Food to me is not just 'food' it is more of an 'art'. It is less about cooking and more about how the taste and style blend in with the mood. When I used to study for the dreaded 'IITJEE' my mother used to make my favourite dishes to keep me changa (healthy) and in the best of my moods. It was then that I found out that food could actually make my mood lighter and swing it from bad to good.
But this post is not about how food is important in my life, it is more about the incessant questions of
"Soumabha, why do you eat non-veg? You are harming (actually more like killing) the poor animals..."
But no, I don't feel guilty about butchering these animals and eating them. Yes, it is wrong to kill them, but all I am stating is that I feel quite comfortable with the chicken and the mutton being diced in shops. As far as I am concerned, we rear them in farms and coops and so in no way are we harming the actual population of chickens or any other species. It is quite similar to what vegetarians do with the rice paddy fields or any other crops, they plant it one season and harvest it the next. If we are cruel then so are you !!!
After reading newspapers and some Bhagwad Gita transcriptions ( Quran and Bible allows meat so not going into those ) I have found out that what Lord Krishna says is
"If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it."This excerpt is quite clear but in no place does it mention that eating meat is wrong. If God had so willed that all the species should live harmoniously together then why did he ever put the appetite of non-vegetarianism into our forefathers? As the tiger consumes only meat does it make the least liked species to God? I do not think so...
Scientists say non-vegetarian food doesn't get the required nutrients and a few of my other friends seconded them. Now to all those people with such misconception please know that we are higher up in the food chain and if we don't get nutrients then you veggies should actually be malnourished !!! Why do you think sportsmen are advised to eat non-veg ? The rich protein supplements from fish and meat are necessary for the heavy strain and exercises they go through.
My post doesn't mean that the vegetarians are by any means inferior to non-vegetarians. It just advocates that eating non-veg is just a way of life and shouldn't be looked down upon as something immoral.
