India

From The Case for a Vegan World

I'm rather ignorant, but my sense after visiting a few times is that India is very friendly to vegetarians, the majority of menus having huge vegetarian sections, but that there was a rather pervasive use of milk and butter. --Joi 21:35, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I've heard that most Hindus follow the lacto-vegetarian diet, believing eating an egg is the same as eating a living thing. --Greenwoodtree 23:18, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

It is not true that most Hindus follow a lacto-veg diet, religious ones might only do so on fasting days. Most are in fact meat-eaters and I have been told by actual Indians that many veggies become meat-eaters when they go to boarding school etc.

The use of milk is indeed pervasive, Indians think ghee (made from butter)is a food of the Gods. In my experience, they would even lie to a vegan about the ghee content of food. Even when one claims to be lactose intolerant, they would think it cannot harm the person because 1. it has no more lactose in it and 2. it is a sacred food. That has been my experience in Indian restaurants and communities in africa in any case.137.158.152.207 00:27, 20 April 2008 (UTC)v-gan