You're going to do. Make it down down.

down. This is hell.

The kind of stuff that starts fights at the kind of stuff that starts fights at the dinner table, this is hell.

And if you have a vegetarian friend or family member that you do have dinner with on a regular basis. Any fall-up

from mentioning the conversation we are about to have, well, that's on you.

Don't blame us if what we're talking about today causes

some kind of argument at the dinner table.

We are officially warning you that it might. So it's not our fault if you make everybody at the

table feel uncomfortable. With that said, today's show is about vegetarianism kind of it's about a lot more than not

eating meat but eating meat is at the heart of the based on a myth. The problem with that myth as is often the case with myths is it has

been weaponized and in this case within the nationalism of the Prime Minister

Nurentra Modi's BJP party.

But that nationalism isn't just nationalism.

It's Hindu, it's religious nationalism and when that nationalism gets mixed up with religion

It can not only turn violent, but it can become deadly there have been turned violent

there have been incidents of violent beatings

while epithets like meat eaters or beef eaters

are thrown at Muslims that have ended up as murders. The last

several years have been an ugly time in India, but with Modi's and the

BJPs loss over the weekend in local elections in the state of Karnataka,

who knows? Maybe the tide is finally turning against fomenting religious hatred in India against Muslims.

In a few minutes, we'll talk India and the politics of meat eating

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