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2001 – Veg/Non-Veg Logos on Product Packaging
Beauty Without Cruelty was one of the pressure groups whose constant campaigning brought about the governments decision to require veg/non-veg declaration on product packaging. |
2001 – Meat Industry’s Proposal scrapped
Owing to pressure from a campaign spearheaded by Beauty Without Cruelty, the government was forced to reject proposals made by the meat industry in its 10th Five Year Plan for sanctioning new slaughter houses, removing the ban on meat exports. etc. |
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1998: Goat and sheep
sacrifice stopped.
BWC activists succeed in getting
the residents of Udbur village in Mysore district
of Karnataka, to forever forsake their practice
of ritual animal sacrifice inside their temple
during the Sankranti festival.
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1998: Elephant show
stopped.
BWC points out the illegality
of the 'Elephant Show' (a circus within a sanctuary)
at Mudumalai. The Government orders it to be immediately
stopped.
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1997: Dissection made
optional in schools.
The Delhi High Court rules,
in response to petitions sponsored by BWC and other
organizations, that school students have the right
to choose whether or not to dissect living creatures. Earlier, BWC had been
one of the main organizations which successfully
campaigned for the ban on dissection of frogs in
Gujarat. |
1996:
Camel joy-rides banned.
BWC, together with other organizations,
obtains court orders banning the entry of camels
into Mumbai. This landmark victory entails a massive
operation of rescuing and successfully rehabilitating
in Rajasthan. The existing camels used for joy-rides on the beaches.
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1994: Film censored
BWC convinces the Central Board
of Film Certification to censor certain parts of
the film Betaaj Badshah in which the mouth of a
leopard had bee stitched for its performance. |
1991:Wildlife items destroyed
by the Government. BWC organizes,
in collaboration with the Chief Wildlife Warden,
Delhi, by the Government of India, a 'bonfire' of
seized wildlife items worth Rs.7,000,000/-
with the goal of preventing them form being put
back into circulation and in demand. |
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1991/2000: Use of lions,
tigers, panthers, bears, and monkeys in circuses
banned by notification
from Union Ministry of Environment & Forests
based upon report prepared by BWC on
circuses in India. Delhi and Kerala High Courts
uphold notification challenged by Indian Circus
Federation. |
1991:
The Wildlife (Protection) Act,1972, amended
to incorporated almost all the
suggestions given by BWC to the Ministry of Environment & Forests (Government of India) in the new legislation entitled the Wildlife (Protection)
Amendment Act, 1991. |
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1989: Piglet-mutilation
custom stopped
in Terekol, Goa. BWC persuades
the Catholic Church to stop the age-old barbaric
custom of teenage boy biting a piglet to death at Terekol, Goa in celebration of
St John's Baptism. |
1988:
Karakul Lamb Project scrapped
by the Indian Council of Agricultural
Research in response to BWC's pleas, made for 13
long years. Karakul lambs from the former USSR were
being bred to be slaughtered within 48 hours of
their birth for the newborn's tightly wound and
highly priced pelts. |
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1988: Use of live hare
banned
by the Government for the 'sport'
of Greyhound Coursing in Punjab, in which specially
trained greyhounds chase, catch, and tear apart
live hare for the entertainment of spectators. |
1987:
Export of frog's legs-a delicacy abroad
-banned by the Government of
India after a decade of persistent representation
by BWC. Frogs' hind legs were being chopped off
in a barbaric manner; the decline in frogs' numbers
created a near-retributive ecological imbalance.
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1984: Import of Animal
Rennet for making cheese
banned by the Government of
India after seven long years of persuasion by BWC,
saving countless calves abroad from death (animal
rennet is extracted from the stomach of unweaned
calves specially slaughtered for the purpose). |
1977: Export of monkeys
banned
by the Government of India on
BWC's persuasion. Monkeys are routinely subjected
to intense cruelty in research laboratories abroad. |
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