On Wednesday 24 Nov 2010 1:33:31 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > On 24 November 2010 12:47, Sriram Karra <ska...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are vegetarians just plain dull?! > > No. They're just prejudiced in my opinon.
I would say meat become inedible and disgusting more rapidly than vegetarian food, particularly in India, It's not for nothing that "culture media" for growing bacteria use some form of animal protein. In fact the specific bacteria that cause "rotting" as well as botulism actully need meat to grow in a culture. Refrigeration became commonplace in India only recently and I still don't believe that cold chains can be trusted. Meat needs to be consumed soon after slaughtering the animal in the absence of refrigeration. Buddhism and the Jainism - both faiths that impacted huge areas of India have played a role in Indian vegetarianism and depite the fact that 60% of Indians do eat meat (once in a while at least) 40% is still 400 million and at 400 million vegetarians in india - that number is still bigger than the population of all countries in the world save China. That should explain the "prejudice" Having said that meat eaing has been made dead easy. If most people still had to slaughter their own meat and get rid of the entrails and offal vegetarianism would get a big boost. Many Indians are "pretend meat eaters" because they will eat, but not toletarte the cooking of meat in their kitchens. I am one of them. Others who do not do this develop an inane sense of superiority imagining that cooking or eating meat gives them brownie points. This attitude is a relic of the "meat eating martial race" logic that was applied to differentiate some Indians from others - usually Muslim versus Hindu. shiv
