Request To Indian People From Vegetarians Of World

Author(s): Young Indian Vegetarians
Publisher: Young Indian Vegetarians

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WHY INDIA SHOULD NOT IMITATE THE WEST:
Our message to the people of India is this: Please stick to your religious vegetarian traditions. It is infinitely superior to our meat eating habits. Indeed, in Britain now, over one million people have come to the same conclusion, realising that vegetarianism is the only humane and healthy diet for the human race. We can feed ten times more people on vegetarian food than on meat; we can keep more healthy on a well balanced vegetarian diet and, just as importantly, only by avoiding meat can we rid ourselves of the horror of slaughterhouses. Every year in British slaughterhouses millions of frightened animals are pushed and prodded and inhumanely killed in bloody and smelly buildings, to produce food that we do not need. On the contrary, many doctors are now claiming that eating too much meat is one of the factors contributing towards the main killer disease in Britain - heart disease.
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Depressingly, we in the West hear that India is now imitating our factory farming methods. We read with dismay that millions of chickens are being reared in factory farms, as they are in our country. As well as being degarding for humans and animals, such methods have, by the India Poultry Industry's own admission, made no impression upon beating malnutrition. How can they when the poor cannot possibly. afford to buy such luxury goods? There may be many aspects of Western life you admire and wish to emulate but meat eating is neither admirable nor necessary.
The imprisonment of farm animals in factory farms, where they never take excercise feel fresh air or in many cases, even turn around and the carnage of slaughterhouses is something which increasingly many of us in the West feel ashamed about, not proud. Rather than imitating us you in fact should go on setting a more human and civilised example to us in the West by continuing to take the path of non-violence to animals and humans. Vegetarianism is the only answer. Remember the vegetarian slogan; live and let live,
MARK GOLD OF THE ANIMAL AID SOCIETY U.K.