<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-size: 13px;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family: Arial;">"largely" being the operative word! Some meat, some of the time can actually be beneficial for the environment, jobs, and health depending on how it's organized. It's the current situation where meat is promoted 3 times/day, 7 days/week after being raised in CAFO's or on lands that were once forested that is so harmful. When it comes to food, nutrition, health and well being, careful language is key. People around the globe evolved eating different diets, plant/grain based, fish based, meat and dairy based. No where at no time were any people being exposed to profit based promotion of peculiar, environment or health destructive diets like they are today. M.<br><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; border-left: #0000ff 2px solid; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: black;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Kaaren Mathias <kaarenmathias@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Dec 4, 2019 10:27 AM
<br>To: Sulakshana Nandi <sulakshana.nandi@gmail.com>, phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org
<br>Subject: Re: PHM-Exch> Article: India is Not a 'Vegetarian Country' Like the EAT-Lancet Report Would Have Us Believe
<br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi Sulakshana/ Sylvia and all - <div>Thanks for sharing this excellent article in The Wire - you underline many important points in this article. At the same time I find as someone vegetarian for environmental reasons, that many in India believe that eating non-veg is somehow a politically progressive thing to do (in the face of Hindu nationalism). In this age of climate change and carbon footprints and over-eating, I think it behoves all of us with the privilege of being well-nourished, and above the poverty line to choose a largely plant based diet.</div><div><br></div><div>Kaaren</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:30 PM Sulakshana Nandi <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:sulakshana.nandi@gmail.com">sulakshana.nandi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Friends<div>Please find the link to an article by Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (who is part of Right To Food Campaign and JSA) and others on the EAT-Lancet Commission report and recommendations, in the context of India <a target="_blank" href="https://thewire.in/food/eat-lancet-commission-vegetarian-country">https://thewire.in/food/eat-lancet-commission-vegetarian-country</a></div><div>I am sure that the issues raised in this article would be relevant for many other countries too.</div><div>with regards</div><div>Sulakshana</div></div>
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