This Actor and Actress Named Hottest Vegans

Mumbai: Animal rights organisation PETA India has named B-Town actors Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor as the Hottest Vegetarian Celebrities for 2016. This was decided via poll wherein visitors to PETAIndia.com cast their votes.

"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.

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

Both the actor beat out a strong group of competitors, including Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, Kangana Ranaut, Vidyut Jammwal, R Madhavan and Sunny Leone.

"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," said Shahid.

The actor, who welcomed his first child with Mira Rajput in September, says he is "very happy being a vegetarian". "I believe that it is the best way to be," Shahid added.

As seen in PETA's expose "Glass Walls", in today's 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.