Persons in News December 2013: Shashi Tharoor selected as PETA's 'person of the year'
Shashi Tharoor selected as PETA's 'person
of the year'
>> Union Minister of State for HRD
Shashi Tharoor has been chosen as the "Person of the Year" by animal
rights campaigner PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) for
initiating steps for animal protection on 27 December 2013.
>> Tharoor used the power and
prestige of his office to advocate for the protection of animals, a PETA
release said.
>> He had encouraged the National
Council of Educational Research and Training to examine PETA's Central Board of
Secondary Education approved - 'Compassionate Citizen humane' - education
programme for incorporation into its textbooks.
>> Tharoor, representing
Thiruvananthapuram in the Lok Sabha, is also supporting the use of non-animal
methods for teaching students and training teachers, it said.
>> Tharoor's other efforts to help
animals include writing a letter to Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad urging him
to implement non-animal methods of teaching in medical courses.
>> "In addition, he urged the
National Council for Teacher Education to ban the use of animals, such as for
dissection, in training teachers," it said.
>> Actors Hema Malini and R Madhavan
were previous recipients of PETA India's Person of the Year Award, the release
added.
About PETA
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) (stylized PeTA) is an American animal rights organization based in
Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. A
non-profit corporation with 300 employees, it claims to have three million
members and supporters and to be the largest animal rights group in the world.
Its slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for
entertainment or abuse in any way”.
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