Please don't spread misinformation.
I'm a South Indian (Tamilian specifically) and we consume a lot of milk, curd, eggs on daily basis with meat and seafood (goat, chicken, vanjaram, crab, prawn, etc.) on at least weekly basis.
It is only a subset of Indian population categorically known to belong to the "Brahmin caste" that tend to be vegetarians. Otherwise we South Indians generally enjoy eating meat; it is being limited only due to economic reasons (for Brahmins the reasons are religious taste--they consider meat "repugnant"--yet they consume dairy).
It naturally follows if you eat meat your diet isn't vegetarian. Compres?
If you're Tamil as you claim to be then you'd know the Tamil word for vegetarianism is "saivam" referring to saiva pillai community
Hope this helps.
In North india banias, jains, several kayastha communities are vegetarian and several brahmin communities are non vegetarian.
So when you say that the subset of Indian population that is vegetarian is only brahmin you are factually incorrect.
Please go easy on the hate. Bigotry isn't cool.
Peace!
The subset of South Indians on a vegetarian diet are not "primarily vegan" as they consume a lot of milk and curd on daily basis (and eggs and fish if any of them are wont to).
> If you're Tamil as you claim to be then you'd know the Tamil word for vegetarianism is "saivam" referring to saiva pillai community
The existence of a Tamil word for vegetarianism referring to some community does not automatically prove that the subset of South Indians on a vegetarian diet are "primarily vegan" any more than the existence of a Tamil word for non-vegetarianism ("asaivam") indicates anything of that nature.
> Please go easy on the hate. Bigotry isn't cool.
Since when did pointing out the facts of the matter, so as to prevent the spread of ignorance, come to mean bigotry?
Major source of protein is lentils and beans. Micronutrients are provided by eating a wide variety of vegetables, leaves and roots