500 million vegetarians

http://www.vegetarians.co.nz/articles/500-million-vegetarians-in-india/

Patronizing McD and KFC in India seems to be at moral odds with respect to the fact that both those businesses are heavily meat-oriented elsewhere in the world, even though they cater to vegetarianism in that particular country.

 

They don't sell beef or chicken in India?

 

Speaking of vegetarianism,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-fuhrman-md/heart-health-prevent-and-reverse_b_783565.html

 

I don't think we were talking about vegetarianism.

 

Beef is pretty damn rare. Chicken, lamb, goat and fish are all over though.

 

Cows' sacred status send Indian beef sales soaring
Cows may be sacred in India, and beef consumption frowned upon, but that doesn't stop the country exporting the meat.

Indeed, India is to top the US as the third-biggest beef exporter next year, on America's own estimates.

And it will come within an ace of stealing top rank from Australia.

India will account for nearly half of world growth in beef exports in 2012 "on increased supplies and price-competitive shipments to emerging markets", raising shipments to 1.28m tonnes, double those in 2009.

 

Wow, I didn't know that. When I said rare I meant in terms of finding it to eat.

 

I Know, I was getting onto that, but then was distracted by a visitor...
From what I can ascertain they eat more buffalo. 2012: Indians annually consume 1.14 million tonnes of buffalo meat.
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/30/food-fascism-the-vegetarian-hypocrisy-in-india/

 

The food in India is so damn good, you don't miss meat really. Or McDonald's and KFC for that matter.

 

delhi belly not all that fun though...

a lot of travellers end up going vegetarian, not always an ethical choice

 

500 million vegetarians, but I ain't one

This isn't anything new

 

I went semi-vegetarian whilst in India, purely because I absolutely loved the veggy curries. And a little bit because I saw how they treat the meat.

 

As far as I know you are not in India.

 

That is true, and I doubt I ever will be

 

I think you would make a lovely Indian.

 

I don't see it, but thank you, I guess.

 

Yes, it was a compliment indeed. Gotta look with your third eye to see it, dear Piaf.

 

The food in india has been so damn bad at times that it has become near pickled in spices and cooked to oblivion to conceal it's unsavory elements

 

I may go veggie at age 33. when i dont need muscles to be taken seriously from the oppoppo sex.

 

I agree, that it seems weird for vegetarians to be going to McDonalds or KFC in the first place. Mind you, like anyone, I suppose there are vegetarians out there that just still eat crap.