When you eat meat, when you eat chicken, you are actually not paying for the environmental damage that your plate of meat has cost. You are not paying for the climate change. You are not paying for the biodiversity depletion. You are not paying for the loss of tropical jungles, green cover, nothing. None of that has been factored in into the price of your tandoori chicken.
So, if you are paying rupees two hundred or three hundred for your plate of chicken, its actual price should be maybe eight hundred or thousand. And it is gross injustice that the thing is being offered to you as a subsidy. There has to be taxation.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
