For Immediate Release:
05 July 2024
Contact:
Hiraj Laljani; HirajL@petaindia.org
Sanskriti Bansore; SanskritiB@petaindia.org
Delhi – Following an appeal from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, Delhi-based retailer Rajmandir Hypermarket stopped selling glue traps – trays coated with a sticky adhesive that ensnares small animals, who can suffer for days before dying – at its stores. The move comes after 32 states and union territories across India, including Delhi, prohibited the manufacture, use, and sale of glue traps in response to PETA India’s efforts. Online platforms Amazon India, Meesho, Flipkart, Snapdeal, and JioMart removed and blocked listings for glue traps earlier this year after being contacted by the group.
“Animals caught in glue traps face a hideously slow and agonising death as they scream, panic, and rip their own skin off in a desperate attempt to escape,” says PETA India Chief Corporate Liaison Ashima Kukreja. “PETA India commends Rajmandir Hypermarket for protecting wildlife from these vile devices and calls on all other retailers to follow its lead.”
Wildlife – including birds, snakes, mice, rats, and squirrels – who get stuck in the glue struggle desperately to escape, sometimes chewing off their own limbs before succumbing to shock, dehydration, asphyxiation, or blood loss. They continue to produce urine and faeces, through which pathogens including hantavirus, salmonella, and the bacteria that cause leptospirosis are transmitted, posing a major health hazard. Glue traps are also largely ineffective because they neglect to address the source of the problem: as long as food remains accessible, more animals will move in to take the place of those who have been killed.
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
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