Rude Food by Vir Sanghvi: The myth of vegetarian India
Jun 03, 2022 07:30 PM IST
The majority of Indians have never been vegetarians and new figures show that the proportion of non-vegetarians is growing
There is often an element of sacrifice associated with vegetarianism. In the Christian world, people abstain from eating meat during Lent as a gesture of piety. It is their way of showing God how devoted they are to him. Of course, the devotion has its limits. In medieval Europe, it was considered okay to eat fish during Lent so, many of France’s many man-made lakes were created only so that fish could be bred to be consumed during Lent. And as the Church grew more corrupt, rich people could buy special dispensations from priests and monks that allowed them to roast a pig or slaughter a sheep during Lent.
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