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Vegan food: The west vs India (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (15 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country

About 30% are vegetarian in India. Almost 10% are vegan.

So it's very prevalent, but America likes to pretend we're the only country in the world and that problems are never solved anywhere else.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Where are the Indian vegans? I have only ever met ONE in my entire life except myself.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I would say about 30% of my Indian coworkers over the years have been vegan.

    I think the challenge is that, unlike a lot of Western vegans, they don't go out of their way to talk about it. My second job, I knew day 1 about the white girl who was vegan. It took me 2 years to learn that 4 of my Indian coworkers were vegan since birth. And I only learned it because they learned I was getting into Indian food so they all started bringing stuff in for me to try. Entire meals. Incredible meals. I miss that job, lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    My family loves to announce to the world that I don't drink milk. It's annoying. Idk they're probably in shock or something that someone would choose not to abuse cows. (They're vegetarians, I'm vegan)

    Where do you live? I assume outside India? Hmm

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well yeah, very outside of India. I live in the US, though I try not to make my identity about that.

    But one thing I've loved about working in Boston is how many cultures I've been exposed to in my life.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    no one abuses cows anyway

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Tell me you know nothing about it without telling me you know nothing about it

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