Real Price of a Chicken Nugget || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Killing to eat flesh, you call yourself human? || Acharya Prashant, on Veganism (2019) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Transcript

00:00Every meat-eater is actually being subsidized, greatly subsidized by every non-meat-eater.

00:06This is injustice.

00:07This is direct stealing of money, pinching of money from the pocket of the vegetarian

00:14or the vegan to subsidize the meat-eater.

00:17When you eat meat, when you eat chicken, you are actually not paying for the environmental

00:24damage that your plate of meat has caused.

00:27You are not paying for the climate change, you are not paying for the biodiversity depletion,

00:33you are not paying for the loss of tropical jungles, green cover, nothing.

00:38Who is bearing that cost?

00:39Whole population.

00:40Whole population, meaning just to help you have your chicken, everybody else is paying

00:46the price.

00:47And it is gross injustice that the thing is being offered to you as a subsidy.

00:52So there has to be taxation.

00:54There has to be clear, commensurate, just taxation.