I’m seeing an interesting parallel between my work gigs on energy transition stuff (fossil fuels + combustion tech to renewables+electricity tech) and personal life efforts to gradually move to a plant-based diet. Cc @vegan @RyanBethencourt
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And if you're talking Indian food: consider that things as basic as potato and chillies in Indian cuisine are American imports. Bengali sweets are all derived from British era cheese introduction. Nan and samosas are foreign foods :D
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As is the tomato - sure. I would be stunned to learn that the cow only became sacred after the Brits imported it. After all, they make their chai the Indian way. ;) seriously though, while not ancient, milk seems vital in South Asia:https://www.ecologise.in/2017/04/17/how-indians-started-drinking-milk-and-what-it-has-cost-us/ …
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Good point. But then shouldn’t we expect the price to drop and access to increase in developing markets? Should these new alternatives be aggressively marketed in the young/developing markets? Kind of like leapfrogging wired Internet access direct to wireless?
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Yes, I think all that will happen. India simply cannot scale animal protein the way the west did a century ago as living standards improve. There's too many people. Sheer economics will drive things towards plant protein, but better quality than beans/legumes.
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