What's Wrong in Having Milk? || Acharya Prashant, with Ahimsa Fellows (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Someone who comes from a meat-eating family or the traditional kind of Indian Vashnav

00:13 family where milk and kheer and dahi are a staple, then it comes as a shock to that person

00:26 that milk involves cruelty. It's a totally alien and a disturbing concept. So it has

00:36 to be brought out with due expertise. That does not mean that you have to be especially

00:43 trained in communicating these matters. Just that one has to be sensitive that the other

00:49 person might not really know or even if he knows, it is his environment that has been

00:57 too much on him and so far it has been next to impossible for that person to quit all

01:04 these food items or habits. So these things have to be gently brought out. I understand

01:12 you see when you are familiar with the pain and the suffering that animals go through,

01:18 that disturbs you and that makes you rush to help them. It becomes difficult to be gentle

01:29 and patient and a little slow and measured. Because you have just seen the hell that the

01:37 goat or the cow or the buffalo have to go through. You are acquainted with that. So

01:45 you are agitated and when you see someone consuming meat, you almost want to slap them.

01:53 I appreciate that feeling. But also look at that person, he might come from a family of

01:58 generations of meat eaters and when that fellow was two years of age, that was when he was

02:07 served his first morsel of biryani or chicken piece or something. So it is almost flowing

02:17 in his veins now. He has to be a bit gently weaned away from all that. So one has to be

02:32 relentlessly at it. The bombardment on social media has to be incessant. But when it comes

02:45 to personal confrontation, one has to remember that the objective is not to shame the other.

02:55 The objective is to help the animal. Just shaming the other won't help. In fact, it

03:02 is possible that the other becomes aggressive in his defense and that aggression might mean

03:10 that he says that not only do I continue to eat, but I'll actually consume flesh in double

03:17 the quantity. As some kind of signal of childish defiance, people do that. So it's a tricky

03:29 thing. We want to rush, but we'll have to rush gently. That's something I'm not only

03:38 telling you, that's something that I remind myself of and because I too want to rush.

03:42 I want this whole cruelty to come to an absolute end right now. But that's not how it can happen.

03:55 So one has to gently rush.

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