Vegetarians, Beware: Your Plate May Have Blood Stains || Acharya Prashant, on Veganism (2019)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Every meat eater is actually being subsidized, greatly subsidized by every non-meat eater.

00:10 This is injustice.

00:11 This is direct stealing of money, pinching of money from the pocket of the vegetarian

00:19 or the vegan to subsidize the meat eater.

00:25 When you eat meat, when you eat chicken, you are actually not paying for the environmental

00:36 damage that your plate of meat has caused.

00:43 You are not paying for the climate change.

00:47 You are not paying for the biodiversity depletion.

00:53 You are not paying for the loss of tropical jungles, green cover, nothing.

01:00 None of that has been factored in into the price of your tandoori chicken.

01:09 But the cost is enormous.

01:11 So somebody is bearing that cost.

01:13 Who is bearing that cost?

01:14 Whole population.

01:17 Whole population meaning just to help you have your chicken, everybody else is paying

01:24 the price.

01:26 So if you are paying rupees 200 or 300 for your plate of chicken, its actual price should

01:36 be maybe 800 or 1000.

01:39 And it is gross injustice that the thing is being offered to you as a subsidy.

01:49 So there has to be taxation.

01:52 There has to be clear commensurate just taxation.

02:04 Two things I talked of, culture and fiscal measures.

02:13 Then there has to be education.

02:14 People have to know.

02:15 People have to know what milk is.

02:19 People have to know what meat is.

02:21 People have to know the entire cycle.

02:27 People talk so much about the right to information and everybody is so curious these days.

02:31 People want to gossip.

02:32 People want to say, "No, we want to know everything".

02:35 First of all, don't you want to know what is going into your body?

02:41 First of all, don't you want to know what is going into your body?

02:45 So that has to be made known.

02:48 Actually, it has to be made known that agriculture as such is not the absolutely holy profession

03:08 it is made out to be.

03:12 Very very few people know that probably around two-thirds of all agriculture, rather three-fourths

03:22 of all agriculture is just to support meat eating.

03:26 Now you will wonder what am I saying.

03:31 You will wonder, right?

03:32 People think of farmers as some kind of pursuers of a most noble profession.

03:41 They say, "You know, you should be a farmer".

03:47 Especially in India, everybody is talking about poor farmers and this and that.

03:52 Everybody is talking of upholding farming and I support that.

03:56 Any person who is in need, needs to be supported.

04:00 But the field of farming, the entire industry of farming, the entire sector of agriculture,

04:08 it has to be seen in perspective.

04:10 We must know the facts.

04:11 Truth has to be exposed.

04:18 Out of every four kilograms of grain that comes out from the farmer's field, three kilograms

04:26 goes towards feeding animals so that they can be slaughtered and the meat eaters can

04:33 have their meat.

04:37 That's the reality of agriculture.

04:43 On one hand, we talk so much about preserving forests and if forests go, then the habitat

04:50 of so many species just disappears.

04:54 You need not physically eliminate those species.

04:56 You just need to cut the forests down and those species are gone.

05:01 Now why are the forests disappearing at such a huge rate?

05:06 Do you know even as we are talking, how many acres of forest has been cleared off in the

05:12 last one hour itself?

05:15 Can you even imagine?

05:16 Now go find out.

05:17 You will be startled.

05:20 Even as we are discussing this, at an unimaginable pace, trees are being felled.

05:28 Unimaginable pace.

05:29 Why are those trees being felled?

05:32 So that there can be more agriculture.

05:35 That agriculture goes towards feeding the ever increasing population because we cannot

05:39 live without kids.

05:42 Further, we cannot live without our chicken wings and chicken burgers and mutton this

05:49 and beef that.

05:52 We do not even know that to get one kilogram of chicken or mutton or beef, you require

05:59 probably 20, 30 or 40 kilograms of grains.

06:02 So most of the grains that is being raised in the farmer's fields is for the purposes

06:09 of meat.

06:12 That is something people must know.

06:16 You cannot just blindly keep on talking of agriculture as something so holy and pious

06:24 and natural.

06:26 Are you getting it?

06:31 Then the kids, the kids, the kids reach out to them.

06:41 It has to be a holy war.

06:44 You have to, pardon me my language, invade schools.

06:50 It's a battle for the mind.

06:57 The kid must grow up knowing fully well that it's monstrous to kill an animal to eat it.

07:10 And that would require a change in the entire value system of the kid.

07:16 Veganism cannot succeed if you just keep talking of animals.

07:23 You keep saying, oh it is bad to look at animals as a commodity, it is bad to exploit animals.

07:31 If man is exploiting man, why will man refrain from exploiting animals?

07:36 So veganism has to be holistic, comprehensive.

07:42 You may not like it to hear it this way, but veganism has to be basically a spiritual movement.

07:51 Veganism has to be a movement of compassion and when compassion comes, you will not be

07:56 compassionate towards merely the animals.

08:00 When compassion rises in you, then you will be compassionate towards everything, everybody

08:05 and yourself.

08:08 First of all, you will cease to be cruel towards yourself, which most people are.

08:15 So veganism needs to broaden its scope.

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