I temporarily gave up meat over the holidays after watching Food Inc., a documentary on how food is produced in America. With particular references to how cattle is mass produced, injected with hormones and then slaughtered, I was so horrified with how they are treated that I couldn’t eat a burger for weeks!Compare that to India, where cows are considered sacred and are free to roam around wherever they want. As a result, you see cows everywhere. On the road, on the sidewalks, on the beaches, at the temples, anywhere. There’s almost no distinction between cows and people, except that the cows probably have a few more rights than people do. You could be lying on a chair on the beach, and a cow will peek its head over your shoulder and start going through your bags. Or be walking on a sidewalk and have it come and push you over.
Funny how one man’s deity is another man’s dinner.
