Why to Quit Meat? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Teaching Kids Respect for Others' Choices || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Madras (2023)

Transcript

00:00if your kid is vegetarian obviously that's not by choice that's because he's coming from a

00:06vegetarian family now that's not really very good not that the kid should not be vegetarian

00:11but that the kid should be vegetarian with an understanding of vegetarianism why must i be

00:17vegetarian why must i eat this and not that what is meant by eating what is my relationship with

00:24other sentient beings because the apple or the grass or the leaf too is sentient and that's one

00:32of the arguments meat eaters very readily use they say well you see even plants have life so

00:38how are you vegetarians any different from us meat eaters your kid should know if your kid does not

00:44know then he might very readily turn to meat or he might get into some kind of bigotry and start

00:53hitting meat eaters