Peta demands Royal Highland Show swaps animal displays for 'turnip beauty pageant'
Animal rights charity Peta has said Scotland's biggest agricultural show should get rid of its animal displays and go vegan – replacing livestock shows with a "turnip beauty pageant".
Peta, which is known for its provocative and sometimes controversial campaigns, has proposed replacing the event with the Royal Highland Grow, an entirely plant-based event with no animal products, to encourage more environmentally friendly farming practices. It has released a "cheerful" logo for its would-be replacement, featuring new mascots Neep and Tattie – a cartoon turnip and potato.
However, Peta has proposed scrapping animal displays and events and replacing them with vegan alternatives, including a veggie haggis-eating contest, a turnip beauty pageant and a potato sculpting competition. Moving away from encouraging the breeding of livestock, the organisation says, would promote more environmentally sustainable farming practices.
Top news stories today Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that global temperatures could rise by as much as 1.5C because of current farming practices, even if fossil fuel usage was eliminated altogether, because of emissions associated with food production including methane expelled by cows. The study recommended that people move to "predominantly plant-based diets" to avert disastrous climate change.
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