You must also understand that India is agro- pastoral community. By urging people to go vegan, you’re destroying their entire livelihoods. You’re in fact, asking to criminalise entire castes. For centuries and centuries, we’ve been exploiting plants and animals as a matter of right.

Empathy for animals is not as normal as empathy for humans. Animals are indeed the second largest source of food for the world. Dalits in India, for example, can only access (certain kinds of) meat as a source or protein. It is impossible for such people to change to Veganism.

In fact, if you’re problem with non-vegetarianism is that animals are being ‘raped’ and murdered, then maybe, you can change the way the animals are treated rather than ask for ending of the entire dairy sector.