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Vegetarianism and the Cast System
There are connections between the cast system and rates of vegetarianism in traditional indian culture. But what greig is doing is over simplifying things in a way that is specifically designed to compare one to one with modern day infe wars, talking points like how klau shwab wants you to eat bugs. Many of the lower classes in the cast system were not practising hindus, so they wouldn't have been concerned with dietary restrictions which largely stemmed from hindoo beliefs and non violence. The phenomenon you see when you look at historical trends related to the cast system in vegetarianism is actually that the higher someone is in caste, the more likely they are to be vegetarian.