Recently on December 10, it was International Animal Rights Day, and Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas star Sahher Bambba encouraged fans to join her in being vegan in a new video shared by the star on her social media pages. In the video, Sahher described cruelty to calves for milk and urged fans to order a free vegan starter kit from PETA India’s website.
Bambba, who made her mark in Bollywood, decided to go vegan in 2019 and immediately called it one of the best decisions she’s ever made.
“I’ve gone vegan, which means I don’t consume any products of slaughter or anything stolen from animals. Did you know that because male calves cannot produce milk, they’re often abandoned, left to starve, or sent to be killed so that humans can take the milk meant for them?” says Bambba in the video. “Going vegan means rejecting this cruelty to calves. Inspired? Order your free vegan starter kit from my friends at PETAIndia.com today.”
Everyone who follows Bambba’s lead and goes vegan dramatically reduces their carbon footprint: according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, animal agriculture is responsible for nearly a fifth of human-induced greenhouse-gas emissions. Going vegan also helps combat the spread of deadly viruses: filthy factory farms and live-animal markets crammed full of stressed animals are breeding grounds for diseases like bird flu and swine flu.
And of course, vegan meals help animals. The dairy industry supports the beef and leather industries, which are able to exist in India largely because the dairy sector supplies them with spent and unwanted animals. Cows and buffaloes are crammed into vehicles in such large numbers that their bones often break before they’re dragged off to the slaughterhouse. Meanwhile, chickens used for eggs are kept in cages so small they cannot even spread their wings, pigs are stabbed in the heart as they scream, and on the decks of fishing boats, fish suffocate or are cut open while they’re still alive.
Bambba joins Kartik Aaryan, Anushka Sharma, Shahid Kapoor, Hema Malini, R Madhavan, and many other celebrities who’ve teamed up with PETA India to promote healthy, humane meat-free meals.
PETA India, whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
