Take a look at this one: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3614002.ece
Read the comments!!!! It is so easy to reduce vegetarianism to individual choice and habit...but the deep-seated discomfort with it is very much cultural and ideological. We forget that. Not all food or other choices induce us to keep certain people out. But, this one does. Secondly, why is it that so many people from certain class and caste and religious groups are house owners while other groups are typically renting houses? The distribution of resources like land and housing is skewed in favour of certain communities - why?? The report itself mentions how systematically better areas are given to upper classes and castes. Lastly, people who dislike nonvegetarianism are not very likely to accept that many of the highest selling cosmetic products are responsible for destruction of habitats, entire forests, systems of livelihoods and communities...those products use raw material which requires large scale commercial farming. Many everyday products also use animal parts - e.g. glue sticks.
Why is one kind of consumption harming animals acceptable but not others? And you are saying this differential attitude towards various kinds of consumption has nothing to do with class, caste and religion?
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