According to section four of the proposed bill, no person shall slaughter or intentionally kill any cattle. The definition of cattle in the bill includes cow, calf, bull, bullock, and buffalo. Section five of the proposed bill prohibits sale, use and possession of beef.
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I love beef as much as the next guy, but this is wrong on so many levels! I know the points I’m about to raise aren’t the reasons for this proposition, but they’re my guesses for reasons why some people might see this as a good thing…
- We’re omnivores. Get used to it already.
We learnt it in school: tigers are carnivores, elephants are herbivores, humans are omnivores. It’s raging against the natural order of things to be vegetarian, and although that’s actually a separate discussion, this is as good a time as any to bring it up. You can’t go around living on nuts and soya, as much as I can’t on just meat. There’s a balance based on billions of years of evolution that you are trying to change in a single lifetime. - I’m not against PeTA or anything. Being humane to animals is great, and mass production for human consumption is almost like cheating – almost because, tigers have claws and teeth, we have brains and machines. Still, raising cattle/poultry, or anything sentient really, in a cramped environment, bred to be slaughtered, is not fair game and I’ll back the whole free-range thing all the way. But shit, there’s an ecosystem that needs stability, and we are part of it! We’re animals. We are. Stop trying to save a planet you’re simply a tiny part of by over compensating for past mistakes.
- This is without a doubt religious, and will be backed by religion, and we’re in a Hindu heavy country. But please, give the constitution a quick brush through and have the secular debate in your head. Note: If we’re headed for division by religion, and region (most recently, Maharashtra‘s troubles), hopefully we see this head to some serious disorder and chaos and things get stirred up for realz!
- There’s money at stake. Lots of it. With cows only good for milk, cows that don’t provide, or don’t provide enough, and can’t be killed, will be left to fend for themselves. And going by the way we’ve destroyed any potential natural habitat, they’ll just die of “natural causes”. Bulls, of course, will be sperm factories and therefore you’ll only need one for every couple of thousand cows (close to the case already) and the male/female ratio will be thrown so far out of whack that Mother Nature’s only discourse will be to get baked and sing songs: hippie style.
- I really like steak.
- And burgers.
- With farmers no longer wanting cows (dry ones anyway), and nowhere for them to go, those 3 cows you see at that empty plot everyday is going to turn into 40. Guess what that means for traffic? And shit on the streets…
I think I’m out.
Go out/stay in, but eat lots of beef for the foreseeable future. It could potentially be the last chance you have. At the very least, you’d have eaten beef, so either way – win!
Truthfully, I’m pretty sure I’m way off and this is all bullshit (meh) but hey, nothing’s ever too far from anarchy, and one can always hope. Bring back the Sex Pistols.
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Apart from shit on the streets, the air would also be much cleaner. Apparently there is a huge hole in the ozone layer above Argentina caused by excessively flatulent cattle. And for more interesting reading on how we can do our bit to save the planet innovatively- eating cows is a ‘prime'(pun unintended) way- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3636172/If-you-want-to-be-green-kill-a-cow.html
Nice article. Logic makes so much sense!
I wonder however, if stupidity is nature’s balance system and whether the world would go to shit if humans were intelligent.