Meat consumption in India is rising but it also brings its own risks

"Meat-eating at the scale that is happening on the planet does have environmental consequences," says Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder, director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy

India now has the fastest growing number of COVID-19 cases, at over 75,000 cases a day. Overall, the country has had over 5 million cases and about 82,000 deaths. Cases are spreading out into the country as opposed to the original epicentres which were cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru. Despite all of this, there has been limited epidemiological research in this subject from this country.

Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, and his team have studied data for 80,000 cases, about 7,000 deaths and 550,000 contacts in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil