People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has asked Amul to make a decision to switch to producing vegan milk.
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.
“We would again like to encourage Amul to benefit from the booming vegan food and milk market, instead of wasting resources trying to fight the demand for plant-based products that is only growing. Other companies are responding to market changes, and Amul can too,” PETA India said.
Sodhi, while replying to the statement in a tweet said, don’t you know dairy farmers are mostly landless.
Will they give livelihood to 100 million dairy farmers (70% landless) , who will pay for children school fee .. how many can afford expensive lab manufactured factory food made out of chemicals … And synthetic vitamins .. https://t.co/FaJmnCAxdO
— R S Sodhi (@Rssamul) May 28, 2021
Your designs may kill their only source of livelihood.
Peta wants Amul to snatch livelihood of 100 mill poor farmers and handover it’s all resources built in 75 years with farmers money to market genetically modified Soya of rich MNC at exhorbitant prices ,which average lower middle class can’t afford https://t.co/FaJmnCAxdO
— R S Sodhi (@Rssamul) May 28, 2021
Mind it milk is in our faith, our traditions, our taste, our food habits an easy and always available source of nutrition.
Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative society managed by the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.