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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Barring Rajasthan and Punjab, meat-consumption in India has risen over the decade. But with higher-caste, politically dominant Hindus turning to vegetarianism, at least 23 states now have beef bans, 15 states disallow even eggs in midday meals and Air India has largely turned vegetarian. India&#39;s enforced vegetarianism and how it violates the Constitution and rule of law.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Ludhiana &amp; Mumbai: </em>A few weeks before India&rsquo;s Covid-19 second wave, one of the authors (Prannv) was travelling back home from Delhi to Ludhiana on an Indian Railways train, the Vande Bharat Express, headed to Jammu&rsquo;s Katra, abode of the Vaishno-Devi Hindu pilgrimage site.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Upon requesting a non-vegetarian meal, the staff refused, saying, &ldquo;Sir, yeh train toh Mata ke [Vaishno Devi shrine] tak jaa rahi hai, isspar non-veg manaa hai&rdquo;(Sir, this train is going to the Vaishno Devi Mata shrine, hence non-veg food is not allowed).</p>

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Some questions arose: Why was there a presumption that every passenger on board the train was a Vaishno-Devi going, Hindu pilgrim, vegetarian by default? The Indian Railways is a government-owned opertion, so why is an entity owned and operated through a constitutional mandate failing to uphold fundamental rights against discrimination?</p>

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Earlier, on an Air India flight in 2019 from Goa to Mumbai, an air-hostess informed journalist Saba Naqvi that Air India had stopped serving non-vegetarian food to economy class passengers on domestic routes since 2017. One of us experienced this in March 2021.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">On 12 July 2021, the government of Assam proposed to a law that would ban the sale of beef in areas predominantly inhabited by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains and within a radius of 5 km of a temple, the first &nbsp;state in the northeast to do so. &nbsp;Similarly, on 15 July, &nbsp;the government of Jammu &amp; Kashmir banned the slaughter of cows, calves and camels on Eid-ul-Azha (Bakri Eid).</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">These seemingly unconnected events are evidence of India&rsquo;s tryst with enforced vegetarianism, which is increasingly embedded into legislation and government policy in violation of the Constitution and judicial pronouncements and minoritarian, as it appears to be driven by a rise in vegetarianism among politically influential higher-caste Hindus.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://article-14.com/post/as-higher-caste-influential-hindus-turn-vegetarian-states-govts-try-to-enforce-vegetarianism--60f6447a8b2e7">click here</a> to read more.&nbsp;</p>
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Earlier, on an Air India flight in 2019 from Goa to Mumbai, an air-hostess informed journalist Saba Naqvi that Air India had stopped serving non-vegetarian food to economy class passengers on domestic routes since 2017. One of us experienced this in March 2021.</p>

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As Higher-Caste Influential Hindus Turn Vegetarian, States, Govts Try To Enforce Vegetarianism -Prannv Dhawan & Sabah Gurmat

-Article-14.com Barring Rajasthan and Punjab, meat-consumption in India has risen over the decade. But with higher-caste, politically dominant Hindus turning to vegetarianism, at least 23 states now have beef bans, 15 states disallow even eggs in midday meals and Air India has largely turned vegetarian. India's enforced vegetarianism and how it violates the Constitution and rule of law. Ludhiana & Mumbai: A few weeks before India’s Covid-19 second wave, one of the authors (Prannv) was travelling back home from Delhi to Ludhiana on an Indian Railways train, the Vande Bharat Express, headed to Jammu’s Katra, abode of the Vaishno-Devi Hindu pilgrimage site.  Upon requesting a non-vegetarian meal, the staff refused, saying, “Sir, yeh train toh Mata ke [Vaishno Devi shrine] tak jaa rahi hai, isspar non-veg manaa hai”(Sir, this train is going to the Vaishno Devi Mata shrine, hence non-veg food is not allowed). Some questions arose: Why was there a presumption that every passenger on board the train was a Vaishno-Devi going, Hindu pilgrim, vegetarian by default? The Indian Railways is a government-owned opertion, so why is an entity owned and operated through a constitutional mandate failing to uphold fundamental rights against discrimination? Earlier, on an Air India flight in 2019 from Goa to Mumbai, an air-hostess informed journalist Saba Naqvi that Air India had stopped serving non-vegetarian food to economy class passengers on domestic routes since 2017. One of us experienced this in March 2021. On 12 July 2021, the government of Assam proposed to a law that would ban the sale of beef in areas predominantly inhabited by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains and within a radius of 5 km of a temple, the first  state in the northeast to do so.  Similarly, on 15 July,  the government of Jammu & Kashmir banned the slaughter of cows, calves and camels on Eid-ul-Azha (Bakri Eid). These seemingly unconnected events are evidence of India’s tryst with enforced vegetarianism, which is increasingly embedded into legislation and government policy in violation of the Constitution and judicial pronouncements and minoritarian, as it appears to be driven by a rise in vegetarianism among politically influential higher-caste Hindus.  Please click here to read more.