Food fights not new to India. Medieval texts show mud-slinging among Jains, Buddhists, Hindus
In the medieval period, meat was being eaten by most, irrespective of religion. And yet religious leaders were criticising others for doing so. Anirudh Kanisetty writes. (Article from May 2022)
Just a reminder, if you care about reducing lives lost a diet that includes meat responsibility in the right proportions will result in significantly less lives lost than eating a salad.
Compared to mountain-raised beef eating beef will result in significantly FEWER lives lost than a salad. One salad probably cost quite a few insects and mice their lives to make. A mountain-raised cow is wild grazed, so the land isnt suitable for crops, and no animals other than the cow dies. So one cow makes 3000 meals, thats a much better deal than the multiple deaths per plate you expect from a salad.
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@anianimalsmoe you're right tho, Chinese vegetarian food often incorporate lot of meat substitute like seitan and other frozen plant-based meats, I rarely eat those cause too many fat and MSG, unless I wanna make hotpot 😅
Indonesian salads are good, and I think we can skip the carbs, it's often involving peanut sauce, tofu and beansprouts. try googling recipe for: ketoprak, gado-gado, rujak buah (this is just sliced fruits and sweet potato with dipping sauce). asinan Bogor doesn't use peanut sauce but soupy vinegar (I doubt this one is healthy but delish lol).
"Industrial meat is a major source of the emissions causing global warming. Eating it regularly, [#AliciaKennedy] argues, is unsustainable. Yet for many in the United States, meat has long represented security and prosperity; in the 1920s, Republicans promised voters 'a chicken for every pot'."