETA India.
Panaji – In honour of World Environment Day (5 June), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India is placing billboards in Goa and other cities across the country with a stark message about what scientists say is the single most effective thing individuals can do to save the planet: go vegan.
The billboard in Goa is located near Goa Medical College, Bambolim.
“Our planet is in danger because the meat, egg, and dairy industries bulldoze precious forests to make way for the animals they use and kill and the crops to feed them while spewing greenhouse gasses that worsen the climate catastrophe,” says PETA India Manager of Vegan Projects Dr Kiran Ahuja. “PETA India’s billboard urges everyone to save animals and the Earth by embracing vegan eating.”
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. 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.
