No-veg in India

[Guest guest]

I saw this article today on the India homepage. this is clear

evidence of what I have known all my life in some parts of the country

the majority of Hindus are not vegetarian. In Kerela most everybody

eats eggs, fish, and chicken. This is not new this has been true all

of my life and I am close to 70. So the arguments that some have been

making that Indians are unhealthy because of being vegetarians is

bogus. In the lower classes poverty is the major cause of the health

issues - in the middle classes the health problems are caused by

eating sugar and fried foods - and other heavy foods - including

non-veg - in India for rich people the health problems are similar to

the western countries.

 

 

Non-Veg in India all the buzz.

By IBNlive.com

Sunday August 13, 10:15 PM

 

New Delhi: If you thought India is largely a vegetarian country, then

think again.

 

According to an exclusive poll conducted by CNN-IBN and Hindu, it was

found that the majority of Indians are non-vegetarians.

 

The food habits, however, varied on the basis of region and religion.

The survey says while just two per cent of Keralites are vegetarian,

less than four per cent survive on greens in Andhra Pradesh and eight

per cent in Orissa and Tamil Nadu.

 

The percentage of vegetarian families are higher in northern India,

with Rajasthan accounting for 63 per cent vegetarian people, Haryana

62 per cent, Punjab 48 per cent, Gujarat 45 per cent, Madhya Pradesh

35 per cent and Uttar Pradesh 33 per cent. There are nine per cent

others who are vegetarians but they eat eggs.

 

Overall, only 31 per cent individuals prefer vegetarian food and 60

per cent others have shown a definite preference for non-vegetarian

food. In the overall count, 21 per cent Indian families are pure

vegetarians while 44 per cent families prefer having non-vegetarian food.

 

And 32 per cent families have people who eat both vegetarian as well

as non-vegetarian foods.

 

When it comes to beverages, tea and coffee remain the most favoured

drinks with as many as 77 per cent people consuming tea or coffee on a

daily basis while 44 per cent have milk everyday.

 

The percentage of people who consume soft drinks on a daily basis is

still a low 15 per cent.

 

The survey, however, found that drinking habits were on the rise in

both urban and rural areas in the last decade. As many as 40 per cent

people agreed that alcohol consumption has increased considerably

while 24 per cent believe that it has increased only a little.

 

Fourteen per cent people thought drinking has gone down in the last

decade.

 

As many as 73 per cent people said the government should ban

consumption of alcohol and while 18 per cent others said it should be

left to the individual's choice.

 

The survey also found 21 per cent people to be regular smokers.

 

When asked about the quality of food available now as compared to

their parents' generation, 45 per cent people said the quality has

improved.

 

However, it was alarming is that almost one-third of the Indians still

go without two square meals a day.

 

As many as 27 per cent Indians said in the survey that they

experienced hunger sometimes in the last one year. That means

one-third of India has experienced hunger often or sometimes in the

last one year.

 

However, 65 per cent Indians say that they never experienced hunger in

the last one year.

 

Incidence of hunger is higher among the rural poor with 45 per cent

having experienced it. Over 40 per cent people in the urban poor

category have experienced hunger.

 

Among dalits, 44 per cent say they have slept on a hungry stomach

often during the last one year while 50 per cent Adivasis have

experienced hunger at some point or the other during the last one year.

[Guest guest]

It is wrong to say non-vegetarians are healthy and vegs are

not. Cleanliness is a must. Other habits like smoking, alchohol,

etc., contribute to ill health. Ofcourse, basically, Indians are

vegetarians, that is, we have only a few pieces of meat, fish or

egg, whereas, n the west, people use these items re stapple food.

 

ayurveda, "Vinod Kumar" <vinod3x3

wrote

> the majority of Hindus are not vegetarian. In Kerela most everybody

> eats eggs, fish, and chicken. This is not new this has been true

all

> of my life and I am close to 70. So the arguments that some have

been

> making that Indians are unhealthy because of being vegetarians is

> bogus.

[Guest guest]

That's not entirely true (about West having meat as staple). A lot of Indians too have a heavy meat diet, its more about accessibility and affordability of meat.

 

 

subramani6912 <subramani6912 >

we have only a few pieces of meat, fish or

egg, whereas, n the west, people use these items re stapple food.