To honour Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday and mark World Vegetarian Day, members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s youth arm, petaDishoom, will join with the World Alliance for Youth Empowerment (WAYE), which is the youth arm of H H Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living and ProSoya Foods, as well as hundreds of concerned citizens in Pune on Tuesday with a vital message: go vegetarian! The demonstrators will congregate in a field and position their bodies to form the words “Go Veg”. Then, wearing animal masks and holding signs and banners emblazoned with pro-vegetarian messages, they will march towards Sambhaji Park on Junglee Maharaja Road. petaDishoom has tied up with College Of Engineering Pune’s Technical Fest, Mindspark 2008 for the March for Animals.

The makers of Staeta soya milk – a healthy and humane alternative to cows’ milk, which is often adulterated and cruelly obtained – will provide soya milk to the participants:

Date: Tuesday, 30 September

Time: 12 noon

Place: Boys Hostel, College of Engineering, Pune, Shivaji Nagar

As Gandhiji said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated”. Today, India would not want to be judged by the treatment of chickens and cows raised and killed for food. The animals are confined to filthy sheds, or tabelas, and they are denied everything which is 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 also bad for your health and 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.

PETA and ProSoya Foods, the makers of Staeta soya milk, have had a long and happy partnership. When the company began marketing Staeta soya milk in 2004 and sought vegans’ support, PETA was the first vegan organisation to try out the product. PETA endorsed Staeta’s superior taste and nutrition value and urged its members to give the product their wholehearted support.

In 2005, ProSoya Foods and Staeta won PETA’s Proggy Award for the Best Soya Milk Company. Both PETA and Staeta have organised several road shows across India to spread awareness of animal suffering and the availability of soya milk as a dairy alternative.

“[Soya milk] is more than an issue of nutrition in a country where more than 70 per cent of people cannot digest lactose, the milk sugar present in dairy milk and its products”, says N Jagirdar, ProSoya Foods’ vice president of marketing. “There is also the larger issue of animal welfare and of assisting people to inflict no harm to our fellow creatures who inhabit this Earth with us. That’s why ProSoya and PETA are working together to raise awareness in peoplefor aharmonious co-existence with animals. Soymilk is a healthy and nutritious alternative to dairy milk to other seekers of good health”

As the youth branch of The Art of Living Foundation, WAYE states that its mission is to work “towards empowering young people physically, spiritually, economically and socially for enabling their participation and leadership towards taking active responsibilities to work towards contemporary issues and challenges facing their communities and societies at large”. When asked his thoughts on vegetarianism, Khurshed Batliwala, director of WAYE, quipped, “I don’t eat my pets – why do you?”

“Gandhiji would be saddened to see how the millions of animals who are killed for food are treated in our country, and the simplest and easiest formula to Gandhigiri is to give up eating animals”, says Simran Kodesia, PETA India’s youth marketing coordinator. “It’s a fact: the best thing you can do for your health, animals and the Earth is to go vegetarian.”

PETA’s campaign against fur has been very aggressive and we completely want fur out of the industry due to the cruelty done to animals in fur producing industry.

Latest activist for PETA is Aya sugimoto going naked against the fur industry.

sugimoto goes naked

Dozens of university campuses across America deserve a resounding “F” from animals for the dark secret they’re hiding behind campus walls. These schools house laboratories where animals are subjected to painful and outdated tests—often funded with your tax dollars. I will tell you in a moment exactly what we are doing to stop this mess, but first let me explain.

If you donate to PETA today for our online “Stop Animal Testing” Challenge, your gift will be doubled, and you will help us teach universities that they must stop torturing and killing animals. For every dollar we raise from supporters like you, the donations will be doubled, up to $250,000, to help animals in laboratories!

Those resources will help PETA save more animals on campuses than ever before. Already, we’ve won crucial victories for animals at the University of Washington, the University of Connecticut, and other places. Our work is leading to federal fines, the revocation of research grants, the suspension of cruel experiments, and public outcry. No one else is doing so much in so many different ways to help these animals!

While we’ve accomplished much, millions of individual dogs, monkeys, mice, rabbits, and other animals are still suffering in university laboratories. Won’t you please help us attack these experiments by making a gift to PETA today to have it matched dollar-for-dollar?

To show you the lifesaving difference your support makes, I want to update you on our Columbia University campaign. Some time ago, PETA was contacted by Dr. Catherine Dell’Orto, a veterinarian who worked in a laboratory at Columbia and was horrified to witness the “cruel and negligent” treatment of animals. Her accounts were sickening and enraging:
“What I saw at Columbia still gives me nightmares. I saw baboons whose left eyes had been cut out—so that major blood vessels could be clamped off through the empty sockets to induce strokes—and who had collapsed in their cages, unable to lift their heads, eat, or drink after this horrendous surgery. They were left in these dire conditions without any painkillers ?. In another experiment, in which baboon fetuses are infused with nicotine, I saw a pregnant baboon who had lost 40 percent of her bodyweight. It was a tragic sight, and resulted from nothing short of intentional neglect, as her condition had been documented on her chart for weeks.”

Dr. Dell’Orto tried to improve the conditions in Columbia’s laboratory but was stonewalled by university officials. Frustrated, she turned to PETA for help. Our investigators collected video footage and other documentation of the abuses in the laboratory, and PETA filed federal complaints. We held a news conference outside Columbia’s gates and launched a vigorous campaign against the university’s cruel primate experiments.

Thanks to PETA’s hard work, the stroke experiments on baboons were canceled. Dr. Dell’Orto’s supervisor, who had allowed the abuses to go unchecked, was fired. The U.S. government then cited and fined Columbia for violations of the Animal Welfare Act. Columbia also had to create a full-time position to ensure that the animals in its laboratories receive environmental enrichment to ease the misery of life in a cage.

Dear vijay,

As I write to you, countless dogs, cats, mice, rabbits, and other animals are suffering in outdated and unnecessary animal tests. This year alone, more than 100 million individual animals in North America will be killed in these cruel tests.

Since our founding nearly 30 years ago, PETA has made groundbreaking progress in our fight to stop all animal tests. With your help today, we can accomplish twice as much for those suffering behind the closed doors of laboratories. Thanks to a group of generous PETA donors, online donations received through our special “Stop Animal Testing” Challenge over the next month, up to a maximum of $250,000, will be matched dollar for dollar!

People of conscience have always opposed needless and cruel experiments on animals, but thanks to PETA’s hard work and the dedication of our supporters, animal testing has been laid bare as junk science—of no benefit to anyone except the profiteers who make money from it.

When you give during the “Stop Animal Testing” Challenge, your donation will be worth twice as much to PETA and the animals we are working tirelessly to save.

By donating today to have your gift and impact doubled, you will help answer the cries of the millions of individual animals killed in North American laboratories every year, including the following animals:
Dogs who are poisoned by toxic pesticides.
Mice who are put in water chambers and forced to swim until they drown from exhaustion.
Rabbits who have chemicals poured into their eyes.
Pigs who are shot and burned by the U.S. Army for medical trainings.
Monkeys who have metal screws drilled into their skulls.
These experiments are not only cruel but also unreliable, dangerous, and bad science. We know that non-animal tests are less expensive and that they are better at protecting human health. The U.S. government’s own scientific advisory board, the National Academy of Sciences, has concluded that many animal tests are useless and should largely be replaced by superior non-animal test methods. But even with that recommendation, animal testing continues, and animals whose minds and bodies are being shattered in laboratories desperately need our help.

PETA—and supporters like you—are often the only hope for these helpless animals. Our undercover investigations into vivisection facilities have exposed their horrors for public scrutiny. Our negotiations with corporations like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have spurred them to adopt cruelty-free policies and practices and compelled hundreds of others to give up animal testing forever. Our whistleblower program and our shareholder activism are also helping to hold corporate animal abusers accountable and save animals’ lives.

But as long as any company, university, or government blinds, poisons, maims, tortures, and kills animals, our job isn’t done. We urgently need your support to keep this fight going strong.

According to Peta2.com

Nine Inch Nails (NIN) has teamed up with peta2–PETA’s youth arm and one of NIN frontman Trent Reznor’s favorite charities–to give away five autographed limited-edition digipaks of the band’s latest release, The Slip.

There are only 250,000 copies of the digipaks in existence. Each one contains a CD, a DVD with footage of the band rehearsing tracks from the album, a 24-page booklet, and an exclusive sticker pack. The debut single from the album, “Discipline,” marks NIN’s sixth consecutive top 10 single on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks list.

A longtime supporter of peta2, Reznor previously narrated a video exposé about China’s dog- and cat-fur trade. “Every year, millions of cats and dogs are killed for their fur,” says Reznor. The animals’ “weakened bodies are bludgeoned, hanged, bled, or strangled with wire nooses to kill them.” The video, which was sent to fashion designers who still use fur, can be viewed at peta2.com. Visitors to the site can sign up until October 10 for a chance to win The Slip digipaks.

NIN joins an ever-growing list of musicians–including AFI’s Davey Havok, Peaches, Pink, Cobra Starship, The Color Fred, and Fall Out Boy–who have teamed up with PETA to inspire kids to challenge outdated and cruel attitudes about animals. Also featured on peta2.com are celebrity interviews, bulletin boards, merchandise, downloadable screensavers, and chances to win prizes such as free concert tickets, CDs, and more.

“This morning, PETA filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) calling for an investigation into Bucknell University’s cruel and deadly sex-related experiments on female hamsters. A former Bucknell student contacted PETA about the studies, which have been going on for nearly 30 years. PETA first expressed its concern about the experiments to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences but has received little more than a form reply.

According to the USDA complaint, physiological psychology professor Owen Floody cuts holes in the skulls of female hamsters, damages their brains, and then observes the effects on the hamsters’ sexual behavior when students in his class manually stimulate the animals or expose them to male hamsters. Hamsters are provided with absolutely no painkillers after the experiments, even though research shows that there is significant pain and discomfort following these procedures. At the conclusion of the experiment, the hamsters are killed and their brains are dissected.

PETA has posted an action alert on its popular Web site asking visitors to contact Bucknell University provost Sue Conway and ask that the hamster experiments be replaced with humane, non-animal teaching methods that are being used in physiological psychology courses at other universities.

“Floody’s sexual experiments on hamsters are more examples of cruel, wasteful, outdated science,” says PETA Director of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo. “Three decades of needlessly tormenting and killing hamsters must come to an end right now.”"

Warning Graphic video – extreme abuse to humble pigs.

Kareena kapoor one of indian leading actress and a dream girl for many indian men has explained that her beauty is because she is a Vegan. Kareena became a vegetarian in 2006 and from then on she has added more glamour to her beauty.

Kareena was 2007 cutest vegan of the year according to our online poll. PETA dishoom the youth division of PETA conducts online poll every for the cutest vegeterian living. She won the price along with Madhavan a famour film actor.

According to Kareena:

“Apart from doing yoga to keep myself fit, I am a pure vegetarian. I don’t eat meat and that has helped me a lot to keep fit. I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that’s the best way for me at least, “I drink a lot of water for my skin. And yes, my mom is beautiful, so it is also my parents who have gifted me with beautiful skin,”

kareena the peta girl

Madhavan for PETA:

Actor madhavan posing for peta ecard:

peta madhavan

In country like India its not difficult to get vegan food but some high level places tend to push people into Non-Veg food. Here are some recommendations straight from the mouth of PETA to maintain Vegan food:

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Costa Coffee: One of the many “perks” of this coffee house is the fact that their dizzying array of coffees can be turned vegan for only 20 rupees, including the English toffee cappuccino or chocolaty mocha. Ooooo so yum !

Café Coffee Day: Take your taste buds on a trip to Ireland with Café Coffee Day’s completely vegan, completely green “Irish coffee”. If you are looking to cool down, try their “lemon demon” or strawberry-flavoured iced tea.

McDonald’s: Crispy French fries smothered in ketchup, a vegan burger (without mayo or cheese but with plenty of chilli sauce), and an ice-cold Coke. Need we say more?
Subway: Fresh veggies loaded onto freshly baked wheat bread – with tangy chilli sauce, spicy mustard and must-have mint sauce – coupled with lemon iced tea makes for an extra delicious, extra healthy meal.
And don’t forget to tell us your favorite places to grab a vegan bit in the comments.”

Believe it or not there exists a site which claims to sell 5 months old tiger cubs to willing customers. This is an absolute stunning news.

According to the website:

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Buy a Tiger online? NOW it’s possible

Our stores provide you the most original pets EVER!

It was a dream until yesterday, now it’s true. Directly from our India breedings, we give you the possibility to buy a tiger ONLINE and without any trouble.
Tiger is probably the strongest feline predator on earth, but you will discover that it can be a lovely pet as well, loyal, friendly and TOTALLY HARMLESS.
We have been shipping tigers worldwide since 1984, giving our lucky customers the chance to own the most fashionable animal in earth.
We ship the tigers via sea everywhere in the world, .
Obviously, a tiger isn’t an animal for everyone. This is for true nature lovers and purists, and it comes 5 months old, already trained to be nice with its owner, to eat meat and respond to basilar voice orders.

We’ll send you the breeding manual together with your little tiger, that will let you know EVERYTHING about this marvellous animal, his diet, training and health.

Obviously, you will need much more information before you purchase a Tiger and make a reservation. You can mail us with all of your questions, we’ll send back as soon as possible.

The full Tiger Pack costs 13400$ and includes:

• a 5 months old female tiger
• The original HELLO TIGER guide
• An IVORY collar (ext. value: $1200)
• Three tiger toys (ext. value: $160)

We only accept money orders and personal U.S. Checks.
Mail us for tigers lists and reservations.

Thank You Very Much for your interest. ROARRR!”

This can be a scam or just a kid playing to claim that they sell tiger cubs it just sounds too weird. We at PETA India have already notified the government about this suspicious website. This website doesn’t have any contact numbers or physical addresses. It just have a email ID which requests to contact them for further info. I have already emailed them and waiting for their reply. Lets see how big of a scam is this. If they are really selling tigers and that too from Indian soil we will be the first one to stop them. Tigers are protected in INDIA under Schedule I of the wildlife Protection Act, 1972″.Anyone breeding tigers in captivity are subject to vigorous imprisonment. If you any one have more information on this please notify us or our head office through www.peta.org