Just in time for World Food Day on October 16, a costumed People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India ‘carrot’ will take to the streets of Bhopal with free, delicious vegan meals as well as a reminder that feeding the world can be as easy as going vegan.
The ‘carrot’ — holding a sign that reads, ‘End World Hunger. Go Vegan’ – will let passers-by know why raising animals for meat is an inefficient use of land and crops, which could instead be used to grow food that would directly feed many more people.
The demonstration would be at 1100 quarters, in front of Hanuman temple on Thursday at 12 pm.
“The best way to ensure that no one on Earth ever goes hungry is to choose healthy, tasty vegan meals,” says PETA India Nutritionist Bhuvaneshwari Gupta.
“Each of us has the chance to do our part to end world hunger every time we sit down to eat, and that's why PETA is encouraging caring people to choose meals that require just a fraction of the resources that meat and dairy foods use,” she added.
As PETA India, whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to eat", points out, with the global population of humans over 7 billion — more than a billion of whom currently go hungry — the only way to produce enough food is, according to the Worldwatch Institute, "to cut back sharply on meat consumption, because conversion of grazing land to food crops will increase the amount of food produced".