#meatban

There are 40,000 cows on the streets of Delhi alone,  living off garbage in miserable conditions left to fend for themselves and eventually live and die a slow painful death as a result, which does not worry RSS.

But they wont lose an opportunity to spread rumors on beef consumption to kill other Indians.

Ironically India also happens to be the largest exporter of beef in the WORLD!

An Open Letter to the great Jain community

Dear Members of the Jain community,

You people are wonderful, both Digambars and Shvetambars. I respect with all my heart and stomach the Paryushan Parwa, which serves as a cleansing festival for you and purifies you of all the toxins and deficiencies, contrary to

I have always had a lot of respect for Jains. Many friends of mine over the years who do not eat garlic, ginger, onions and…

By Jaiveer Singh Sidhu (https://medium.com/@jaiveer)

Hypocrisy runs in the very veins of India. Mainstream Indian popular culture is dominated by right and left wingers majorly so there’s no question that sane dissenting individual voices outside the political dichotomy cannot have any impact on the social fabric of India, henceforth hypocrisy thrives in all aspect of the Indian lifestyle which the politicians and pressure groups exploit for their vested interests. The only difference is the talk employed by left and right leaning politicians and pressure groups. Various issues are raised by these power seekers to convince the targeted audience into accepting the enforcement of certain policies whether some other group of common people likes it or not and the implementation of these policies are obviously funded by the forcefully extracted taxpayer money. How can Indians be any less Hippocratic when the very system they enslaved themselves and others into is standing on the pillars of hypocrisy. Slavery works best when the slaves don’t know that they are enslaved and persecute anyone who believes otherwise.

The same hypothesis applies to the neoliberal (socialists disguised as liberals) Indians opposing the meatbans in various places of India (mainly Maharashtra) who a while ago were stern P.E.T.A supporters and the right wingers who wants to ban beef but not pork. The leftists won’t dare to realize that the right wing government was legally able to man meat for that four days due to a Jain festival was because of a Supreme Court ruling of the year two thousand and eight during which the UPA was in power and the right wingers won’t dare to accept the fact that the Jain community never asked for such bans in the first place.    

In reality, pressure groups from both sides of the political spectrum only differ in the things they want to ban for the rest of the populace. Similarly, the meatban controversy is caused and opposed by pressure groups who want to ban everything in conflict with their personal opinions. But when a person who does not believe the rhetoric of either of those groups and says something like “I think that all human interactions should be voluntary and the only condition should be that the personal liberties of both parties cannot be infringed”, people belonging to both rival ideologies speaks in harmony against that person and orders him to banish himself.  

Every time one says “there should be a law”, ”this should be banned” or “we should mandate this” he/she is basically saying that others should not be free to choose what is in their own best interest and that one knows what is best for others and it should be enforced at gunpoint. At that instant, one proves itself to be an enemy of liberty. One is saying that the definition of freedom should be changed to fit his/her personal beliefs at the expense of others’. If someone is not aggressing against another, one should have no interest in their actions. By advocating the controlling of their actions, one is aggressing upon others.                                                                                                                                      -    Anonymous    

I have been reading about this meat ban in Mumbai and all the people losing their heads over this ban and arguing that their freedom of eating what they want is being taken away by this ban and targeting Jains over this issue. People have started trolling about the same and some people have gone to the ridiculous extent of saying that what will you feed the animals in the zoo.

So here is my take on this issue.

For starters, let me clarify that the slaughter and sale of meat is banned in Mumbai for two days as part of a 1994 order issued for the Jain festival of fasting, Paryushan. Four years ago, the ban was extended to four days, which means it’s been there since about 20 years and it’s not a new thing. So people making a fuss about this ban are probably not aware of the history or they willfully chose to ignore things that happen under certain governments. Also if it is a problem now, then it should have been a problem earlier also, why was there no protest over this earlier? People need to think about this before going ballistic over this issue.

Next the people who are targeting Jain’s for imposing their religious beliefs on them clearly don’t know anything about Jainism except for the fact that Jains do not eat onion, garlic and potatoes. So based on this extremely limited knowledge about Jainism, I think it’s wrong to target anyone. So let me put some things in perspective about Jainism.

Jainism is a religion which has non-violence as its core tenant and that is why they do not eat non-veg food. But this non-violence is not only limited to physical violence; it also extends to psychological/mental violence. So if I am forcing someone to do something against their free will, or imposing my ideas on them, then that itself is a sort of violence which any practicing Jain would not do.

Further Jainism is about self-introspection and looking within yourself to try and improve your life and definitely not about forcing someone to follow your beliefs.

Also during Paryushan, Jains say “Micchami Dukadam” which means “If I have, intentionally or unintentionally, in words, deeds or thought, have hurt you any way whatsoever then I ask for your forgiveness”. They ask for forgiveness from everyone irrespective of their cast/creed/eating preference etc. So a Jain asking to intentionally take away the livelihood of some poor person by asking the meat shops remain closed even for a day is something which any person who understands Jainism would not do.

So when it comes to this ban, please note that this was done by some politician just to make his presence felt and nothing else. There has been no Jain organization or a religious head that has come forward supporting this ban because they know that doing so would be wrong as it would be akin to forcibly imposing your ideas and religious beliefs on someone else, which Jains do not believe in doing.

So please stop this mindless targeting of Jain’s and rather target the legislators who have brought about this legislation.

Sonakshi, Sonam Criticise Meat Ban In Mumbai

Sonakshi, Sonam Criticise Meat Ban In Mumbai

Meat Ban in Mumbai for 4 Days

The Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation announced ban on meat in the state on 10th,13th, 17th and 18th September on account of the strictly vegetarian Jains’ festival. Slaughter and sale of mean is prohibited on these four days in Mumbai. The ban led to outrage on Twitter and media. Jain community will observe a religious fast for eight days from Friday. Officials said they demanded the ban as…

The Hindutva propaganda that beef eating in India started with the arrival of Muslims in India is a sheer lie. #meatban

Let’s know what Swami Vivekananda said about beef eating among Hindus in ancient India.

Gujarat government board claims Quran says beef bad for health.

The verse on the billboard has been translated as “Show respect to cows as it is the leader of all bovines. Its milk, ghee and butter have therapeutic properties and its meat is the cause of several diseases’’.

Obsessed with Muslims & Islam…