‘Give a Fig!’ PETA’s Delivery to COP28 Urges Fully Vegan Menu

Dubai – On the heels of reports that the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) will serve mostly vegan food for the first time in its history, PETA is sending a fig tree to COP28 President-Designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates. The group wants him to give a fig, make the conference 100% vegan, as their UK affiliate had requested in a letter to Dr Sulant on July 12th. PETA urges the public to follow suit and go all in on animal-free eating. The message comes just days after UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the arrival of the “era of global boiling“ and after the agency previously acknowledged that vegan eating is necessary to mitigate the worst effects of the climate catastrophe.

“The planet is in such peril that the UN is finally listening to its own advice and dishing up vegan meals, but unless the climate conference goes all-vegan, it’s like giving out cigarettes at a cancer conference,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA commends this step in the right direction and urges the UN to embrace the whole banana by adopting an entirely vegan menu, for animals and Mother Earth.”

Animal agriculture is responsible for nearly one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. The meat, egg, and dairy industries also use an enormous amount of water – it takes more than 2,400 gallons to produce just 1 pound of beef – while polluting waterways with manure runoff, and more than 80% of all Amazon rainforest land cleared since 1970 is used for grazing livestock, exacerbating the climate catastrophe.

In addition to helping save the planet, each individual who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year daily misery inside a dark shed or on a squalid feedlot and a terrifying death under the slaughterhouse knife.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram

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