New Delhi, April 5 -- Whatever the path being taken and the level of commitment, the reality is that cutting your meat consumption is a positive step

Even though people have been vegetarian for centuries (Confucious, Plato, Jesus and his brother John, Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, are some that I can think of outside India), the term 'vegetarian' was coined in 1839 and referred to people who ate a plant-based diet.

For the last 200 years, since commercial slaughterhouses were invented, people became strong meat eaters and the result has been devastation on the planet. Now both realization and reaction has set in all over the world. Being vegetarian is fashionable. Few people will now insist in public that they are die hard meat eaters. M...