Go Veg Walk

In honour of the Mahatma Gandhi's birthday and to mark World Vegetarian Day, members of WAYE and youth arm of PETA, India, petaDishoom, joined hands with hundreds of concerned citizens in Pune on 30th Sept 2008 with a vital message: Go Vegetarian!

When & Where?

Date: Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Place: College of Engineering, Shivaji Nagar, Pune

The demonstrators congregated in a field and positioned their bodies to form the words "GO VEG" after which they wore animal masks and held signs and banners emblazoned with pro-vegetarian messages. Around 400 people supported and walked in the GO VEG March. When asked about his thoughts on vegetarianism, Mr. Khurshed Batliwala, Director of WAYE, quipped, "I don't eat my pets, why do you?"

As Gandhiji said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated". And India would not want to be judged by the treatment of chickens and cows raised and killed for food. The animals are confined in filthy sheds or Tabelas, and they are denied everything that's natural and important to them. Their slaughter is crude, terrifying and often painful, and they are sometimes dismembered while they are still conscious.

Eating animals is not only bad for our health but extremely harmful for the environment. Consumption of meat and other animal products has been conclusively linked to strokes, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and some types of cancer. And a recent UN report concluded that raising animals for food causes more of the greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming than all the cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes in the world combined.

Alliances

PETADHISHOOM (Youth Wing of PETA)
Staeta Soymilk (ProSoya Foods and Staeta cherish the "Proggy Award for the Best Soya Milk Company" received in 2005)