Vegetarianism
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When Even Jainism Becomes a Hack
X.T.M argues that students falsely claiming to be Jain at Stanford to avoid the meal plan reveal how institutions treat religion as paperwork. He says Jainism is an ethnic, mercantile…
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Do Pakistanis eat this much red meat?
Struck by a dinner menu with no vegetarian option, X.T.M asks whether Pakistanis eat this much red meat, quotes a comment tying carbohydrate-heavy menus to Pashtun and Afghan areas, and…
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Down with eggs?
Razib Khan asks whether there is a good nutritional case for BJP-aligned governments removing eggs from school meals, arguing that growing children need protein and fat, that India still has…
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The truth still matters
Razib Khan disputes a claim that vegetarianism was a Brahmin invention, arguing the standard account is that Sramanic movements such as Jainism and Buddhism drove the shift and Brahmin ritualism…
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Maacher Jhol!
Quotes a report on meat-eating in India, which finds only West Bengal, Assam and Kerala above 80 per cent weekly meat consumption, with a comment that Uttar Pradesh’s higher share…
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Samosas vs. Pakoras
Prompted by a joke about Islamicate samosas versus indigenous pakoras, the author notes that core desi food is heavy on carbohydrate and light on protein, prefers Mughlai cooking to Arabic…
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Density of Cows Worldwide
Starting from a map of cow density, the author asks how India became vegetarian, prefers Hindu to Muslim dynasties and Ashoka to Akbar, and argues caste, the greatest faultline after…
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“The whole world should become ahimsak”
On Palitana’s Jain-led demand for a town free of meat and vice, the author argues Jains now behave as neo-Brahmins, and reflects on how Brahmins have been teachers and lawyers…
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An agnostic bats for ahimsa
A note reproducing Khushwant Singh’s views on non-violence, vegetarianism and the death penalty, which he called murder by the state, posted after his death with the poster’s RIP.
