Banning beef in India has become a contentious isue and many people are shouting that many communitiues in India eat beef. Spare a thought and think that 56 nations in the world have banned pork. They alsio have many pork eaters like Coptic Christians, never the less pork is banned.
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The importance of cow has gone down significantly in rural India. No longer are farmlands being tilled by cow, it is tractors which are doing the job. The hide of cows is replaced by man made fibres like nylon, acrylic, polyester in making of shoes. Cow dung is increasingly being replaced by cooking gas/solar cookers thus eliminating use of cow dung.Cow urine is used in a very minor medicines in some Ayurvedic medicines as was clarified by Patanjali. The cow was a useful animal in the earlier economy which has since progressed very far. In earlier economy protection to cow was necessary because of its economic importance and the best way was to ban its eating on religious grounds. However today the scenario has totally changed. The only reason today ban on beef is sought is more to do with taking political benefit of appearing to be taking care of the majority religion because of the perceived propaganda that previous govt was taking care of minority religion feelings. Except 4 or 5 states cow slaughter is banned in all other states. Cant these few states be tolerated by modern day Singhs and Babus
rambabu wrote:How about Some Christians who eat pork in India ?
Not only Christians but also Hindus like to eat the flesh of pigs. But Muslims do not touch or eat pork. Eating pork is against Islam. Like Muslims, Jewish people are also against eating pork because pigs are not antelope.
Jincy Aby wrote:rambabu wrote:How about Some Christians who eat pork in India ?
Not only Christians but also Hindus like to eat the flesh of pigs. But Muslims do not touch or eat pork. Eating pork is against Islam. Like Muslims, Jewish people are also against eating pork because pigs are not antelope.
Yes. Now I under stood all about what you said. I owe my thanks to Mr. M.G Singh for clarifying the issue.
India is a country with diversity. Different people of different religion are living in India since long. So full ban of something in India is hard and the politician are playing their vote bank politics through religion, it becomes harder to take some decision. But cow is related to majority people of India, so banning of cow slaughter is a good step, but its complete ban is not possible without political will.
It is a Hindu Rashtra. Hindus are in majority.And cow is the most venerated and respected animal. Cow plays an important role in farming. In Hindu mythologies and Vedas you can see its reference. Setting aside the majority Hindu sentiments and allowing Cow slaughter is something that cannot be tolerated.
rambabu wrote:Cow was elevated to divinity in the Rig Veda. Indian society has addressed the Cow as Gowmata. Thousands of names in our country are cow related. Cow is well known as Annapoorna. In the year 2003, the National Commission on cattle under justice G.M Lodha submitted to the NDA government. The report said clearly said stringent laws should be implemented i order to protect Cow in the interests of rural economy.
During the first war of independence in 1857, Bahadur Shah was installed as emperor by the Hindus in Delhi. His Hindu Prime Minister, on the proclamation of the Emperor Cow Killing as a Capital offense.
Unfortunately in the present days, we are witnessing cows are being neglected and left in the streets leading to Road accidents. These pathetic conditions are to removed first by the Present Government.
Here is an interesting article by Subramanian Swamy.
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/importance_of_the_cow_in_vedic_culture.htm
First thing banned of beef or pork is not possible in India. Cow is not only important for rural economy it is important for whole country. The future is of organic farming and with cow ( Indian cow ) it is not possible. Cows are neglecting it is right but cause behaind it is cows of alien breeds. Second thing cows which are watching on roads are not cows they are ox. Alien breeds ox is not useful animal.
If Cow is being worshiped , as is being argued here , it is the duty of the individuals or the society to care for it even when it is not useful to the person anymore or when it is old and needs to be looked after. A society like ours is all talk about duty and high morals but when it comes to action it is a big zero. So, ban or no ban should be done according to the needs of the society rather than bring in lame arguments about our great heritage and cow worship, which sounds ridiculous with context to a selfish society like ours ! We dont even respect and look after our elders as they should be ..
From what I know, anil is not rigid in his views and he is probably saying that a ban is what most people want for more practical reasons !
People have different reasons for wanting a ban on cow slaughter - one of my friends , a catholic whose family loves to having their Sunday Roast Beef and Pork is all for the ban because according to her, the quality of beef you get here is very bad because cows are not bred for meat but slaughtered only when they have lost their usefulness in every way when they are old . She feels if there is a ban, the government might make alternative arrangements for beef eaters by importing beef from other countries where the quality of the beef will be better !
usha manohar wrote:From what I know, anil is not rigid in his views and he is probably saying that a ban is what most people want for more practical reasons !
People have different reasons for wanting a ban on cow slaughter - one of my friends , a catholic whose family loves to having their Sunday Roast Beef and Pork is all for the ban because according to her, the quality of beef you get here is very bad because cows are not bred for meat but slaughtered only when they have lost their usefulness in every way when they are old . She feels if there is a ban, the government might make alternative arrangements for beef eaters by importing beef from other countries where the quality of the beef will be better !
Yes it is right that cow which are send to slaughter house have many diseased, they eat polythens.
anil wrote:usha manohar wrote:From what I know, anil is not rigid in his views and he is probably saying that a ban is what most people want for more practical reasons !
People have different reasons for wanting a ban on cow slaughter - one of my friends , a catholic whose family loves to having their Sunday Roast Beef and Pork is all for the ban because according to her, the quality of beef you get here is very bad because cows are not bred for meat but slaughtered only when they have lost their usefulness in every way when they are old . She feels if there is a ban, the government might make alternative arrangements for beef eaters by importing beef from other countries where the quality of the beef will be better !
Yes it is right that cow which are send to slaughter house have many diseased, they eat polythens.
When a cow stops yielding milk, people generally leave it. Because these abandoned cows are useless, the expenditure on its fodder is a burden. But, there are many Cow caring centers in India, which take care of such abandoned cattle, instead of sending them to slaughter houses. As regards the importing of Beef by Government for beef lovers it is not possible as most of the states barring very few banned Cow slaughter.
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