After People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had asked domestic dairy giant Amul to move from dairy to vegan, Vice-Chairman Valamji Humbal has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban PETA.
According to Humbal, PETA as an NGO is conspiring to ruin the livelihoods of 10 crore people by maligning the image of India’s dairy sector.
Humbal made it very clear how Amul dairy has been one of the critical contributors to India’s GDP and now PETA is running a negative campaign that can adversely influence through ‘misinformation spread by opportunistic elements’.
As far as he was concerned such organisations were working on a conspiracy to snatch away the employment of India’s milk producers and livestocks are part of the family as per Indian culture and there can be no question of inflicting any sort of cruelty on them does not arise at all.
The top executive mentioned, “To ensure that such organisations stop their activities in India, milk producers of Gujarat urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate necessary action to impose a ban on organisations which are engaged in condemnable activity of tarnishing the image of dairy industry through misinformation campaign and then harm them by encouraging plants of multination companies producing synthetic milk.”
“We urge around 40 lakh dairy farmers associated with Amul and around 15 lakh others to write to the PM seeking a ban on PETA. We shall do the same at our levels also,” Humbal was quoted in a report by the Indian Express.
Valamji Humbal has implied that international companies who see India as a great market are maneuvering to break the self-sufficient Indian dairy industry that ensures that the country does not have to rely on imports for milk and milk-related products.
Last week, PETA had appealed to Amul to tap on the plant-based milk and food market and thereby shift away from milch animals. It must be noted that Bill Gates owns large tracts of land in the US.