Thread by @sakie339

Bogus 'international studies' like this make patently false claims that are downright dangerous, unethical and fraudulent - that India has a vegetarian dietary guideline and also low greenhouse gas emission (as though the 1st is the reason for the 2nd) (1)
firstpost.com/tech/science/i…

Firstly Indian dietary recommendations are not 'vegetarian'.

Inspite of the clear caste prejudice of those making guidelines, they have not been able to deny the importance of animal source foods in the diet.....and this is not for lack of trying (2)

"Animal foods like milk, meat, fish and eggs and plant foods such as pulses and legumes are rich sources of proteins." Dietary Guidelines India (3)

"Animal proteins are of high quality as they provide all the essential amino acids in right proportions, while plant or vegetable proteins are not of the same quality
because of their low content of some of the essential amino acids." Dietary guidelines India (4)

"Include in the diets, foods of animal origin such as milk, eggs and meat, particularly for pregnant and lactating women and children. Good quality protein is derived from milk, fish, meat, poultry and eggs." Dietary guidelines, India (5)

The study authors say nothing about the serious malnutrition crisis in India, particularly of dalit and adivasi communities and this denial is unethical on all fronts (6) newslaundry.com/2020/03/03/adi…

Breastfeeding children age 6-23 months receiving an adequate diet - 11.0%
Non breastfeeding children age 6-23 months receiving an adequate diet - 19.5%
Total children age 6-23 months receiving an adequate diet - 12.8%
National Family Health Survey 2019 data (7)

Children under 5 who are stunted - 35.4%
Children under 5 who are underweight - 32.9%
Women whose body mass index is below normal (<18.%) 17.2%
Men whose body mass index is below normal - 14.3%
NFHS 2019 data (8)

Women who are overweight or obese (>25) - 30.1%
Men who are overweight or obese - 30.9%
Children age 6-59 months who are anemic (<11 g/dl) 65.5%
Non pregnant women age 15-49 years anemic (<12 gm/dl) - 47.8%
NFHS 2019 data (9)

Pregnant women age 15 - 49 years who are anemic (<11 g/dl) - 45.7%
Men age 15-49 years who are anemic (<13 g/dl) - 19.6%
NFHS 2019 data (10)

Have they considered that India may have fewer automobiles and industries which could be the cause for fewer green house gases?? How can they make these random associations. One can even say that malnutrition is a good thing for the climate!!! (11)

Or that high maternal deaths are associated with lower green house gases?
Or maybe the more stunted children the better?
Or maybe higher rates of rape and abuse of women??
Or what about rampant caste based discrimination? Can that be the cause for reduced greenhouse gases? (12)

Meat eaters in India are being killed, harassed, discriminated because of their eating habits. There is enough evidence that the beef is not a global warming villain as projected by vested interests (13)
livemint.com/mint-lounge/fe…

Not only do these kind of bogus studies come out, but our undiscerning media are rushing to publish this nonsense instead of doing due diligence. Its a new form of colonialisation and it kills more people (14)

To top it the people writing this trash have the audacity to say that "these findings highlight the importance of creating dietary guidelines that take sustainability into account like reducing protein foods and dairy products." (15)

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"Indian diets deriving their proteins from cereals and pulse combination (5:1) have a biological value of only 65% relative to egg protein." Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) 2019. Attached table is the assessment of amino acid scores of "Indian" foods

These stats are for one of the so called ‘better developed’ States in India - Karnataka. National collated data hasn’t been released yet

Dr. Sagari Ramdas articles are worth reading. She shows the link between beef bans and dwindling dairy production/increasing costs.
Has the government (and 'vegetarians') thought through this??
Dairy may just get more inaccessible and expensive !
thewire.in/caste/karnatak…

And this stunting and undernutrition data is -2 standard deviation from mean. -1 would shoot up the numbers even more

Obesity and overweight are primarily due to sugar and cereal/millet heavy diets and low animal food consumption