{"id":16165,"date":"2018-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/10\/03\/india-a-country-of-vegetarians-because-of-religion-and-necessity\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"india-a-country-of-vegetarians-because-of-religion-and-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/10\/03\/india-a-country-of-vegetarians-because-of-religion-and-necessity\/","title":{"rendered":"India, a Country of Vegetarians Because of Religion and Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laconexionusa.com\/noticias\/20180930217774_lc21777430.asp\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 30, 2018 (La Conexion USA, translated from Spanish): In India there are &#8220;vegetarians&#8221; and &#8220;non-vegetarians,&#8221; a categorization of eating habits that illustrates the conditions in a country in which, for a certain segment of upper class Hindu society, not eating meat is an obligation, while for the most humble members of society, the &#8220;green&#8221; diet is a matter of financial necessity. In New Delhi, the waiting lines at the entrance of some of the most popular vegetarian restaurants are common, while in the &#8220;mixed&#8221; establishments the vegetarian menu stands out, noting with flashy notices the meat dishes to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>With the celebration of World Vegetarian Day tomorrow ( October 1st), the data is clear, highlighting India as the global Mecca of followers of &#8220;nonviolent food,&#8221; as the popular yoga guru Baba Ramdev pointed out to EFE. According to the latest survey on eating habits in the country, carried out during the period 2015-2016 by the Indian Ministry of Health, 30% of women and 22% of men in India declare themselves to be purely vegetarian. However, when you dig deeper into the statistics, those numbers skyrocket to the green side, showing that around 90% of the population consumes vegetables daily, while only 6% eat meat daily and that only 36% of the female population and 43% of men eat meat at least once a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 30, 2018 (La Conexion USA, translated from Spanish): In India there are &#8220;vegetarians&#8221; and &#8220;non-vegetarians,&#8221;,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}