[Chickensoup]

India is a far more religious country than any western country. And the poor have always had to follow the powerful people’s norms.

[RedHeeler]

Religious? No. Caste driven politically- Yes.

[RedHeeler]

Religious? No. Caste driven politically- Yes.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's a fact of life everywhere, that poor people have to follow powerful people's norms. And not just the poor: all of us have to follow other's norms every day of our lives. Sometimes we take it in stride. Sometimes it's irksome.

But here it borders on a life-and-death issue. These kids already have signs of protein-deficient morbidity: stunted growth, discolored hair (symptom of kwashiorkor), lack of disease resistance, thus at risk not of death from starvation per se, but of whatever the endemic diseases are --- tuberculosis, cholera, other infectious diseases--- that cut down malnourished kids.

FTA, the eggs are available and the kids and their parents have no objection to them. Give them the eggs. People have revolutions over less than this.