Full video: The Amul-PETA controversy || Acharya Prashant, on Veganism (2021)
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00:00people are saying that lakhs of people are going to lose employment if they switch to plant-based
00:04milk. So what do you have to say about this? If the employment argument is absolute in itself,
00:10then anything that helps a man earn money should be permissible. Then why do we, for example,
00:19punish tax defaulters? He's just trying to make some money for himself, just as the butcher is
00:24trying to make money for himself. So just because something, some activity yields money to somebody,
00:33that does not mean that the activity is okay. You do anything progressive, it is generally
00:40believed that it leads to loss of livelihood and prima facie it does. But when you look at
00:45the complete picture, you'll find that it is not leading to lack of employment, because if it is
00:50actually a new technology, a better way of living, it is leading to an overall increase of efficiency
00:58in the economy.