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Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child, Government of India speaks about being vegetarian. She says, "If you want to or I want to change the world is to start with ourselves and then start with the group nearest to us then start with the religion that we belong to and then go further. Yogi Adityanath, he has become the CM of Uttar Pradesh. He is closing some illegal slaughter houses and its a very welcome step because Uttar Pradesh has more than fifty thousand illegal slaughter houses now we have to make alternative provisions for the animals that are not going to slaughter. It's a very good idea, the problem is it will never happen because both the politicians and the religious leaders in India believe that milk should be drunk. They simply don't see milk as non-vegetarian and they r