Letter to BS: Switching to vegan diet has become urgent need of the hour

Apropos "Food security to be severely hit because of climate change"(August 9). Year after year, the United Nations has been advising that a sustainable future lay in avoiding industrial meat and consciously switching to vegan diets. Although the average annual per capita meat consumption in India isn’t as alarming as in America, switching to vegetarian/vegan diet has become the urgent need of the hour, given the ecological destruction and untold animal suffering that meat industries are causing. Let us not forget the claustrophobic rearing conditions, artificial diets (leading to methane emissions from animal farms), antibiotics abuse and above all, the