Is Hinduism a vegetarian religion?

India is a country of diversified spiritual and religious practices. There are many types of worship in Hinduism. There is a particular way of worship for every kind of person in Hinduism. There are vedic and tantric cultures. There are peaceful, intense and fierce practices of innumerous deities. Vedic type of rituals are more pacific and tantric rituals are forbidden from the commoner society as they are very extreme practices. Tantric rituals and very little vedic fire rituals recommend consumption of meat. These are very objective rituals which make the way for non-materialistic or mindful rituals.

However India is the country which has the highest number of Vegetarians.