What's the future of Veganism in India? ||Acharya Prashant, on Veganism(2021)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Indianise and spiritualise veganism, if you want it to succeed ||Acharya Prashant, on Veganism(2021) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ltZNZ0Cco&t=0s  Video Information: The Interviewer Supriya Mishra is the Founder and Editor of 'The Vegan Indians'. Website: https://www.theveganindians.com  Context: What is the solution to climate change? How spirituality can stop the climate change? Climate change have no scientific solution How veganism is related to compassion? Why veganism is necessary for today's generation? What is the relation between veganism and climate change? How could veganism change the world?   Music Credits: Milind Date  ~~~~~

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00:00 How do you think veganism will fare in the coming years?

00:05 Where do you see it going in the next couple of years basically?

00:09 How will the growth be?

00:10 See, there are two different trajectories and the vegan movement will follow one of

00:22 them or be situated at some point in the middle of them.

00:32 The first trajectory is the way it is currently going.

00:37 It will remain a foreign concept, a thing for the rich, a fad for the elite.

00:53 That's how the general public takes it because I am in touch with the common populations

00:59 and dealing with people on an everyday basis is what I do.

01:03 So I know how they look at veganism.

01:06 That's one possibility.

01:08 The other possibility is you ask yourself again and again, what is it that made India

01:15 vegetarian and the same forces that made India vegetarian will make India vegan as well.

01:24 You will have to respect those forces.

01:27 You will have to channelize those forces in your favour because veganism is nothing but

01:35 the logical culmination of vegetarianism.

01:39 Where does vegetarianism come from?

01:43 The feeling that I will not kill the animal, I don't want to harm the animal.

01:48 That same feeling finds its final expression in veganism.

01:59 When I say killing the animal is very very bad, but when I am milking the animal, that

02:06 too is bad.

02:07 Not only that, when I am milking the animal, I am preparing the grounds for its slaughter.

02:17 So you will have to extend vegetarianism into veganism.

02:21 Instead of that I often find that vegans take vegetarianism as some kind of adversary.

02:29 There is no vegetarianism.

02:31 In fact it's a very strange thing.

02:34 I have found, I don't know whether it's a subconscious thing or what, but vegans often

02:40 take vegetarians as bigger adversaries compared to even meat eaters.

02:49 You see meat eaters, we can probably talk to them, but vegetarians, they are horrible.

02:59 It is a problem, huge problem.

03:03 I repeat, veganism will have to be taken as the pinnacle of vegetarianism.

03:12 Vegetarianism is not an enemy.

03:14 You could say vegetarianism is a work in process and veganism is the final output.

03:21 When you go to the people and talk in this language and explain the concept like this,

03:26 then they will understand.

03:30 So Indianizing veganism should be the motto.

03:32 Indianizing and spiritualizing.

03:33 Right.

03:34 It's very important.

03:35 It's very important.

03:36 It's very important.

03:37 [Music]

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