Parenting: Raising Healthy Vegan Children ~ OUR Future: Veg-Kids (French Subs)

[AppleSouffle]

The vegetarians of Southern India eat a low-calorie diet very

high in carbohydrates and low in protein and fat. They have

the shortest life span of any society on Earth, and their

bodies have an extremely low muscle mass. They are weak and

frail and the children clearly exhibit a failure to thrive.

Their heart disease rate is double that of the meat eaters in

Northern India.

HL Abrams. Vegetarianism: An anthropological/nutritional evaluation. J of App Nutrit, 1980, The Myths of Vegetarianism.

[XNinjaSebX]

@AppleSouffle You said it in the fist line LOW CALORIE. Meat eating in india is one indicator of wealth. Those ''vegetarians'' (I would rather say they're on a starving diet) live in really poor conditions, that's probably why they're vegetarians, not by choice but because they can't afford meat.

[alphonzawill]

@XNinjaSebX I understand your point that some people are vegetarian by default because of finances. Many if not most of them are actually vegetarian based off of their religous beliefs also.