(At dinner time ... )
X: You always seem to cook only veg dishes.
Me: Oh yeah .. thats what I eat. I am a vegetarian.
X: Oh! On all days ?
Me: eh ????
This is the conversation I come across so often that I am fed up explaining people that a vegetarian is a vegetarian on all days. I thought its quite logical that if any one eats non-veg even once in a blue moon he/she is a non-vegetarian. But no, there are social non-veg eaters (like social smokers or drinkers); also, I came to know that there are many cadres of non-vegetarians too. There are those who eat anything that moves, those who eat anything that moves only in the sea/land, those who seem to have liking towards anything that has only two legs and can't fly more than some feet... the list is long! I have had my quota of friends who are hard core non-vegetarians... but now I am experiencing my share of friends who practice the Christian policy - "Convert!" The best argument was from one of the people in my team. He went about explaining that both animals and plants have life. He continued that plants are like small kids ... they can't defend themselves; which makes it even more a sin to eat them. Phew... I am really glad that chickens and goats defend themselves so well that its only the plants that are not able to run away and become my meal! Well... approximately 10 times of vegetation is necessary to produce 1 kilo of meat. And thats how the largest meat producing countries are blamed to be thoughtless about the nations where a person doesn't get a single meal. But we are not designed to think about others. While I don't seem to mind my friends who eat non-veg continue to do so, I feel extremely sad when I see vegetarians turning into non-vegetarians, for whatever reason. When I see beef being sold on the streets, I feel as if we are killing our own mothers who has fed us her milk, to feast on her flesh and blood.
X: You always seem to cook only veg dishes.
Me: Oh yeah .. thats what I eat. I am a vegetarian.
X: Oh! On all days ?
Me: eh ????
This is the conversation I come across so often that I am fed up explaining people that a vegetarian is a vegetarian on all days. I thought its quite logical that if any one eats non-veg even once in a blue moon he/she is a non-vegetarian. But no, there are social non-veg eaters (like social smokers or drinkers); also, I came to know that there are many cadres of non-vegetarians too. There are those who eat anything that moves, those who eat anything that moves only in the sea/land, those who seem to have liking towards anything that has only two legs and can't fly more than some feet... the list is long! I have had my quota of friends who are hard core non-vegetarians... but now I am experiencing my share of friends who practice the Christian policy - "Convert!" The best argument was from one of the people in my team. He went about explaining that both animals and plants have life. He continued that plants are like small kids ... they can't defend themselves; which makes it even more a sin to eat them. Phew... I am really glad that chickens and goats defend themselves so well that its only the plants that are not able to run away and become my meal! Well... approximately 10 times of vegetation is necessary to produce 1 kilo of meat. And thats how the largest meat producing countries are blamed to be thoughtless about the nations where a person doesn't get a single meal. But we are not designed to think about others. While I don't seem to mind my friends who eat non-veg continue to do so, I feel extremely sad when I see vegetarians turning into non-vegetarians, for whatever reason. When I see beef being sold on the streets, I feel as if we are killing our own mothers who has fed us her milk, to feast on her flesh and blood.
