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September Update: PETA India
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Animal rights is not just an American or European issue. All the way across the world, our colleagues in PETA India are doing their part as well. Each month, The PETA Files will bring you an update on PETA India's accomplishments.
On August 13, in Hyderabad, PETA India protesters held signs reading, "Broken Wings and Legs," while a giant crippled "chicken" crossed the road in front of a KFC to protest the company's abusive treatment of chickens and urge people not to eat at KFC until the company improves their animal welfare standards.
In Delhi, on August 22, PETA India members stood outside the Livestock and Dairy Expo to protest against the cruelty inflicted on animals raised for milk and to point out that those who drink milk share responsibility for the suffering of cows and calves outside the dairy industry. They also wanted to inform the public that dairy products are linked to heart disease and certain types of cancer in human beings.
On August 27, a PETA India activist in Lucknow led a protest against the cruel and bloody leather industry, hoping to raise awareness about the horrible suffering that animals endure before they are killed and their skin is made into leather shoes, bags, and other products.
Keep up the good work, PETA India!
Posted by Carrie Ann Harris
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I love Peta India!! You have my full support here in Canada!! Go get em' guys!! And gals!!
Posted by: Carla | September 5, 2008 10:16 AM
YOU ROCK - PETA IN INDIA !! GREAT PICTURES. HOPE THEY KNOW THE U.S.A IS PROUD OF THEM ! I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF INDIA PETA, THEY HAVE ALOT OF ANIMAL RIGHTS ISSUES OVER THERE. LIKE THE CRUEL COW (LEATHER) BUSINESS. SO SAD US AMERICA'S ARE BUYING THE LEATHER .
Posted by: SASHA | September 5, 2008 11:11 AM
If anyone has been to India or understands Indian culture they will know just how important the work of PETA India is there. Congratulations to you all!
Posted by: Maureen | September 5, 2008 11:18 AM
can ido somthing for animal rights?
Posted by: chiranjeevsingh | September 5, 2008 11:43 AM
@ chiranjeevsingh.
"can ido somthing for animal rights?"
Plz join us at www.petaDishoom.com
Posted by: Niranajan | September 5, 2008 12:53 PM
PETA India always seems to do just the right thing—you've got to love compassionate people like these. To me compassion is the most noble and elevated of human emotions.
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | September 5, 2008 01:07 PM
MAHA BHARATA!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: THE MASK | September 5, 2008 01:48 PM
Peta.. I dont' get these 'little demos'.. which attract at most a gaggle or handful of 'curious onlookers'.. the whole point I feel of an animals rights organization.. is to try and get the MESSAGE out.. to the MASSES.. what goes on behind closed doors.. and yes.. really the majority have faint minimal bordering on total ignorance or inkling of the plight of so many millions of animals so badly abused and exploited by humans and their 'silent suffering'.. Peta if you're going to DEMO.. then pls I implore try and get msg out to the MASSES not little gaggle or groups of curiuos ogling passers-bys.. you have to try and achieve the ripple effect.. ie. by at least tossing a stone.. these little demos are akin to tossing a little grain of sand into the ocean.. minimal effect..
(by the way.. I applaud ALL the various activists' spare time and efforts.. their hearts def. in the right places.. ) oh.. the website is great too and keeps us 'up to date' with comings and goings on.. in the animal rights awareness world ..
I'll bet my bottom dollar that there are a whole lot of fur wearers haven't even the slightest inkling where or how their furs and animals skins even came about.. and go about their ways buying more furs in total ignorance and full blinkers on.. notwithstanding the truly die hard set in stone and black granite pitiless hearted women who are aware but still continue with their revolitng so selfish only care about themselves and only themselves and their fur loving wearing passion regardless of the terrible suffering endured by these animals each and every one behind their fur product..
these women are truly deeply deeply loathesome!!
Posted by: gem | September 5, 2008 04:40 PM
You have my full support from here in VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
Thank You For Sticking up For Animals Over There!!!
GO TEAM PETA!!!!!
Posted by: Amanda | September 5, 2008 04:49 PM
YOU GO GUYS!More and more people are helping!Thanks from the furry and feathery everywhere
Posted by: Claire Highsmith | September 5, 2008 09:36 PM
I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE PETA INDIA FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR IMPORTANT WORK EDUCATING YOUR CITIZENS!
Posted by: carolyn | September 6, 2008 01:33 AM
many Indians dont have the luxery to choose from a plethora of food, like americans, and milk and ghee is cheap and local.
Posted by: hachi | September 6, 2008 08:28 AM
I love PETA INDIA. I heartily congratulate all of them.
Posted by: Tajinder Singh | September 6, 2008 01:20 PM
go india!!it's awsome to see the world effected by peta
Posted by: christine | September 6, 2008 11:39 PM
GO PETAAAAA you rockkk !!! =)
Posted by: Isabel Correa | September 7, 2008 12:15 PM
When I was growing up in India, I was taught, 'Ahimsa' - meaning non-violence, was an essential part of Hindu culture. Almost all of my friends and colleagues, including myself were vegetarians. But with the fast food restaurants such as KFC and McDonald moving into India, it has become fashionable to be a non-vegetarian. I hope and wish with all my heart that PETA India will succeed in convincing the younger Indians that there is nothing fashionable about torturing animals.
Sandhya Devi, TX, USA
Posted by: Sandhya Devi | September 7, 2008 01:14 PM
Gem:
Thank you for your support and nice words about our website. We did want to let you know that we do our “little demos” because they do in fact reach thousands, tens of thousands, and seriously up to hundreds of thousands of people because our stories are picked up by local, national, and world media. Our demos are shown on local TV news stations, and in national print media. That’s how we reach so many folks with our message. Thanks again for your comment and continued support of PETA!
Posted by: Carrie Ann Harris | September 9, 2008 10:17 AM
I AGREE WITH CARRIE ANN HARRIS. THAT SMALL GROUP OF DEMO DID A GREAT JOB !! IT STARTS OFF SMALL AND GROWS ! AND JUST LOOK WHAT A GREAT RESPONSE IT GOT FROM ALL OF US OVER HERE IS THE U.S.A. !! IT TOUCHED MY HEART !!! I LIVE IN TEXAS AND THERE " LITTLE DEMO" REACHED ME AND INSPIRED ME ! INDIA IS A POOR COUNTRY. AND THEY SPEND THERE TIME TO HELP ANIMALS,WHEN I KNOW THEY MUST BE GOING WITHOUT ALOT OF BASIC STUFF THAT US AMERICAN'S HAVE EVERYDAY. I AN IMPRESSED AND I KNOW GOD WILL BLESS THEM FOR CARING SO MUCH FOR THE ANIMALS AND GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT THERE.{ I AM FROM SAN ANTONIO ,TEXAS}-- P.S. I LOVE HEARING ABOUT THESE SMALL GROUPS OF PEOPLE GOING OUT THERE AND SPEAKING THEIR MINDS AND SPEAKING UP AGAINST ANIMAL CRUELTY. THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT !!
Posted by: SASHA | September 9, 2008 04:50 PM
I think you guys should go to Islamabad in Pakistan next. I was driving in a village that had LIVE CHICKENS stuffed in wire cages. Literally stuffed. I also paid a visit to a bird "sanctuary" when actually the birds were in awful condition, not forgetting of course finding a BIRD'S LEG on the ground. Obviously predators can get to them.... O_o Should I explain about the goat torture shows that my cousin told me about?
Posted by: Morticon | September 11, 2008 01:30 PM
i saw a pamela anderson video. ITS BAD! I MEAN KFC IS SOO RUDE! im never eating egg again =[=[=[=[
Posted by: vaishali | October 1, 2008 06:09 AM
The Naked Truth of KFC India
The battle of PETA India against KFC will continue until KFC India agrees on PETA’s demands.
KFC which stands for “Kentucky Fried Chickens” but for PETA, it’s only and only stands for “Kentucky Fried Cruelty”. KFC raises and kills more than 850 million chickens every year for its restaurants, far more than any other chicken restaurant.
KFC cuts the beaks off breeding birds without any painkillers, and it breeds and drugs chickens to grow so large, so quickly that their legs actually collapse under their own weight. Chickens are grabbed four or five at a time by the legs and slammed into transport crates, and at the slaughterhouse many are scalded alive. When people see what’s happening to chickens for KFC restaurants, they turn away in disgust.
PETA India conducted undercover investigation before few years at one slaughterhouse owned by a major KFC supplier. At this facility, investigators found that chickens stuffed into overcrowded warehouses, birds immobilised by leg deformities caused by breeding for weight, barns littered with the diseased carcases of chickens and abuse by workers. At many KFC suppliers' abattoirs, chickens are often scalded to death in defeathering tanks. People can visit our Web site KentuckyFriedCruelty.com; see our video footage of animals if they think KFC is treating animals humanely.
Following more than five years of hard work and “PETA pressure”, majority of KFC in Canada will now significantly reduce the cruelty endured by chickens raised and slaughtered for its many hundreds of fast-food restaurants. We are using the momentum of the victory in Canada to pressure KFC in India to follow the example of their Canadian counterpart by no longer buying chicken meat from suppliers who abuse chickens. We plan to vigorously target KFC here in India.
KFC in Canada’s agreement includes a commitment to phase in the exclusively purchase of chickens from suppliers which use controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK) – the least cruel form of poultry slaughter available. This switch will end most of the immense suffering that takes place in chicken slaughterhouses., all of which has been documented time and time again by PETA affiliates’ undercover investigation. CAK painlessly puts birds “to sleep” with an inert gas mixture while the birds are still in their transport crates. Live birds have no contract with workers, which mean there will be few opportunities for workers to physically abuse birds. CAK also prevents birds from suffering from broken bones, hemorrhaging, electric shocks and other horrors which birds experience when they are slaughtered using other methods.
Even PETA has recommended a four-point plan to KFC, which people can read at KentuckyFriedCruelty.com that is approved by the word’s leading poultry scientists and would use the latest technology to eliminate the worst abuses that the birds suffer. We learned in early April 2005 that KFC has never even conducted a welfare audit on a single KFC supplier farm, despite having claimed since May 2003 that it has been doing audits. Now, the company has refused to require any actual improvement for chickens-the company continues to obfuscate, to dodge and weave, but without ever promising to actually help animals.
PETA's growing list of celebrities who support the campaign against KFC includes actor Pamela Anderson, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, Nobel Peace Prize winner His Holiness the Dalai Lama and rock legend Sir Paul McCartney with many more. Anoushka Shanker and Pandit Ravi Shanker were the first Indian Celebrities among all; they raised their voice against KFC through their letters to the KFC Executives. The letters can be seen on our site KFCCruelty.com. PETA India is now urging Indian Celebrities to join us in our Campaign against KFC for the lives of millions of innocent chickens those are killed by KFC mercilessly.
This year PETA held our Demonstrations in Chennai, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, and Bangalore in the front of KFC outlets. PETA always conduct its demonstrations peacefully like an awareness program to educate people about the Cruelty of KFC. Now PETA also motivating youngsters (Activists) that they can also join us through organizing a demo against their local KFC outlet where PETA will guide them precisely that how to organize and conduct it. PETA just want to let people know that if they’re eating chicken, they’re supporting cruelty to animals, and if they’re eating at KFC, they’re supporting a company that isn’t doing anything to eliminate the worst abuses of animals on factory farms and in slaughterhouses.
Written by:
Tajinder Singh
Posted by: Tajinder Singh | October 30, 2008 09:08 AM