India Cities Ban Eggs, showcasing the tensions around the country’s rising Hindu nationalist movement

[waz]

Eggs are a danger to humanity good on Gujarat.

 

[letsrock]

This is INTERNET which is beyond geographical boundaries.
Admins can take action for any inappropriate posts. In this case, your post (which is reflecting your mental state) should be acted against but I dont expect it.
Keep your mental vomit inside you. Not everyone is like you.

So it is INTERNET when you choose to come, read and post in PDF but not internet when someone here posts a news article about india ?

 

[vishwambhar]

Though I'm a hard-core vegetarian because of my family I have always respected other people diet..... I recollect of ordering non vegetarian food for my Thai friend in my strict vegetarian house..... Off course it was in the absence of my parents.....

But coming to the topic..... Some Hindus in India make a big issue of such things..... I mean common grow up you can't force vegetarianism on other people...... it's a personal choice or the way you have grown up.....

If someone ask me on this topic I will only say no hindu, muslim or catholic is designed to eat non vegetarian food..... Do we have jaws and claws like those non vegetarian hunter animals??? No absolutely no..... But this doesn't mean I will not respect their eating habits....

 

[letsrock]

Though I'm a hard-core vegetarian because of my family I have always respected other people diet..... I recollect of ordering non vegetarian food for my Thai friend in my strict vegetarian house..... Off course it was in the absence of my parents.....

But coming to the topic..... Some Hindus in India make a big issue of such things..... I mean common grow up you can't force vegetarianism on other people...... it's a personal choice or the way you have grown up.....

If someone ask me on this topic I will only say no hindu, muslim or catholic is designed to eat non vegetarian food..... Do we have jaws and claws like those non vegetarian hunter animals??? No absolutely no..... But this doesn't mean I will not respect their eating habits....

So you also couldn't do it openly. Thats exactly what is happening here. you are really no different except you type too many words to confuse readers in to thinking you are somehow a "better hindu".

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

If someone ask me on this topic I will only say no hindu, muslim or catholic is designed to eat non vegetarian food..... Do we have jaws and claws like those non vegetarian hunter animals??? No absolutely no.....

Nothing scientific about what you wrote. Hindu, Muslim, Catholic are from the human species which is naturally omnivore.

The Evolution of Diet Could eating like our ancestors make us healthier? www.nationalgeographic.com

"Eating meat is thought by some scientists to have been crucial to the evolution of our ancestors’ larger brains about two million years ago. By starting to eat calorie-dense meat and marrow instead of the low-quality plant diet of apes, our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, took in enough extra energy at each meal to help fuel a bigger brain. Digesting a higher quality diet and less bulky plant fiber would have allowed these humans to have much smaller guts. The energy freed up as a result of smaller guts could be used by the greedy brain, according to Leslie Aiello, who first proposed the idea with paleoanthropologist Peter Wheeler. The brain requires 20 percent of a human’s energy when resting; by comparison, an ape’s brain requires only 8 percent. This means that from the time of H. erectus, the human body has depended on a diet of energy-dense food—especially meat."

 

[FreeFromFear]

So it is INTERNET when you choose to come, read and post in PDF but not internet when someone here posts a news article about india ?

what??? when did I (or anyone else?) objected to posting article about India?
Looks like you have basic understanding issues..

 

[jamahir]

Eggs are the best food, easily digestible and providing nourishment. Until some years ago my weight was under 50 kgs but then I ate two egg parathas a day - of course with mint chutney - for two months and my weight increased by 25 kgs.

Sunday ho ya Monday, roz khao anday.

 

[mike2000 is back]

India Cities Ban Eggs, showcasing the tensions around the country’s rising Hindu nationalist movement
Dec. 13, 2021
Food-cart rules spurred by conservative beliefs draw a backlash, showcasing the tensions around the country’s rising Hindu nationalist movement.
AHMEDABAD, India — The raid came just after sunset. Plainclothes municipal workers swarmed into the busy neighborhood, seizing contraband. The dealers ran or watched helplessly as the authorities took their illicit goods.
And with that, the government had conducted a successful crackdown on eggs.
Not just the eggs themselves, though city officials had confiscated hundreds of trays of those, too. The authorities grabbed everything — gas canisters, bread, vegetables, plates, glasses, stools — that one might need to run a food cart to sell eggs scrambled, fried or wrapped in a fragrant breading. On the curb, only broken shells remained.
The food-cart operators who got away counted themselves lucky to have escaped.
“We found out that the truck was approaching our location,” said Virendra Ram Chandra Singh, who added that he could prepare eggs 156 ways. “We ran home with our carts, pushing hard and fast.”
The place of the humble egg in the street food culture of Gujarat, a state in western India where people take their snacks seriously, has become the latest flash point in the growing role of religion in everyday life. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has a Hindu nationalist base, the national government has taken steps in recent years to promote the religion and to sideline Muslims and other groups.
Emboldened local governments have followed suit, enacting rules in some places that adhere closely to Hindu doctrine. That is especially true in Gujarat, which Mr. Modi led for 13 years before becoming prime minister and which is often seen as a laboratory for pushing policies to reshape India along his Hindu nationalist vision. Those include tightening a ban on alcohol and adding protections against the slaughter of cattle, which many Hindus consider sacred.
But even devout Hindus don’t always agree among themselves what practices the faithful should follow, a conflict that also raises issues of income and class. Hence the bitter disagreement over eggs.
Many Hindus are vegetarian, particularly among the elite within India’s traditional caste system, and some of them consider eggs to be meat products.

Citing complaints from Hindus as well as health concerns, local officials in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s largest city, and at least four other cities in mid-November banned the sale and display of meat, fish and eggs on the street. As the mayor of one city, Rajkot, told the local news media: “Carts with nonvegetarian food can be seen everywhere in the city. The religious sentiments of the people are hurt by this.”

The local authorities weren’t expecting the backlash. In recent days, facing a lawsuit and protests, officials in Ahmedabad relented and allowed sales of previously forbidden food to resume for now, though the dispute is being considered by the courts. They did not respond to requests for comment.

Top leaders with Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, which dominates politics in Gujarat, deflected blame to local officials. “Some people eat vegetarian food,” the state’s chief minister, Bhupendra Patel, told local media. “Some people eat nonvegetarian food. The B.J.P. government does not have any problem with it.”


India has no shortage of feelings about food. Practices vary widely by region and by caste. In the northeastern state of Assam, Hindus tuck into fish tenga curry, a sour and savory treat tempered with tomatoes and elephant apples. In the southern state of Kerala, the appeal of a chicken roast — tender pieces of meat marinated in curd and red chili powder — crosses religious and social lines.

With Hindu nationalism on the rise, food has drawn more headlines. Hundreds of people lost their jobs when one of the B.J.P.-led states in northern India began shutting down slaughterhouses. Muslims accused of slaughtering cows have been lynched by mobs. In the southern state of Karnataka, one Hindu leader has vowed to protest a plan by some local officials to provide eggs for school lunches.

Those beliefs can run counter to India’s economic goals and changing social mores. Consumption of eggs in India has grown substantially in recent years as more families have entered the middle class. They now eat 81 per person per year on average. (Americans average more than twice that.)


The central government hopes eggs will become a growing source of protein. Higher egg consumption could help the country’s troubled farm sector. Government forecasters have called for increased chicken and egg consumption, enough to double farmers’ income and prevent child malnutrition.

India’s egg producers have pushed hard to win over a new generation. In a commercial for egg growers, the nutritional impact of eggs settles a dispute between Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid and Kapil Dev, three legendary Indian cricketers.


The anti-egg campaign amounts to a pushback by conservative Hindus, particularly among the upper caste, who believe that consuming them isn’t conducive to spiritual progress.

“They want people to believe that vegetarian food is the civilized food,” said Ghanshyam Shah, a retired professor of political sociology living in Ahmedabad. “That is part of their old culture.”

Gujarat officials, he said, “have an agenda to make their state a Hindu first state” by dictating a unified cultural and value system.

The ban on eggs certainly had its fans.

Naresh Kansara, an official at a large Hindu temple in Ahmedabad, said that it was wrong to sell nonvegetarian food nearby. “Why don’t they eat at a hotel, away from public view?” he said. “Why so openly?”


Still, the egg ban caused an uproar. The confiscation of carts in November galvanized street vendors, who began protesting outside government offices.

Mr. Singh, the Ahmedabad food cart operator who escaped the November crackdown, migrated from poorer Bihar State in the 1990s during a period of economic liberation. Bit by bit, he built a name for himself on the versatility of his eggs.

Mr. Singh boasts about the egg dishes his customers love the most. There is the John Paratha, a three-egg omelet topped with bread crumbs to make it crispy and stuffed with mayonnaise, cheese, onion, tomato and coriander salad that is rolled up inside a soft Indian bread. Nargis, a dish named after a famous Bollywood actress from the 1960s, is made of a mince of boiled eggs, softened with cream and served with buns and chapatis. The mahi roll masala is a three-egg omelet with cheese, onions, tomatoes and green chilies.

He set up the cart across from a sprawling public park that attracted families and students. Demand led him to hire four employees.

The president of the street vendors’ association in Gujarat, Rakesh Maheriya, said mostly Hindu vendors and customers were being punished. Many vendors are from the lower castes, a large voting bloc, and many Hindu customers were incensed as well.


Dhara Patel, a 20-year-old engineering student who consumed her favorite dish, minced eggs, a few times a week in the roadside stalls near her college, said the meal was her only source of protein.

“Why does the government have a problem if we want to eat eggs?” she said. “It’s also about the livelihoods of those street vendors.”

Though the local government now says coercive action won’t be taken against egg sellers, municipal officials have yet to rescind their ban formally. Vendors said they had been given assurances that they could come back.

Still, along the lakeside road where they once sold their eggs, the number of food carts has dwindled, a sign to them that the egg crackdown is far from over.

“Who knows how long we will be allowed to be here?” Mr. Singh said. “They can do anything, anytime.”

India’s Latest Religious and Cultural Flashpoint: Eggs (Published 2021)

Food-cart rules spurred by conservative beliefs draw a backlash, showcasing the tensions around the country’s rising Hindu nationalist movement.

www.nytimes.com

The level of backwardness in most South Asian countries is incredible. Seems even subsharan africa often does a better job than them in this regard.

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

The level of backwardness in most South Asian countries is incredible. Seems even subsharan africa often does a better job than them in this regard.

With all the international awards Modi has received, the population takes it as affirmation of Hindutva policies and doubles down on it.

 

[thetutle]

Some muslim countries ban the consumption of pork and most western countries ban the consumption of dogs and cats, so yes a country is very capable of dictating what you can eat. What India is doing is just taking it to another level.

I am not a vegetarian but I have kids who have no idea that animals are killed on in industrial scale to feed us and I assure you, when they figure this out at school or from their friends, I will be forced to go vegetarian.

If anyone stops and thinks about what it takes to get al the meat on our plate, I am certain that it will become harder and harder to justify the more you think about it.

I am not even sure its safe to be a vegetarian, especial for kids and their brain development, but I think the future will see more and more vegetarians. In a few generations will be harder and harder to justify eating animals.

 

[jamahir]

I am not a vegetarian but I have kids who have no idea that animals are killed on in industrial scale to feed us and I assure you, when they figure this out at school or from their friends, I will be forced to go vegetarian.

If anyone stops and thinks about what it takes to get al the meat on our plate, I am certain that it will become harder and harder to justify the more you think about it.

I am not even sure its safe to be a vegetarian, especial for kids and their brain development, but I think the future will see more and more vegetarians. In a few generations will be harder and harder to justify eating animals.

Hence the below should be done on industrial scale :

Leonardo DiCaprio invests in two lab-grown meat startups

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defence.pk

 

[Novus ordu seclorum]

Some muslim countries ban the consumption of pork and most western countries ban the consumption of dogs and cats, so yes a country is very capable of dictating what you can eat. What India is doing is just taking it to another level.

I am not a vegetarian but I have kids who have no idea that animals are killed on in industrial scale to feed us and I assure you, when they figure this out at school or from their friends, I will be forced to go vegetarian.

If anyone stops and thinks about what it takes to get al the meat on our plate, I am certain that it will become harder and harder to justify the more you think about it.

I am not even sure its safe to be a vegetarian, especial for kids and their brain development, but I think the future will see more and more vegetarians. In a few generations will be harder and harder to justify eating animals.

Humans are naturally omnivore.

Livestrong.com
"To get all of their amino acids, vegetarians must consume various sources of protein. When you restrict any of the main food groups, you increase your risk of nutrient deficiency. For vegetarians, eliminating meat products poses the increased need to find alternative sources of certain vitamins and minerals. Vegetarians must pay special attention to the following nutrients, according to the Mayo Clinic :
Vitamin B12
Calcium
Iron
Zinc
Iodine
Vitamin D
Omega-3 fatty acids
Protein"

 

[Zee-shaun]

No anday wala burger

Let's call for Anda Jihad.

 

[thetutle]

Humans are naturally omnivore.

Livestrong.com
"To get all of their amino acids, vegetarians must consume various sources of protein. When you restrict any of the main food groups, you increase your risk of nutrient deficiency. For vegetarians, eliminating meat products poses the increased need to find alternative sources of certain vitamins and minerals. Vegetarians must pay special attention to the following nutrients, according to the Mayo Clinic :
Vitamin B12
Calcium
Iron
Zinc
Iodine
Vitamin D
Omega-3 fatty acids
Protein"

Of course. We need the above, and melted fat tastes soooo good. And yes we are naturally omnivores, but we are also thinking beings with compassion. I think in the long run our compassion will win out over our dietary needs, or we will find them elsewhere. I have stopped eating veal (baby cows) some decades ago and I avoid eating young animals. Adult animals seem more acceptable to me.

I can also see myself becoming a vegetarian for weight loss reasons. Vegetables are just not that tasty, so I can see how it will lead to weight loss.

 

[Vapnope]

Though I'm a hard-core vegetarian because of my family I have always respected other people diet..... I recollect of ordering non vegetarian food for my Thai friend in my strict vegetarian house..... Off course it was in the absence of my parents.....

But coming to the topic..... Some Hindus in India make a big issue of such things..... I mean common grow up you can't force vegetarianism on other people...... it's a personal choice or the way you have grown up.....

If someone ask me on this topic I will only say no hindu, muslim or catholic is designed to eat non vegetarian food..... Do we have jaws and claws like those non vegetarian hunter animals??? No absolutely no..... But this doesn't mean I will not respect their eating habits....

I know vegans who eat eggs and drink milk but dont consume meat. I know that Jain don't eggs but others are also doing it?