After being alerted to a social media account, posting numerous videos depicting forced fights between pit bull dogs, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has filed a formal complaint in Ghaziabad.
Cobras are protected under Schedule I of the Wild Life (Protection) Act (WPA), 1972. The FIR was registered under sections 9 and 51 of the WPA, 1972.
Earlier in October 2022, the same elephant attacked a shopkeeper resulting in his hospitalisation with broken ribs and bones.
Bollywood icon Jackie Shroff claims PETA India's Most Beautiful Vegetarian Award 2023, emphasizing his lifelong vegetarian journey and wholesome lifestyle.
More than 47 percent of Indian respondents to a study stated they consumed plant-based food out of concern for animals.
PETA has sent an urgent letter to Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala requesting that he issue an urgent no-objection certificate and ensure safe transport for both the dog and Kaushik to India.
"Roosters used in cockfights are fitted with razor-sharp spurs and knives that tear through flesh and bone, causing agonising and fatal injuries to them as well as sometimes to handlers and spectators," says PETA Chief Advocacy Officer Khushboo Gupta.
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 India's request to Kerala on Tuesday comes within two months of the group installing a warning billboard in Delhi about the meat industry's link to the spread of bird flu
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.
