Alicia Silverstone and PETA India Donate 1,000 Vegan Meals

By Kanishka Vijay

As COVID-19 continues to spread, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has teamed up with Hollywood actor Alicia Silverstone to provide underprivileged relatives of patients at BYL Nair Ch. Hospital with 1,000 vegan meals. The giveaway of healthy, humane, and nutritious vegan meals has been coordinated through the Akshaya Chaitanya Foundation, which serves vulnerable families in Mumbai public hospitals and slums.

Vegan eating can help prevent conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments that increase the risk of death from COVID-19. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world largest organisation of food and nutrition professionals, states, Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity.

 
The distribution of vegan meals is also timely, as the current pandemic is widely believed to have originated in a live-animal market. Similarly, SARS, bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, HIV, and numerous other diseases are believed to have first spread to humans from animals at live-animal markets, on factory farms, or during slaughter.

A vegan diet is a kind diet, and I am happy to work with PETA India to get these healthy, immune-boosting vegan meals to families in need during this awful pandemic, says Silverstone