Vegan Jains

On a Facebook group called Vegans in India, one of the participants stated that this video was among the information that compelled him and his wife to go vegan.

We have been in Ahmedabad, India since end of February and happy to find soymilk and tofu at our local Reliance supermarket. But recently we received our first delivery from Go Vegan , a company in the neighboring city of Vadodara (incidentally my mom’s hometown) that makes soy milk from organic soybeans and also produces a variety of other vegan products such as patties and ice cream. While we can get soymilk many places in the world, nowhere have I seen the truth so clearly printed on a product label. It’s hard to read on the photo below so I’ve retyped it (and corrected a couple of typos).

Do you know?

Just as other mammals on this planet cows give milk only after giving birth to a baby calf. To produce milk most cows are raped every year through artificial insemination and their male babies are kidnapped and slaughtered for meat and leather. Would you drink rape milk again?

more at http://www.govegan.in

Dr. Tushar has produced some excellent presentations on dairy production and cow slaughter in India.  Note that some viewers have disagreed with the domestication of cows on principle, however, there is no question about the harm of consuming dairy products.

Now that we, DrJina and Christian, of Vegan Jains have spent several months in India and Nepal, we’ll be adding some of our thoughts and experiences about dairy in South Asia on this site in the coming weeks.