<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">From: Kaaren Mathias <</span><a href="mailto:kaarenmathias@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">kaarenmathias@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Cc: </span><a href="mailto:phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org</a><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 22:31:21 +0530</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Re: PHM-Exch> Subject: Re: Article: India is Not a 'Vegetarian Country' Like the EAT-Lancet Report Would Have Us Believe</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><div>I fully agree that central in all discussions on diet we must address nutritional value, cultural traditions, politics in every sense, and industrial/ Big Agro food production processes and seek to use of local foods, and food production by sustainable methods which may include meat production... These are all critical and the Lancet article has not given these adequate attention. I still believe that (given the larger carbon footprint of most animal products, for the environment, for animal rights and for cardio-vascular health) most people , especially those who have access to diverse foods, should mostly eat a plant-based diet, even if this is also promoted by a right wing, nationalist Hindutva Govt in India who promote vegetarianism with a very different motive.</div><div><br></div><div>Kaaren</div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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