Why are Indians Vegetarians? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00What is happening in the name of milk and dahi and paneer and other things?

00:09Had Mahavir been born today, alive today, would he have tolerated?

00:14He would have very strongly stood up against all of this.

00:20In their times, had dairy industry been the same way as it is today, what do you think

00:27Gautam Buddha would have said the first thing?

00:30He would have said, no, no dairy please, because that's the biggest horror on the planet today.

00:36Along with animal agriculture, animal slaughter, India already has the groundwork done.

00:44We know compassion.

00:45We understand the centrality of compassion.

00:48And that is what has kept India vegetarian, largely vegetarian, for so long.