A group of 112 like-minded citizens, including doctors, nutritionists, advocates, researchers apart from six organisations, have written an open letter raising concerns about the recent ‘irrational attacks on the food habits and nutrition rights of citizens’. The group is planning to submit the letter to Union Ministries of Health and Family Welfare, Women and Child Welfare as well as the Prime Minister’s Office.
Asserting that various laws, bans and calls to boycott the sale and consumption of meat are affecting the nutrition and well-being of people, the group has said that research has shown that consuming animal source foods is an important means of addressing India’s glaring nutritional deficiencies.
“The current government at the Centre, its right-wing foot soldier brigade, complicit judiciary and police have gone on a spree of ousting all animal source foods other than dairy from the plate of the average Indian. This can have far-reaching, often irreversible adverse outcomes,” the letter stated.
