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While growing up in a vegetarian family, I saw my mother face the big question for most non-meat eating families How do we get adequate protein Pulses, yes, but how do we get more I know of several mothers who moved their children to meat-based diets only because they believed these were more protein-rich. Back then, there was little awareness on how plants can also be an adequate source of protein.
Do you know that one plate of butter chicken-rice costs us almost 3,000 litres of water? Rearing livestock and poultry for food and over-cultivation of water guzzling cash crops is impacting the environment. What India needs is a holistic approach to the issue affordable nutrition and commercially profitable agriculture that are environmentally clean and leave minimum impact on natural resources.
The Collins Dictionary named Climate Strike the word of the year in 2019. Never before have we had so many strong voices across the world on climate change. The pressure on governments and policy makers is high. Policy discussions regularly feature the term climate change or environmental impact. Even as governments are introducing policies that curtail pollution, companies are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprints. But industry isn't the biggest contributor to environmental pollution. The truth is that livestock cows, sheep, chicken and animal farming activity for food produce more pollution than all the planes and cars in the world combined. "Farming activity", which includes raising livestock, was dubbed the single largest contributor to pollution in Europe.