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PETA to ‘barbecue’ dog to create awareness

The shocking visual, using a dog prop, will send out the message that all animals are made of flesh, blood, and bone and that every body has the same capacity to feel pain and a variety of emotions.

PETA asks PM to declare 2 Oct as National meat-free day

PETA India notes in its letter that ditching meat also reduces the risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, helps fight climate change by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions; and even helps prevent future pandemics. COVID-19 is largely believed by experts to have stemmed or spread from a live-animal meat market, and SARS, swine flu, and bird flu have also been linked to confining and killing animals for food.

When a distraction became activism

When the Taliban controlled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, they had imposed the wearing of the burqa, requirement of a male ‘guardian’ in public spheres, prohibition to work, interdiction to pursue higher education, risk of sexual violence, and forced marriages of young girls to the Taliban fighters