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Ever since the British era, different tactics have been adopted for propagation of non-vegetarianism in this country. One such deep-rooted tactic is propagating consumption of milk as non-vegetarianism.
Let us fathom as to from where this concept originated. In the last few decades, European countries have been swept by the idea of vegetarianism. In the process, large groups of "more than thy" vegetarians have cropped up. They call themselves `VEGANS'. These vegans consider themselves to be on a much higher pedestal compared to the ordinary vegetarians. They strongly propagated the idea that those who have given up non-vegetarianism but consume milk are still non-vegetarians, as milk is obtained from the body of an animal just like the animal's flesh. This campaign appealed very strongly even to the hardcore vegetarianism
converts.
As a result of spread of mechanization, animals started becoming useless. Yet due to yielding of milk and milk products, the milch animals are still economically useful. If milk is propagated as a non-vegetarian substance, on one hand it will create an abhorrence in the minds of vegetarians and on the other, as a result of decline in demand for milk even the milch animals will become useless.
There is another facet to this. The dislike for non-vegetarian food amongst vegetarians will decline. They may tend to think that by consuming milk till now, they have in fact been non-vegetarians. Then what is the harm in becoming non-vegetarians consuming animal flesh? (In fact the word `vegetarianism' itself is a misnomer and it has been circulated tacitly in support of non-vegetarianism. The
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