How the Government's Restriction of Foods Affects Minorities

Dareena Ganesh

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.60906

How the Government's Restriction of Foods Affects Minorities

Author(s)	Dareena Ganesh
Country	India
Abstract	This study uses qualitative document analysis of case studies in India, Europe, and the United States to examine the effects of government food restrictions on minorities. By explaining and analyzing case studies in India, Europe and USA, the research paper has discovered that these restrictions have led to basic human rights being violated. This incorporates the right to practice religious habits and preferences in types of food that individuals would like to eat. The study specifically reflects on India’s beef ban, EU’s restriction on non-stunned meat, and USA’s issue of Indigenous food sovereignty to highlight the various ways these restrictions take place and the severity of these cases. Additionally, the study pinpoints the intentions of the laws that are created by the governments to understand the numerous purposes of food restrictions. This study is essential to the issue and significance of balancing majority and minority rights, and emphasizes the importance of taking minority opinions, views and preferences into account when creating government systems, actions and laws. The strength of the paper is that it directly addresses the effects of the ban on multiple groups. This connects back to how these food bans are affecting minority groups. Some gaps in this research include that it is more focused on the economic aspect over the government's role in this and it does not connect this to trends that are present across the world.
Keywords	Food Bans, Meat Bans, Minorities, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Indigenous Populations, Religious Beliefs, Religious Discrimination, Right to Freedom of Religion, Value System, Inequality, Lack of Choice and Freedom, Sustainable Development Goals, Government Control and Power, Secular States, Majority Rule, Ritual Slaughter, Food Sovereignty, Multiculturalism, BJP
Field	Sociology > Politics
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-11-22
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.60906
Short DOI	https://doi.org/

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