‘Mermaid’ Shows Her Love for Fish Ahead of World Ocean Day

For Immediate Release:

06 June 2023

Contact:

Atharva Deshmukh; [email protected]

Hiraj Laljani; [email protected]

PETA India’s World Ocean Day Display Will Ask Residents to Make Fish Their Friends, Not Food, by Going Vegan

Bengaluru – In advance of World Ocean Day (8 June), a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India staffer will pose as a mermaid in Bengaluru on Wednesday to urge passers-by to consider fish friends and eat vegan.

Where:             World War Memorial, 5 Brigade Road, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025

When:             Wednesday, 7 June, 11 am sharp

“Fish are playful, intelligent individuals who have the capacity to feel pain and don’t want to die any more than you or I do,” says PETA India Campaigns Coordinator Atharva Deshmukh. “If you love animals, the best thing you can do is not eat them.”

PETA India notes that scientific studies confirm what marine biologists have been saying for years: fish feel pain, share knowledge, have long memories, and have cultural traditions. Some woo potential partners by creating intricate works of art in the sand on the ocean floor. Yet more fish are killed for food each year than all other animals combined. They’re impaled, crushed, suffocated, or cut open and gutted – often while they’re fully conscious.

Each year, the fishing industry also kills vast numbers of non-target animals, including 720,000 seabirds, 300,000 whales and dolphins, 345,000 seals and sea lions, and 100 million sharks and rays.

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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