New Delhi: As the world continues to experience the deadly effects of COVID-19, PETA India has urged everyone to help stop another pandemic saying “India: It’s Time to Move Away From Meat”.

In a statement, the animal rights organisation said it is overwhelmingly believed that coronavirus has jumped the species barrier from infected animals to humans at a live-animal market in China.

“The PETA India is urging everyone to help stop another pandemic by running ads in newspapers that proclaim ‘India: It’s Time to Move Away From Meat’,” it said on Friday.

Filthy markets

The advertisement points out that India’s live-animal markets, factory farms, and slaughterhouses are as filthy as China’s “wet markets”, their floors covered with blood, urine, faeces, and offal and that no one needs to eat meat.

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