MUMBAI: On the event of Gandhi Jayanti (October 2), Folks for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA) India has written to the state chief minister, Eknath Shinde, requesting that South Mumbai’s Mutton Avenue be renamed “Ahimsa Marg” as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was a vegetarian.
Gandhi Jayanti is globally acknowledged because the Worldwide Day of Non-Violence.Within the letter, PETA India notes that the road’s title has a colonial previous and is related to the meat commerce, which contradicts Gandhi’s values of non-violence and vegetarianism.
“Renaming Mutton Avenue to ‘Ahimsa Marg’ could be a beautiful tribute to Gandhiji’s reminiscence and would remind the general public to respect all animals within the coronary heart of Mumbai,” mentioned PETA India Supervisor of Vegan Tasks, Dr. Kiran Ahuja. She added, “PETA India encourages everybody to have a good time Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy every day by selecting wholesome and scrumptious plant-based meals.”
A piece of Mutton Avenue can be colloquially generally known as `Chor Bazaar,’ as it’s rumored that stolen items are bought right here. Of their letter, PETA India additionally urged that maybe vegan meals hawkers and different vegan companies might be established on Ahimsa Marg, encouraging each vacationers and locals to frequent the world.
The letter quotes Mahatma Gandhi, who as soon as mentioned, “To my thoughts, the lifetime of a lamb is not any much less valuable than that of a human being. I maintain that the extra helpless a creature, the extra entitled it’s to safety by man from the cruelty of man.”
PETA India additional identified that killing animals for meat entails large-scale violence. Chickens are sometimes shackled the other way up earlier than their throats are slit, goats are forcefully pinned down whereas their throats are lower with knives, and cows and buffaloes are crammed into autos in such massive numbers that their bones typically break earlier than they’re dragged to slaughterhouses.
Pigs are stabbed within the coronary heart as they scream, and on fishing boats, fish suffocate or are lower open whereas nonetheless alive.
Moreover, consuming meat and different animal-derived meals has been linked to coronary heart illness, strokes, diabetes, most cancers, and weight problems.
The rearing and killing of animals for meals have additionally been linked to a large number of zoonotic illnesses like chicken flu and swine flu. A United Nations report has concluded {that a} international shift in direction of vegan consuming is important to fight the worst results of the local weather disaster.
