In these two videos, Dr Nandita answers some common questions about a vegan diet:

Don’t plants feel pain as much as animals do? Will we not deplete forests if everyone became vegetarian?

How do you think a person on a vegan diet can get his nutrients – Protein, Calcium?

Can athletes get sufficient proteins?

Can calcium be got without milk?

Milk and its products are a necessity these days. Is there a way to produce more milk without harming cows or injecting oxytocin. How to bridge the gap between supply and demand?

Plants produced today are equally contaminated with pesticides etc so how can you say vegan is healthier?

Are vegan products easily available in the market in India?

Taste gratification is an issue for me. I don’t think there is anything as tasty and chicken or paneer in a vegan diet.

How would you address these concerns?

Would you not agree that veganism is a fad and an attempt to ape the West especially since most Indians are not aware of viable substitutes for nutrients derived from meat and milk products

For centuries people have been drinking milk from cows. It is a fact that nutrients required by humans is different than other species. Maybe man is different because of this. Is it necessary to compare us to other animals?

If milk were less cruel would you advocate it? In my hometown several cows are not treated cruelly.

Is it possible for the whole world to be vegan or vegetarian? Are you not pushing for the impossible?

Is Euthanasia an acceptable solution?

How do people who live in the Tundra or in Africa where cultivation is so expensive survive on a vegan diet

Humans are omnivores. We can survive on animal and plant based diet?

Don’t plants feel pain as much as animals do?

Will we not deplete forests if everyone became vegetarian?

YouTube Preview Image YouTube Preview Image