Veganism vs Vegetarianism & relevance to Hinduism.
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Veganism is a concept that discourages any kind of animal products in the diet.
The basic concept is to be not exploiting animals. Including honey or milk.
Vegeterians are people who do not consume meat.
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Now while the concept of Veganism is appreciable
a) it's not completely practical
b) it's not an Indian concept, but imbibed from the west, where probably it's more relevant
Now b4 u shoot me, ley me explain.
A) it's not possible bcoz from the medicine used to vaccine taken
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Its all animal based. Even fermented food items. So 100% vegan is a myth.
Isn't it?
Now the more important part
B)In western culture, dairy animals are hybrid, injected with hormones, to increase the milk. Even the diet fed is such. Hence the composition of milk is changed
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Which leads to lactose intolerance, gaining dairy a bad name.
Before I go into scientific reasoning of why milk is healthy or not let me discuss the Indian context of Dairy industry.
Except for the few big players in Dairy industry, mostly the source of milk in India r small
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Time farmers with few cows. Who do not hav enough resources to either inject hormones or buy costly hybrid cows. They depend on this for survival.
Similarly, in recent past the honey industry was westernized, however before this honey too was extracted without killing bees
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Trained villagers would do smoke to disperse the bees.
The stress on organic honey has gone back to the same procedure. Hence avoidance of honey Is neutralized.
Besides the bee farming is extremely crucial as Bee is the most important insect in the world.
Silk/wool i am not
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Debating.
One must also note that earlier, vows were used to take milk, Bull was used for progeny Ox in the field.
Tractors have made OX irrelevant hence increased beef Products. Same would happen to cows too.
Coming to the scientific part of the Dairy industry.
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WHO has always been less than honest when it comes to Dairy & infant feeding.
In my research through nasally intubated premature infants, & normal infants (both C-section/ normal delivery)
I found that when the babies were fed a combination of Cow's milk with breast milk, 8
Infants developed sIgA (antibody), faster than the infants in formula or exclusively breast milk.
2006 National health survey also found that mortality rate in UP came drastically down when infants were fed combination of Cows milk.
This made me to research content of milk 9
When we compared buffalo. Cow's (Desi) & packaged milk, we found least development of bacteria & smear layer in Cows milk.
Antibodies were found maximum in Cows milk followed by Buffalo.
The packaged milk had least amount of nutrients
Cows milk (i don't speak about hybrids) 10
Had composition almost similar to that of mother's milk.
Now, breast milk for infants is largely influenced by diet, exposure to pollutants, number of pregnancies, climate,& age of mother.
Where as Cows milk is consistent hence so much stress on A2 milk these days,
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WHO recommendation for no animal milk to infants is largely based of either developed or under privileged countries. Hence the relevance to India is very limited.
It's also found that infants fed on Infant formula are more unhealthy & have chances of obesity.
Honey is now
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Claimed to be next wonder food by west. Like turmeric, Honey has been used in India for centuries due to its antibacterial properties.
It's also got High glycemic index. It's far better than sugar in more ways than one.
Rich in antioxidants, anti aging agents, antibodies
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Anti inflammatory agents, the list is endless.
It could very well be a conspiracy to restrict Honey only to medicines.
So my two cents of the topic is,vegetarianism that's been the back bone of Hinduism is far more relevant & scientific.
The problem is not with the dairry
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Problem is with the crazy westernization & loosing our practices.
Besides,as long as people are eating veggies with fertilizers, using cosmetics, creams, sanitizer,soaps loaded with polyphenols, only giving up on Dairy isnt gonna eradicate Irritating bowel or Lactose intolerance
On the other hand if we go back to our ancient practices, sticking to the basics, starting chemical free, it's more healthy & practical on longer run.
Remaining decision is individual.
Bt demonizing of Dairy is utterly false. It would just increase beef industry,nothing else 15
My only concern for writing this thread.
Another point, A2 milk with honey is far superior than any health drink ur child drinks.
Soy milk even though advertised alot, may lead to hormonal imbalance. It's a scam.
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