PETA 'BIOHAZARD TEAM' DISPATCHED TO MEAT INDUSTRY CONFERENCE

For Immediate Release:

5 November 2009

Contact:

Arka Prava Bhar (0) 9011009091; Arkapravab@petaindia.org

New Delhi -- Clad in biohazard suits and holding signs reading, "Meat Kills" and "Meat Is Murder", members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India will hand out leaflets outside a meat industry conference organised by the National Meat and Poultry Processing Board. The protesters will also call on passers-by to save the planet by giving up meat:

Date:     Friday, 6 November

Time:    12 noon

Place:    Pragati Maidan, outside gate No 10, New Delhi

PETA wants the public to know that meat production devastates the environment. According to the United Nations, the meat industry generates more greenhouse gasses than all the cars, trucks, SUVs and planes in the world combined. Animal agriculture is one of the world's largest sources of carbon-dioxide emissions and is the single largest source of methane and nitrous-oxide emissions. It also produces many tonnes of manure and other waste products each year, polluting the air, water and soil.

When animals are raised in close confinement -- as most animals used by the meat industry are -- germs pass quickly from one animal to the next. Sick animals -- even those near death -- are slaughtered, and their flesh is processed and passed on to consumers, regardless of the animals' condition.

"We've known for some time that meat consumption is linked to heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer", says PETA's Arkaprava Bhar. "But now we also know that meat production is destroying the planet."

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