AR-News: (UK) HOLY COW! PETA TAKES INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO SUPREME COURT

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HOLY COW! PETA TAKES INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO SUPREME COURT, PT RAVI SHANKAR 
ANNOUNCES
UK Among Top Importers of Leather From Criminally Abused Animals
For Immediate Release:
1 April 2004
Contact:
Poorva Joshipura 0207 357 9229 Ext 229 
Mumbai – At a press conference today – almost four years after Indian Prime 
Minister Vajpayee sent a directive to India’s state governments to enforce 
animal-protection laws – multiple Grammy Award-winner Pt Ravi Shankar announced 
his support for PETA India’s initiative to file a case in the Supreme Court 
versus the Indian government for failing to alleviate the suffering of animals 
used for leather and meat. Pt Ravi Shankar has served as India’s cultural 
ambassador for many years and, in 1999, received the Bharath Rathna, India’s highest 
civilian honour.
PETA India has gathered evidence of widespread violations of India’s 1960 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, including severe cruelty to Indian cattle, 
buffalo, goats and sheep, as well as unhygienic conditions in Indian 
meat-processing facilities. This evidence shows cows’ and other animals’ being crowded 
onto trucks in such high numbers that many become severely injured or die en 
route, and later, at most abattoirs, being dragged and cut open, often with 
dirty, blunt knives on floors covered in faeces, blood, guts and urine, some 
animals being skinned and dismembered while still conscious.




full story:

http://www.petauk.org/newsnew/NewsItem.asp?id=2877 
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