What do you get when you mix a slice of beef in ground pork marinated in wine and served on lent ? Secularism. That's what you get. Again what do you get when you serve beef/pork/wine alone dressed in saffron or green salad salted with copious media? Sensationalism.
Even before George Orwell wrote Animal Farm and Linnaeus established taxonomy we have classified animals based on religion and our convenience. We then subdivided animals in a religion to desirable and undesirable ones. Desirable mean either that you desire to eat it or you desire to worship it. I know its confusing, for example The Cow; many people desire to worship it, while The Goat who incidentally is the poor man's cow, is desired by all to be eaten. Ironic isn't it? Coming to the undesirable animals, The Pig is a legendary undesirable animal to a huge population while an even larger population hogs it (pun intended).
What makes an animal desirable or not? If you ponder this question multiple theories sprouts. Firstly let's assume that with a dentition suitable for tearing flesh and grinding tubers along with a digestive system that can burn both animal and plant matter we men are made to consume every other living being on this planet. So dear veggies stand still while we eat you if the occasion demands it. With that being clear, let's consider which animal is to be eaten and which to be avoided. All animals irrespective of what your holy book says is made of the same dumb amino acids folded to form peptides which in turn forms polypeptides and themselves join to form proteins. Gel in a bit of fat and and some other stuff you get the corpse of an animal. Oh don't be that grossed out. That finger licking good snack you just had was just the corpse of a chicken. Once this corpse moves down through your mouth towards the poop tube, the reverse action occurs. That is the proteins become polypeptides to peptides and back to amino acids which get absorbed by your body to build, wait for it, yes again proteins for your body. Lets for the convenience call this the protein cycle, and btw I am not making this up; I am something like a doctor, so I know stuff. So dear reader now you know that all animals you eat or you yourself if got eaten by an animal is nothing but a source of amino acid. True, you can get that from plants, but who wants to snack on a lettuce or have aviyal as touchings with vodka?
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| Pork Masala |
Moving on to serious stuff, Its is widespread knowledge that Muslims avoid pork, Hindus avoid cow/beef while my Christian friends enjoy both of them. My knowledge on this topic is either from Wiki pages or from personal experience, both of which are notoriously unstable, so if you find this bullshit, make sure to plaster it to a wall which gets ample sunshine, make dung cakes and let us light it when the power goes out. Hindus according to the Wiki page 'Diet in Hinduism' is supposed to follow the Jhatka/Chatka meat which is procured from an animal that has been killed by a single strike of a sword or axe to sever the head. And in Rig Veda, the meat of cattle and horses are said to be prohibited. A deeper google search also revealed that Hindu's are supposed to avoid the meat of any animal that feeds on other animals. That sounds pretty sane as the fellow's back then must have foreseen our present excessive pesticide use and chances of biomagnification.
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| Beef Fry |
Then I moved on to the Wiki page 'Islamic dietary laws' and I found that forbidden are meat from animals that die of themselves, blood, the meat of swine (porcine animals, pigs), and animals dedicated to other than Allah. I know my research is shallow and anecdotal at the best, but I never came across the command in either of these religion (or at least those Wiki pages) that say you need to force others to follow your diet plan or make them change theirs let alone lynch them for such an offence.
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| Sepoy Mutiny |
Back in the school days I remember that the Sepoy Mutiny or the First War of Independence was triggered with the introduction of a rifle that used both pig and cow fat for lubrication. That war shook the nation and bloodied the nose of the mighty East India Company. Back to the future, we find ourselves in the same predicament. The politics of the plate can have a significant out come in the coming elections, and everyone wants a piece of that pie. Poll tricks is what politicians do and power is what they crave. And to crave for more is human nature and when the craving reaches threshold, we find Orwell's pigs living among us and within us. The role of media either print, visual, social or anti-social too in fanning hatred for TRP is akin to the sewage that feeds our inner porcine. What one eats must be his and his alone choice and to be offended by a sausage or a steak is you being an insult to your own religion.
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Pssss +...... I am a vociferous nationalist yet I feel that the death of Akhlaq, whether it was a planned act of malice or a crime of passion must have been avoided. The taint of his blood will dull the sheen of India how much ever we digitize or polish it.
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