Why Kerala has no beef with beef.

[Levina]

When BJP could win in J&K,Kerala is no big deal.

we will wait and watch....at this speed BJP might loose ground in states which it thought were its citadels.

 

[ravi kiran]

Christians have given much to the country. And they still stand with India despite some horrid comments around here...


Can you qoute the exact, full thing I posted so everyone can get an idea what you just did with my post?



Jinnah was staunchly secular. He didn't want Pakistan becoming a mullah republic and everyone can see how that went. We are engaged in a problem we just don't seem to be able to fix. If you want to go down that route then go. But we muslims of Lucknow will rebel if that happens. Already some people in these parts are made to feel as they aren't citizens of India. I remember even a case where a Hindu converted to Islam here in the gulf and his citizenship was cancelled. These kinds of things may push muslims and christians to the brink.



Ahem Ahem. Didn't an RSS man kill Gandhi. And BJP is allied to such group?

i am not against any minority but they should not expect any special treatment.

it does not matter whether Mr.Jinnah was secular or not. what matters is he divided country in the name of religion. you are free to rebel. you were given separate land for Muslims then what are you doing here?? partition is not finished yet....

godase had nothing to do with RSS. court and government have given clean cheat to RSS.

 

[gau8av]

Yeah I know about that. Those ultranationalists are relics of the past.. not capable to understand or accept the working of our globalized world.

Most of them are uneducated and jobless losers without any success in life or hooligans anyways...


PS: Funny how those supah dubah morally correct bigots are not able to answer to my points

yup, resident 'hinduism' ke thekedaar idiots also not replying to my points

anyway, the silver lining in all this chaos is that at least imo, he's looking to push an industrialization, infra, business etc agenda rather than a shudh religious one..

I'm down with that, you should be too

 

[ravi kiran]

Your simple and narrow minded world view is astonishing and simply put: Pitiful.

I am not going to "discuss" with idiots of your magnitude. I have every right to raise my voice and thats guaranteed by the constitution.

you have nothing to answer 4 of your brothers gone to Syria to join ISIS 1 was found operating ISIS twitter account in bengluru...only god knows how many more are still in country.

p.s. i would prefer to be idiot than traitor.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Long before chilly beef there was beef fry . No fancy slices stir fried in soya sauce and tossed in ajinomoto, just Kerala jerky , dark and brooding, promising to make men of cowboys. And no less tasty in the bargain.

If you were Hindu and lucky , there was neighbouring Jose's house to walk into on Easter or on the feast day of St George's Forane Church to gorge on appam and beef roast. You tucked into so much of the choice veal swimming in thick g ravy that ammachi, the granny who never called beef by any other name, ambled over and exclaimed: "Carry on son, but don't forget the pudding is also waiting".

Beef has long been the king of the table in Kerala, and for the simple reason that it is appetizing. It accounts for more than 40% of all meat consumed in the state. Around 80% of the people here regularly eat beef, not just in Christian and Muslim homes, and not just the rich either. There are no precise figures, but there is enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that more Hindus could be eating it re gularly than Christians and Muslims put together.

Of course, cultural osmosis has had a major role to play in this. Muslims, Christians and Hindus in Kerala have coexisted fraternally. The miseries that Tipu's hordes inflicted or the few mud forts that Vasco da Gama's cannons demolished have been the extent of the civilizational conflict here.

Cuisines in Kerala have migrated from one kitchen to another, back and forth. Nobody here had any Holy Grail to pursue and the cow, before manufactured identities were forced on Malayalis, was not attributed anything beyond what a man could stomach. Yet, as George Orwell reminds us, "Some animals are more equal than others". Hindus in the state may not venerate the cow as much as they do in other parts of our country, but it has always been seen as a benign creature, companionable, even sentient. Beef wasn't exactly forbidden fruit in Kerala but, among Hindus, it was certainly a guilty pleasure. If taste accounted for beef 's popularity, it was caste taboos that provided the transgressive element, making it all the more appetizing.

These days, beef in Kerala comes attractively packaged and of exotic provenance -from Texas, Australia, and even Argentina. Steaks and burgers complete the process of distancing the consumer from the farm or factory, making any residual guilt or caste taboo redundant.

However, such wilful forgetting or distancing, Jonathan Safran Foer argues in his thought-provoking book Eating Animals, is dangerous because our foods are intimately connected to our stories, ones linked to our survival as individuals and as communities. These stories are what prevent most humans from, say , consuming dogs or why many others consider pork or beef taboo. To make too much of these stories, as the Maharashtra ban on the sale, consumption or possession of beef does, would, of course, be atavistic, but to totally ignore them would instead be, Foer contends, suicidal to our wellbeing as humans.

Remember that when you tuck into Kerala style beef fry next time -the real thing, not the buff but the cow. It will make it all the more tastier. For, as at least one religion assures us, any food -even the holy cow -when eaten lovingly becomes the flesh and blood of god.Transubstantiated. Amen.


Why Kerala has no beef with beef - The Times of India

Congragulations @Guynextdoor2 for getting your article published in ToI.


@MokshaVimukthi @SarthakGanguly @Screambowl @NKVD @wolfschanzze @Soumitra @Marxist @nair @itachiii @IndoCarib @Iggy .Don't forget to congratulate our fellow poster @Guynextdoor2 for getting published in ToI.


And do quote other posters too.

I am a cow. Please don't eat me. :'(

Sadly for mallus Federal Government is going to implement a nation wide ban on cow slaughter
Beef ban: PMO seeks Law Ministry’s opinion on cow slaughter ‘model bill’ | The Indian Express

Sounds like I will be safe.

 

[haviZsultan]

gandhi was no saint, wonder if he's turning in his grave with some white lolita ?

jinnah the 'evil genius' kaffir western lawyer who liked his drink also worked for feudal interests in what is now modern day Pakistan..

these guys are propaganda hype

cu next month if this gets me banned lol

That shouldn't be said but I respect your views because I have seen hatred for Jinnah far worse than this on a particular forum. But I feel Indians have been raised on hatred for Jinnah and have not studied what made Jinnah the ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity. He also defended in Hindu in court.

 

[Bitter Melon]

unlike most of indian we hidden gold and other valuable treasure in temple thats how intlegent we kearlites are

It was the non-beef eating Hindus of Kerala who hid the gold. Now that they became beef eaters and lost their brain, the temple gold is being stolen. Also there is much treasure elsewhere in India too, just hidden just like how PS temple gold was hidden for all these years.

 

[itachiii]

That shouldn't be said but I respect your views because I have seen hatred for Jinnah far worse than this on a particular forum. But I feel Indians have been raised on hatred for Jinnah and have not studied what made Jinnah the ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity. He also defended in Hindu in court.

most Indians are raised with no Idea of who jinnah is...... our history books has very ltl info abt partition and I was surprised when I got to know that bangladesh was once part of pakistan..

 

[SarthakGanguly]

That shouldn't be said but I respect your views because I have seen hatred for Jinnah far worse than this on a particular forum. But I feel Indians have been raised on hatred for Jinnah and have not studied what made Jinnah the ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity. He also defended in Hindu in court.

Very few Indians know about Jinnah. We are not taught about him, except that he was the founder of Pakistan. There is a mention of Pakistan Resolution but none of the Direct Action Day or anything like that... There is no mention of riots or anything. Jinnah is not discussed even in this country.
Very few hate him...

lets accept this fact that animal sacrifice was a part of hinduism

Of course it was. And we have (and should) move away from it. God created us all, sacrificing one of God's creations to satisfy God is rather ridiculous.

and my every hindu friend eats beef.

Still makes your friends non Muslim, but does not make Hindus non Hindu.

 

[ravi kiran]

Very few Indians know about Jinnah. We are not taught about him, except that he was the founder of Pakistan. There is a mention of Pakistan Resolution but none of the Direct Action Day or anything like that...
Very few hate him...

history should be taught in our schools about partition. who doesnt learn history become thekedars of secularism like many in this thread.

 

[Levina]

Of course it was. And we have (and should) move away from it. God created us all, sacrificing one of God's creations to satisfy God is rather ridiculous.

Thanks for confirming it!
Wolfyy was in a complete denial mode today, infact he's somebody who comes with good arguments (however brusque those may be), but today he's come with some really vacuous points.
I am wondering if its really @wolfschanzze operating his account??

 

[MokshaVimukthi]

@MokshaVimukthi now here
those are not troll. we are talking on pure secular, under constitution and scientific reasons

That article is nothing but a Propaganda pieced by one of the usual suspects of "seculars' who think defying Hinduism somehow makes them more secular. There is nothing more retarded than that.

Roughly 80% of Kerala is Non Veg. Of that 46 % is Muslims and Christians. Hindus constitute 54 % of which 20% are Pure Vegetarians. The rest of the 35 % of Hindus are non Vegetarians. (Fish + Chicken)

Now since only 40% of the population eat Beef, it is clear that its only the Muslims and Christian who consume beef regularly. In fact we can say that 6% of christians and muslims do not eat beef either.


This article is proof that Majority of Kerala Hindus DO NOT EAT BEEF.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Remember what Vivekananda said to raise india in the world level. It is 3 B's

Its beef bicips and bagavad gita.

Provided you promise to reach Moksha when the desire for Rajashik food will automatically disappear. Fair enough?

Thanks for confirming it!
Wolfyy was in a complete denial mode today, infact he's somebody who comes with good arguments (however brusque those may be), but today he's come with some really vacuous points.
I am wondering if its really @wolfschanzze operating his account??

May be he was talking about scriptures strictly. I was talking about practices which may or may not have been drawn from the faith.

 

[takeiteasy]

Christian marriages must be now boycotted as it offends both Muslims and Hindus. Both Pork and Beef are served

 

[SarthakGanguly]

history should be taught in our schools about partition. who doesnt learn history become thekedars of secularism like many in this thread.

True. A 101 guide to the Partition will fix this country in no time. Also a short course on the Rule of the Tipus, Nizams, Aurangzebs, Qasims etc.