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Mumbai, India – To drag again the curtain on environmental hurt wrought by the meat trade, together with losing water in India, which experiences drought, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk lathered up in Mumbai at this time, having a shower in the course of a busy a part of the town so as to ship the message that one of the best factor individuals can do to avoid wasting water and cease contributing to the worldwide local weather disaster is to go vegan. She protected her modesty with a bathe curtain proclaiming, “1 Rooster Meal = 30 Showers. Go Vegan to Finish World Drought!” Pictures of the scene can be found right here.
“Fashionable meat and dairy manufacturing requires as much as 50 instances extra water than the manufacturing of plant meals, like legumes, greens, and grains,” explains Newkirk. “PETA is urging everybody to avoid wasting animals’ lives and treasured assets by selecting vegan meals—earlier than life and ecology as we all know it go down the drain.”
By some estimates, animal agriculture is liable for extra greenhouse fuel emissions than all of the world’s transportation techniques mixed. And whereas one in 4 individuals across the globe lacks entry to protected consuming water, the manufacturing of animal-derived meals makes use of a third of the world’s freshwater assets—and a 3rd of the world’s cropland. This cropland could possibly be used to feed hungry people however is as a substitute used to develop meals for animals intentionally bred and raised for use and killed. Going vegan saves the lives of almost 200 animals a yr.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly that, “animals are usually not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.