Vegetarians would prefer not to be compelled to eat meat. Yet the reverse compulsion (强迫) is hidden in the proposals for a new plant-based “planetary diet.” Nowhere is this more visible than in India.
the reverse compulsion = Meat Eater would prefer not to be compelled to eat meat vegetarian diet
Nowhere is this more visible than in India. 否定比较级 表肯定
Earlier this year, the EAT Lancet Commission released its global report on nutrition and called for呼吁 a global shift to a more plant-based diet and for “substantially reducing consumption of animal source foods.” In countries like India, that call could become a tool to aggravate an already tense political situation and stress already undernourished营养不良的 populations.
The EAT report presumes that “traditional diets” in countries like India include little red meat, which might be consumed only on special occasions or as minor ingredients in mixed dishes.
In India, however, there is a vast difference between what people would wish to consume and what they have to consume because of innumerable barriers around class, religion, culture, cost, geography, etc. Policymakers in India have traditionally pushed for a cereal-heavy “vegetarian diet” on a meat-eating population as a way of providing the cheapest sources of food.
Currently, under an aggressive Hindu nationalist government, Muslims, Christians, disadvantaged classes and indigenous当地的，本地的 communities are being compelled to give up their traditional foods.
None of these concerns seem to have been appreciated by the EAT-Lancet Commission’s representative, Brent Loken, who said “India has got such a great example” in sourcing protein from plants.
But how much of a model for the world is India’s vegetarianism? In the Global Hunger Index 2019, the country ranks 102nd out of从...里面 117. Data from the National Family Health Survey indicate that only 10 percent of infants of 6 to 23 months are adequately fed feed的过去式.
Which is why calls for a plant-based diet modeled on效仿 India risk offering another whip with which to beat already vulnerable communities in developing countries.
risk doing sth.
offering another whip with which to beat already vulnerable communities in developing countries.
which = another whip
to beat already vulnerable communities in developing countries with another whip 不定式结构做whip的后置定语
A diet directed针对 at the affluent West fails to recognize that in low-income countries undernourished children are known to benefit from the consumption of milk and other animal source foods, improving cognitive functions, while reducing the prevalence流行 of nutritional deficiencies缺陷 as well as mortality死亡率.
EAT-Lancet claimed its intention was to “spark引发 conversations” among all Indian stakeholders. Yet vocal critics of the food processing industry and food fortification防御工事 strategies have been left out of the debate. But the most conspicuous omission may well be the absence of India’s farmers.
The government, however, seems to have given the report a thumbs-up. Rather than addressing chronic hunger and malnutrition through an improved access to wholesome and nutrient-dense foods, the government is opening the door for company-dependent solutions, ignoring the environmental and economic cost, which will destroy local food systems. It’s a model模式 full of danger for future generations.
access to 获取，接近 to是介词
access to 有权... access是名词，to是不定式
