Chennai: Custom officials seize live spiders in parcel sent from Poland
Chennai: Custom officials seize live spiders in parcel sent from Poland
Custom officials at Chennai international airport seized a postal parcel containing live spiders. The parcel had arrived from Poland at Foreign Post Office.
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Custom officials found 107 live spiders in a postal parcel from Poland. (Photo: Pramod Madhav)
Based on a tip, Chennai Air Customs intercepted a postal parcel which arrived from Poland at Foreign Post Office on suspicion of containing some arthropod or invertebrate species. The parcel was addressed to a person based in Arupukotai in Tamil Nadu.
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CHENNAI: Some members of parliament (MP) from across party lines have pledged to eat vegan on World Environment Day, June 5, forgoing meat, dairy, and other animal-derived foods.
The participating MPs are Maneka Gandhi, MP from Pilibhit; Shafiqur Rahman Barq, MP from Sambhal; Bellana Chandra Sekhar, MP from Vizianagaram; Ajay Bhatt, MP from Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar; Anuradha Chinta, MP from Amalapuram; Sunita Duggal, MP from Sirsa; Vijay Hansdak, MP from Rajmahal; and Kaushal Kishore, MP from Mohan Lalganj.
“I’m delighted to join PETA India’s green initiative by eating vegan on World Environment Day. Just by eating more plants over animal-derived foods, we can fight climate change and other environmental effects with simple diet change,” says MP Anuradha Chinta.
by S Murlidharan - Jun 1, 2021 02:19 PM
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People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India have urged AMUL to switch to the production of vegan milk.
Would PETA ask Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to stop selling burgers stuffed with fried animal flesh and instead stuff
aaloo tikki?
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India have urged AMUL, Indiaâs foremost, pioneering producer cooperative society that has changed the lives of millions of dairy farmers, 70 per cent of them landless, to switch to the production of plant-based milk, aka vegan milk.
Would PETA, which apparently has infinite love for bovines in mind, kindly explain how milking from the udders of cows and buffalos is unethical.
In a letter to Amul Managing Director R S Sodhi, PETA said the dairy cooperative society should get benefitted from the booming vegan food and milk market