At the height of concern of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent four activists to Sahar International Airport in India to urge people to stop eating meat in order to prevent future disease outbreaks (see the photo to the right that ran in the Indian newspaper, The Hindu).
PETA’s Bijal Vachharajani told Mumbai Newsline,
In response to news reports that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic now spreading across the globe probably originated on a pig farm, PETA is offering ?simple but effective? advice about how to prevent this and other life-threatening diseases like heart attacks and cancer: Leave the animals alone and stop eating meat.
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No more meat means no more factory farms and no more outbreaks of diseases spread by intensively-raised animals.
Source:
No pigs for PETA, but at the airport, nobody cares. Mumbai Newsline, April 23, 2003.