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'Pugs Struggle to Breathe. Don't Buy Them!' demonstration for @officialPETAIndia

Fri, 15 Sept 2023 00:00:00 UTC

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On September 14, 2023, PETA India held a demonstration of "Pugs Struggle to Breathe. Don't Buy Them!" And here is the soundbite I gave.

Often sought after cute-looking short-legged or flat-faced dog breeds have their appearance through selective breeding. Animal breeders reduce animals to baby-making machines.

Mother dogs are forcefully impregnated, their babies stolen from them, and sold off, year after year. And once you can't exploit the mother further, she is thrown away, and discarded.

Breeders do it because of the demands of people who buy animals to love them. Question is, "Why do we buy someone whom we are going to love?" Lovers don't trade lovers.

Pause and ponder, where did these animals that you buy come from? What happened to their mother and father and siblings? What makes it okay to be trading beings?

If you want to look after someone, there is an option to adopt, rather than purchasing them. When you adopt, instead of shopping for these animals, your actions indicate that you won't be supporting trading beings, and that you will not fund raping of animals.

The other advantage of adopting is, that when you adopt a community animal, their quality of life becomes easy.

Put yourself in the position of a street dog. Where you never know when you would get the next meal, or even a place to stay the night, and things get worse when it rains. You never know who will run over you, or throw stones at you. Noone would want to live a life of a street dog, because we fundamentally understand, their quality of life is bad. And our actions to scare them off, or our actions to stop others from hurting them only makes it worse.

These community animals did not ask to be born in these pathetic conditions, and by adopting them, instead of paying a breeder to bring them into existence, one life isn't forcefully coming into existence, and those who are already here, can be looked after and cared for.

If your genuine reason, is to look after, care for, and provide for an animal, it shouldn't be hard to find animals in need.

Don't put a price on someone's life. Don't pay for trading beings. Don't support the breeding industry. Don't think animals are commodities. Adopt. Don't Shop.

"Know Thy Enemy": NARD 16 Animal Liberation speech

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Description On June 13, in Bangalore, we observed the National Animal Rights Day (NARD 16), where I spoke about the various barriers to animal liberation, including, but not limited to: Zionism, casteism, classism, patriarchy, corporate loot, colonisation, imperialism, suppression of workers’ rights, environmental destruction, land-grabbing, and deforestation. I spoke how boycotts isn't enough to achieve animal liberation, because humans oppress non-human animals in ways other than exploitation. In an anthropocentric world, human concerns concern non-humans too. This is the politics we are not talking about as animal liberationists and for the sake of justice, we must not ignore it.

Recommended reading You can read all about Blue Cross of India hijacking NARD 15 Chennai here: Why I Almost Boycotted NARD 15 Chennai?

Acknowledgements The thumbnail was photographed by Sudharni and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The video was recorded by Rahul Ravihal and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Subtitles track(s) for this video are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

"We’ve Failed the Animals": NARD 15 speech

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

On June 1 (in Bangalore) and on June 8 in Chennai, we observed the National Animal Rights Day (NARD 15), where I spoke about how as a movement, we individuals as well as a collective group keep on failing the victims, and how we should stop aligning with the oppressors to fight against oppression.

Additionally, I was going to boycott the NARD 15 Chennai. You can read all about it here: Why I Almost Boycotted NARD 15 Chennai?

Direct Action inside a KFC

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 00:00:00 UTC

On August 14, 2023, we visited KFC, for disruptive activism, here is how it went.

Marriott's Crimes Neither Start Nor End With Down: Marriott down with the down protest, Bangalore

Sat, 05 Sept 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Description On August 22, in Bangalore, animal rights activists "protested" against "Marriott", where I spoke about the numerous ways Marriott oppresses the non-human animals, be it by stealing their feathers, their eggs, mutilating their bodies, looting their milk, extracting physical labour out of them, blocking their migrations, destruction of environment or even displacing them. And while we criticise Marriott for these various actions, what we must not forget is: neither asking for the welfarist demands of cage-free eggs, nor just eradicating down feathers from their pillows would be enough for liberation. From displacing indigenous people to screwing with workers to failing to have a half-decent anti-sexual harassment policy – Marriott cares for none of them, all they care about, are their profits, and such industries need to be burnt to the ground for total liberation.

Acknowledgements

The video of the speech was recorded by Rahul Ravihal and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The video of the chants was recorded by Sunil Sathyanarayanan and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Subtitles track(s) for this video are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.