The Health Ministry Suggested That We Need To Be Vegetarians To Be Healthy And No One Wants To Hear It

    "Why are you trying to push a fruit and veg only diet? Saffronising diet?"

    Sonia Mariam Thomas
    by Sonia Mariam Thomas

    BuzzFeed Staff, India

    Earlier today, the Ministry of Health posted this image on Twitter to make a point about "healthy eating".

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    The tweet was later deleted.

    Basically the image on the left is a person eating burgers, meat, and eggs. The one on the right is a person eating only vegetables and fruits.

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    Oh, and it also implies that thinness is a measure of health.

    Here's the thing. As much as the ministry would like to try, India is actually over 70% non-vegetarian.

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    In fact, Jains and Sikhs are the only religious minorities that identify as vegetarian. Most Hindus are meat-eaters too.

    We have a whole commission that has made it its mission to get India to eat more eggs.

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    It also doesn't help the ministry's case that the graphic was stolen off the internet anyway.

    Twitter didn't take the propaganda lying down.

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    Many also highlighted that thinness is not a measure of health at all.

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    Just going to drown my fear and worry for this country in a butter chicken roll. Bye.

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