Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor named ‘hottest vegetarians’ by PETA

Animal rights organisation PETA India has named Bollywood actors Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor as the Hottest Vegetarian Celebrities for 2016.

The duo beat other top competitors, which included megastar Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, Kangana Ranaut, Vidyut Jamwal, R Madhavan and Sunny Leone. The decision was taken following a poll on the PETAIndia.com website.

“Sonam and Shahid are fit, hot, and compassionate, and they’re setting a great example for their fans and millions of people who want to fight climate change with their forks”, said Sachin Bangera, PETA India’s associate director of celebrity and public relations.

Talking about it, Shahid said in a statement: “What has happened now is that I’ve stopped taking milk and milk products. I am lacto-sensitive. A lot of people are lacto-sensitive. But they don’t realise it. I love chicks, pigs, cows, fish, and all the other animals, too. That’s why I turned vegetarian.”

The actor, who welcomed his first child with Mira Rajput in September, says he is happy being a vegetarian and believes it’s the best way to be.

PETA’s exposé ‘Glass Walls’, shows how in industrialised meat and dairy industries, chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious, fish suffocate or are cut open while they’re still alive, pigs are often stabbed in the heart as they scream in pain, and calves are torn away from their mothers within hours of birth.

At the slaughterhouse, animals are often killed in full view of one another and even dismembered while they are conscious and can feel pain.

A United Nations report also concluded that a shift towards a plant-based diet is necessary to combat the worst effects of climate change.