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In her book ‘For A Moment of Taste’, former PETA CEO Poorva Joshipura writes about how categorising an animal as ‘food’ changes our view of it. Until we see it being killed.
Poorva Joshipura's 'For a Moment of Taste', by HarperCollins, will be released on 5 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.
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CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
Opinion pieces are good, However folks tend to write pieces about every event… now that may or may not work. In this case it does not. It is an outlier incident and does not make an entire population of a billion odd violent animal killers. An unwarranted opinion piece.
Many Indians gang rape and kill women cruelly. Police are often beating people violently. Thugs are beating & killing violently. Hindu and Muslim are massacre each other. Will these people have slightest mercy on animals?
Cruelty on animals happens in every nations to various degree. India is a large backward country of huge population with thousands of different languages. You can find all sorts of people.
The good Hindu are vegetarian, they don’t even kill insects. The radical RSS & Muslims will slaughter thousands in hatred at slightest rumor.
Overall, in my various visits, India is a nation where animals are largely allowed to roam freely everywhere, like cows, pigs, dogs, monkeys, even rats & snakes are tolerated. Wild elephants & tigers are also protected. Hope India also take good care of its wildlife, esp rare Ganges dolphins.
Oh cmon! It’s insane that we tar an entire nation with such a broad brush! Did you know that India is the only country that has given dolphins the status of non-human persons? In India, hunting is severely restricted, unlike Europe, US, Russia et al. This is a nation of 1.3 billion people, of which 400 million are pure vegetarians and another 600 million eat only eggs and chicken! Every other nation in the world indulges in the massively cruel treatment of billions of chickens, pigs, cows and other living beings just to enjoy meat – we do far less. Even stray dogs – in other ‘advanced’ nations, they are taken to the pound and killed, here they are neutered and left alone.
This is NOT a cruel nation – stop trying to make us feel collectively guilty for the acts of a few idiots!
You know what I think? I think you are seeing acts of cruelty and compassion from a Western lens.
Answer me this:
– if a horse goes lame and you are too poor to feed it, should you kill it or should you release it into the world to fend for itself? Killing is cruel; releasing it is also, but what is less cruel?
– if a stray dog is found in the city, should you take it to the pound and kill it, or should you neuter it and return it back to the streets to fend for itself? Both are cruel but which one is less so?
Are there acts of extreme cruelty in India? Yes! Are they the norm? No! And if you believe otherwise, maybe you need to look at India without judgment.
Not surprising. I have observed that Indians, in general, have very little respect for animals and their right to life. It is a common sight to see kids stoning frogs in pods. It is just as common to see them hound and kill garden lizards. Even more shocking is that the Nilgai(Sambar) in Gujarat is being systematically exterminated, farmers being given permission to use guns to kill these animals because they destroy crops. One tactic they employ in villages is that a group of people hounds a sambar into a narrow alley and then bludgeon it to death. Even the cruel Aurangzeb protected these hapless animals but there is no such animal protection program in place. There is no one to speak up for these Nilgai or to work to create protected reserve for them. I see chickens being handled in a very cruel fashion by those who sell chicken meat. Street dogs are beaten mercilessly simply because they bark. The list is endless. No laws will bring about change is what I feel because parents do not teach children basic values.
Opinion pieces are good, However folks tend to write pieces about every event… now that may or may not work. In this case it does not. It is an outlier incident and does not make an entire population of a billion odd violent animal killers. An unwarranted opinion piece.
Many Indians gang rape and kill women cruelly. Police are often beating people violently. Thugs are beating & killing violently. Hindu and Muslim are massacre each other. Will these people have slightest mercy on animals?
Cruelty on animals happens in every nations to various degree. India is a large backward country of huge population with thousands of different languages. You can find all sorts of people.
The good Hindu are vegetarian, they don’t even kill insects. The radical RSS & Muslims will slaughter thousands in hatred at slightest rumor.
Overall, in my various visits, India is a nation where animals are largely allowed to roam freely everywhere, like cows, pigs, dogs, monkeys, even rats & snakes are tolerated. Wild elephants & tigers are also protected. Hope India also take good care of its wildlife, esp rare Ganges dolphins.
Oh cmon! It’s insane that we tar an entire nation with such a broad brush! Did you know that India is the only country that has given dolphins the status of non-human persons? In India, hunting is severely restricted, unlike Europe, US, Russia et al. This is a nation of 1.3 billion people, of which 400 million are pure vegetarians and another 600 million eat only eggs and chicken! Every other nation in the world indulges in the massively cruel treatment of billions of chickens, pigs, cows and other living beings just to enjoy meat – we do far less. Even stray dogs – in other ‘advanced’ nations, they are taken to the pound and killed, here they are neutered and left alone.
This is NOT a cruel nation – stop trying to make us feel collectively guilty for the acts of a few idiots!
You know what I think? I think you are seeing acts of cruelty and compassion from a Western lens.
Answer me this:
– if a horse goes lame and you are too poor to feed it, should you kill it or should you release it into the world to fend for itself? Killing is cruel; releasing it is also, but what is less cruel?
– if a stray dog is found in the city, should you take it to the pound and kill it, or should you neuter it and return it back to the streets to fend for itself? Both are cruel but which one is less so?
Are there acts of extreme cruelty in India? Yes! Are they the norm? No! And if you believe otherwise, maybe you need to look at India without judgment.
Those people who killed dolphin and a tiger earlier were pure Samajwadis.
Not surprising. I have observed that Indians, in general, have very little respect for animals and their right to life. It is a common sight to see kids stoning frogs in pods. It is just as common to see them hound and kill garden lizards. Even more shocking is that the Nilgai(Sambar) in Gujarat is being systematically exterminated, farmers being given permission to use guns to kill these animals because they destroy crops. One tactic they employ in villages is that a group of people hounds a sambar into a narrow alley and then bludgeon it to death. Even the cruel Aurangzeb protected these hapless animals but there is no such animal protection program in place. There is no one to speak up for these Nilgai or to work to create protected reserve for them. I see chickens being handled in a very cruel fashion by those who sell chicken meat. Street dogs are beaten mercilessly simply because they bark. The list is endless. No laws will bring about change is what I feel because parents do not teach children basic values.
“Not surprising. I have observed that Indians, in general, have very little respect for animals and their right to life. ”
Is that so? I wonder. A sweeping statement , probably a bit irresponsible.
I am an Indian and there are probably 134.99 crore more who are not like what you say. Worth checking.
Dolphin meat is tasty! Tried it in Japan!
Appalling, chilled … words aren’t adequate.
Pure wanton evil is what it is . I think death penalty is not enough but you can’t do worse than them,
Maybe toss them in with tigers and let Mother Nature figure out thums up or down