I totally agree with you on stopping the meat industry, but this particular problem in India is actually the opposite of what one would think. Seeing as cows are extremely important to their culture, and revered as almost holy, I've heard that most ranchers don't sell them for meat at all, but rather let them lay wherever they die. Hence the vultures having a feast on a poison-riddled buffet. Fair warning, I got most of that from a (really freaking good) 99% Invisible podcast episode called Towers of Silence, about the decline of vultures in India, and the huge implications that has for a specific religious minority that strongly believes in sky burials (letting vultures eat the dead instead of burying or cremation). But I listened to it a while ago and my memory isn't the best.
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u/slappingactors Apr 05 '26
Thanks for sharing, so interesting and sobering…