My father joked with me as I left India saying " the sacred cow is in India only, not overseas, so enjoy the steaks there". (of course mom was’nt amused) )
Yet the Cow is Sacred in India, and Hindus do not eat beef.
I’ve always wondered if it is a religious requirement or a Social belief.
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or both :)
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What if a cow crosses the border?
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I knew this nepali guy in college, he was a brahmin. Wouldn't even come close to beef.
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loc is more sacred than cows if pakistani slodiers cant hide behind cows while try to cross loc.
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^ Yet another childish talk.:)
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To my knowledge.
If you eat the cow, you are eating the animal..a greater part of the Brahmin (one material).
To eat, vegetables is the lowest part of the brahmin you can 'destroy'.
Is this correct?
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beef is smelly
anyways i saw a woman who said its sawab to give food to birds....(u know the whole sookhi roti routine?)
she wasnt a vegetarian .....
wth? its sawab to give food to animals...while you kill them and eat them at the same time??
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Yep. According to brahmins, Eating meat means killing animals.Since God has made every creature in this universe so we shouldnot suppose to kill them.Eating vegetables is more like giving respect to the mother nature (the earth) 
According to them …The thought and actions of a person are directly linked to food consumed. Meat is classed as a bad type of food. Eating meat will give rise to bad thoughts and actions. Pure thoughts and actions can be achieved only through observing a strict vegetarian diet. It is said that those who consume meat are of demonic form.
It’s not only meat the don’t eat Garlic, Pepper and some other vegetables (may be Onions) because it gives demonic thoughts to human being.
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what exactly are “pure” thoughts:confused:
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Don’t you water the plants which give you fruits/vegetables?
It is sawab to feed a living creature, be it human or animal.
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an apple cannot feel pain and an apple cannot be abused.
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U sure? Ask an apple tree and I am it will disagree…
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i did … i slammed it to the ground and it showed no expression
but the cat wailed when attacked…
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why would you try to eat cat? 
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the reason I said is that you don’t get sawab only when you feed the animals you (can) eat but ANY animal you feed.
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Thats why these kind of teachings are considered backward and from dark ages.
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For desis, traditionally, food is medicine. You take certain food items/ avoid certain others when inflicted with specific diseases. I don't think this is something that many would disagree with.
The implication is that the food we eat has an affect on us - physically, physiologically and emotionally. In tropical countries at least, some of the food that is eaten, tends to 'heat' up the body resulting in disorders. Hence we eat/ drink something else to 'cool' down the body, particularly during summers.
Ancient Indian medicine classifies various food items into specific categories. One is encouraged / discouraged to consume them depending on one's constitution. Certain food items are reputed to make you 'hot of blood' - angry, emotional and quick to pick up a slight. Certain others do the opposite.
Depending on one's profession, again, one was encouraged/ discouraged to consume specific food stuffs.
Contrary to perceptions in some quarters, very few Indians - less than 10-15% are vegetarian. Brahmins were expected to be sober, not get physical and be tolerant to extremely touch situations. Hence they were required to avoid non-vegetarian food.
The society was primarily agrarian. Hence the importance to cows. In ancient times, the only way to protect organisms key to the agrarian way of life was to deify them - cows, snakes, trees and even rivers. This could have spawned theories and ideas associated with sacredness and "it is said in the holy books" and "it is beneath your status" etc.
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some of our tribal people eat rats as delicay
And Irulas feast on the rats they catch. The meat is a bit like mutton, Veeramani explained calmly.
“It takes 20 rats to create one kilogram of meat, so it should be seen as a real delicacy,” he said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3171759.stm
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We have drifted away from topic.
Crossing border makes a cow less sacred?