My Pensieve

[Straight dump from my Brother's mail... both me and my brother, M Deepak,
will love your comments...]

[update: i thought i should clarify this. the thoughts below are my brother's and I do not agree to
all his points or some of his arguments, though I believe in the virtues of vegetarianism. I decided to
carry this in my blog to listen to what my friends had to say about this.]

You know, no one can claim to be a vegetarian actually...

These vegetarians make a big issue out of everything

 

They scrutinisingly go through the ingredients and say, 'ah! this contains animal fat! I wont have it!'. even we do it right. These vegetarians think that they become demoralised or something if they take something which contains animal fat. They think taking animal fat is bad. It is not true.

 

Everyone takes Cows milk...what do you think is there in cows milk? carrots or animal fat?! But, we know that even in ancient india, milk was used... so non-vegetarianism was perfectly alllowed!! Then why make such a big fuss about only fats from certain animals?

 

The answer is simple. Even though Ancient Indian Civilisation allowed fat consumption, it never allowed killing of any living entity. We get cows fat without killing it. So its perfectly alright. But you cant get chicken fat without killing it ... so it is not alright!

 

Some one may say then what abour vegetables? arent we killing them. The answer is a big NO!! The apple tree doesnt die when we take an apple from it! Even the rice that we take, at the time of harvest the plant is already dead! We are not killing any plants! So what about carrots and stuff like that? Well the answer is that the plant has reached it maturity and it can be taken. How do we know it? If you dont pluck it, it will decay! Only a dead thing decays! So, even there there is no killing!

 

Usually, when we tell a non-vegetarian to stop eating meat, the first and immediate response will be, 'plant is also a living being. why are you killing plants?'. The most apt answer for such arrogant people is that,'if killing of living beings is allowed, why dont you kill your mother and eat. After all she is also a living entity! why you descriminate?you say, plant lives you can eat, chicken lives you can eat, so in the same line why dont you eat your mother?'. We must use our power of descrimination. Meat is not the food for us. See, there is a law of nature. Tiger will never eat veg. Monkey will never eat non-veg. We humans as big brothers of other entities, being on top of the food chain/ecology, must protect others and take only what is recommended for us.