INDIA: Non-vegetarian ingredients to be declared on all food packaging and publicity
By just-food.com editorial team | 28 September 2001
Further to just-food.com's March story (http://www.just-food.com/news_detail.asp?art=28386&app=1), the Government has notified that effective 4 October, all food intended for direct consumption and containing any non-vegetarian (including eggs) ingredient will have to be marked with a symbol on all packaging, publicity, pamphlets etc.
The symbol, a brown circle inside a rectangle, will guard against inadvertant consumption by India's vegetarians. Approximately 40% of Indians are totally vegetarian, and a further large percentage is largely so. Even non-vegetarian Hindus follow certain festivals and periods which amount to about 40 days a year, during which they totally abstain from meat.
By Navroz Havewala, just-food.com correspondent
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Embryo, foetus, is the name given to the fertised egg in a females womb which when delivered will be a new individual. scientifically it has 2 sets of chromosomes.
Animal Egg is the same case , it has 2 sets of chromosomes and the new offspring will hatch out of the egg after a stipulated time..
Guys now decide what is the difference between a foetus and a egg...
isn't is similar to eating a foetus..
Veg india said at 6:50 am, August 16, 2012
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