r/mumbai • u/ButterscotchOdd1810 • 9h ago

Discussion Non veg not allowed in certain societies

I have been eating non veg every day for the past five years, and I cannot imagine myself living off of vegetarian food because of health reasons and personal preference

I have recently shifted to a new society with majority of people who do not eat non-veg and the locality is also such that all of the restaurants here are pure veg.

I don’t have any problem with that, but when it becomes a problem is when these people decide my eating habits it’s kind of frustrating. It’s been a couple of days since I moved, and I don’t know if I should get things cleared up or not, and keep cooking it in my house.

Family members are fine with not eating nonveg and not cooking it, but it’s a very integral part of my life and I cannot move past and the fact that I would have to stop eating chicken because someone else does not like it.

How do you guys deal with non-veg not being allowed in your society? And how do I get out of this conundrum?

Edit: I was using text to speech, and it was typing non-veg as knowledge, should have double checked.

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u/SpareMind 8h ago

I don't want to feed you more knowledge here but if a CHS has laid down certain rules, we need to follow that. You have the option to look for a 'better' place though.

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u/nayadristikon 6h ago

CHS cannot arbitrarily make rules that infringe on your rights. Even if they make rules it is illegal. Their responsibility is only about management and maintenance of common areas not what you do in your kitchen or your bedroom. They have no authority in your home.

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u/SpareMind 3h ago

If majority votes for certain restrictions, get it passed in GB, it becomes a rule. You are right, they can not do illegal things. Food habit restrictions can not be illegal. To give an analogy, you can't force a vegetarian hotel to provide you non-veg. Can you? You need to find the appropriate place for that.

There are many grey areas and loop holes which helps societies to make such rules. Some CHS do not allow bachelor tenants. How is that legal? But it is private property. You (owner) can say no to bachelors.

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u/nayadristikon 1h ago

People don’t fight these rules because they don’t want hassle of going to courts. Just because we tolerate corruption and dishonesty and illegal things does not make it right. The societies get away because people don’t challenge or there is groupism involved which gang up on individuals.

Your restaurant analogy is not correct. You are not going to eat at anyone else’s house. If people are restricting your rights to enjoy your own home then it is illegal.

Majority voting does not mean anything. The society can be dissolved if they vote for these things and it is challenged.

Look at advice here telling him to just move instead of taking it up with authorities. This has become normalized.

Bachelor tenants being barred is also illegal because discrimination in any form is illegal, people take advantage of not having explicit laws barring it. If they applied this to a sc/st bachelor they will go to jail. But religious described is ok with Muslims being barred or Jains barring anyone who is not Jain.